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Tarawa Burial:
#Marines from the Marine Barracks Washington 8th & I and the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, participate in the full honors funeral of U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Anthony Guerriero in Section 60 of #ArlingtonNationalCemetery, Arlington, Virginia, earlier today.
Assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division in November 1943, Guerriero died when his division attempted to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll from the Japanese during #WorldWarII.
Though the #BattleOfTarawa lasted several days, Guerriero died on the second day of battle, Nov. 21, 1943. Initially, after the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company began conducting remains recovery operations on Betio Island. By 1949, all remains yet to be identified were interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
In October 2016, the Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency disinterred Tarawa Unknown X-049 from the Punchbowl and sent the remains to the laboratory for analysis. These remains were identified as Guerriero through mitochondrial DNA that matched his family, as well as dental records.
#HonorThem
www.arlingtoncemetery.mil
| Date Taken: | 11.14.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 11.17.2017 11:39 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 566253 |
| VIRIN: | 171117-A-zz998-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_105087843 |
| Length: | 00:07:10 |
| Location: | ARLINGTON, US |
| Downloads: | 28 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 28 |
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