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PLATOON SGT
DORNIE BYRD REYNOLDS
COMPANY B - 2ND AMPHIBIAN TRACTOR BATTALION
2ND MARINE DIVISION
FMF
ONE OF TARAWA'S UNRECOVERED
DEAD
ARRIVED AT TARAWA ABOARD THE USS MONROVIA
Sgt. Dornie B. Reynolds' family has information
that he was killed when his LVT
struck a Japanese land mine at Tarawa. Their records contain information that
Sgt. Reynolds and Captain Thomas B. Royster
were in two different LVTs
that both hit land mines almost simutaneously and only a few yards apart.
THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION
IS NOT KNOWN
THE DOCUMENT WAS FOUND AMONG FAMILY RECORDS
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Byrd Reynolds Platoon Sergeant U.S. Marine Corps 00256252 Entered the Service from: Maryland Died: November 22, 1943 Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Hawaii Awards: Purple Heart |
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THE NAME "DORNICE" ON THE CROSS IS AN ERROR - HIS FIRST NAME WAS "DORNIE"
THIS IS ONE OF THE MEMORIAL CEMETERIES WHERE A CROSS
WAS PLACED TO HONOR EACH OF THE KNOWN DEAD AT TARAWA
THE CROSSES DO NOT ACTUALLY REFLECT THE LOCATION OF THE REMAINS