Tuck, Charles Franklin, PFC

Fallen

Service Photo

Service Details

Final Rank
Private 1st Class

Last MOS
745-Rifleman

Last MOSGroup
WWII SSN/MOS

Primary Unit
1945-1945, 745, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines (1/27)

Service Years
1943 - 1945

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Texas

Year of Birth
1924

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Casualty Info

Home Town Naples	Last Address Dalton
Casualty Date Mar 09, 1945
Cause KIA-Killed in Action	Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Japan
Location of Interment Dalton Cemetery - Dalton, Texas	Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	1945, World War II Fallen

Ribbon Bar

Boot Camp/Officer Training School


	1943, Boot Camp (San Diego, CA)

Unit Assignments


	1944-1944, 745, Headquarters & Service Company (H&S), 1st Battalion, 27th Marines (1/27)
	1945-1945, 745, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines (1/27)

Formal Schools and Courses


	1943-1943, USMC Parachute School (Camp Gillespie San Diego, California)

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1941-1945 World War II/American Theater
	1945-1945 Western Pacific Campaign (1944-45)/Battle of Iwo Jima

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

PFC Tuck entered the Marine Corps ion 29 April 1943. He was trained as a parachutist in Company B, Parachute Training School, Camp Gillespie, San Diego, California, July 1943-January 1944. (Parachute program ended.)

Then assigned to H&S and I Company, 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division, FMF at Camp Pendleton, California in January 1944.

His brother, Richard, was in the PTO at this time and on Iwo Jima. They apparently saw one another at one point before PFC Tuck was killed.