Stauff, Harold, CWO2

Deceased
 
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Last Rank
Chief Warrant Officer 2
Last Primary MOS
3502-Motor Transport Officer
Last MOSGroup
Motor Transport
Primary Unit
1956-1957, 3510, 8th Tank Bn
Service Years
1936 - 1957
Official/Unofficial USMC Certificates
Cold War Certificate
Officer Collar Insignia
Chief Warrant Officer 2

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Home State
Rhode Island
Rhode Island
Year of Birth
1913
 
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Contact Info
Home Town
So. Attleboro, MA
Last Address
California
Date of Passing
Jun 12, 1974
 

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Marine Gunner USMC Retired Pin WW II Honorable Discharge Pin US Marines Corps Honorable Discharge

US Army Honorable Discharge


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 Additional Information
Last Known Activity:

Camping with family in the mountains in California when struck down with a heart attack. No medical assistance was available in the area.

   
Other Comments:

Survived many WWII battles in the Pacific Islands and contracting malaria.

Participated in combat in the Korean War.

Retired as a Proud Marine with 20 years in the Corps.

   

  1942-1945, 5th Marine Division
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5th Marine Division

The 5th Marine Division was a United States Marine Corps infantry division which was activated on 11 November 1943 (officially activated on 21 January 1944) at Camp Pendleton, California during World War II. The 5th Division saw its first combat action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 where it sustained the highest number of casualties of the three Marine divisions of the V Amphibious Corps (invasion force). The 5th Division was to be part of the planned invasion of the Japan homeland before Japan surrendered. Assault troops of the 5th Division were included in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the V Amphibious Corps for extraordinary heroism on Iwo Jima from 19 to 28 February 1945. The 5th Division was deactivated on 5 February 1946.
 

The 5th Division was ordered to be reactivated on 1 March 1966 at Camp Pendleton, California, during the Vietnam War. The division, beginning with the reactivation of Regimental Landing Team 26 (RLT 26), was expected to be fully manned within one year; the 5th Division was never in command of the 26th Marine Regiment (26th Marines) in the war. In December, all three infantry battalions of the 26th Marines were fighting in Vietnam attached to the 3rd Marine Division. By June 1967, the 5th Division was ready to deploy anywhere. It was never intended that the 5th Division would go overseas. It was a force in readiness. But in February 1968, General William C. Westmoreland, U.S. Army, commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, asked for help because of the all-out Communist Tet Offensive. The 27th Marine Regiment (27th Marines), 5th Marine Division, was airlifted out on 48 hours notice, with 3,700 Marines. In September, it became the first major combat unit to come home from the Vietnam War. The 5th Marine Division formally deactivated on 26 November 1969.
 

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USMC Division
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5th Marine Division

Bourke, Thomas, LtGen, (1917-1946) Major General
Rockey, Keller E, LtGen, (1913-1950) Major General
Hermle, Leo D, LtGen, (1917-1949) 99 9903 Brigadier General
Beckett, John Wesley, BGen, (1918-1949) 3 0302 Lieutenant Colonel
Berkeley, James P, LtGen, (1927-1965) 25 2502 Lieutenant Colonel
Butler, John Augustus, LtCol, (1934-1945) Lieutenant Colonel
Collins, William R., MGen, (1935-1966) Lieutenant Colonel
Pollock, Daniel Carroll, Col, (1936-1964) 3 0302 Lieutenant Colonel
Robertson, Donn, LtGen, (1938-1972) Lieutenant Colonel
Dollins, Raymond Willis, Maj, (1939-1945) 00X Major
Swanson, Emmet Oscar, Col, (1940-1945) 21 2102 Major
Caldwell, Frank, Col, (1942-1973) 3 0302 Captain
Eusey, Charles Jacob, Capt, (1936-1945) Captain
Gray, Philip R., Capt, (1944-1945) 3 0302 Captain
Haynes, Fred, MGen, (1942-1977) 3 0302 Captain
McCahill, Robert Lester, Capt, (1942-1945) Captain
McDermott, James S., Capt, (1944-1945) 8 0802 Captain
Musch, Warren, Capt, (1943-1946) Captain
Nolan, Michael Earl, Maj, (1941-1963) 18 1801 Captain
Van Beest, William, Capt, (1943-1945) 3 0302 Captain
Boisture, William, LtCol, (1942-1946) First Lieutenant
Buckland, Irving Francis, Capt, (1936-1957) OF 4000 First Lieutenant
Callahan, Francis H., Cpl, (1943-1950) 13 1302 First Lieutenant
Cona, Angelo, 1stLt, (1944-1945) First Lieutenant
Mahoney, Thomas G., 1stLt, (1944-1945) 3 0302 First Lieutenant
Tuttle, Albert Theodore, 1stLt, (1943-1946) 3 0302 First Lieutenant
Wells, John Keith, Maj, (1942-1959) 3 0302 First Lieutenant
Blechinger, Daniel Desalles, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 7314 Second Lieutenant
Drinker, Sandwith, 1stLt, (1942-1945) 0302 Second Lieutenant
Fogelsong, Wilfred Hugh, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) Second Lieutenant
Garcia, Alberto, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Gelshenen, Martin L., 2ndLt, (1942-1945) 3 0302 Second Lieutenant
Ginsburg, Daniel, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Harrington, Charles Edwin, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Hutchcroft, Lester E, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Lamport, Harry Bowman, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Leach, Edmund Lyons, 2ndLt, (1942-1945) OF 1542 Second Lieutenant
Leman, Craig Billings, 2ndLt, (1942-1946) Second Lieutenant
O'Brien, James Milton, 2ndLt, (1944-1945) 0301 Second Lieutenant
Richardson, Obert Carmen, 1stLt, (1941-1945) Second Lieutenant
Geraghty, Ennis James, WO, (1918-1945) OF Warrant Officer
Hatch, Norman, Maj, (1940-1979) 46 4671 Warrant Officer
George, Ray, SgtMaj, (1930-1957) 99 9999 First Sergeant
Barnes, William, GySgt, (1941-1945) Gunnery Sergeant
Moses, David, GySgt, (1942-1946) 0341 Gunnery Sergeant
Rea, Clarence, GySgt, (1940-1946) OF 521 Gunnery Sergeant
Roundy, Nathan James, GySgt, (1940-1945) Gunnery Sergeant
Waldron, Eldrige, GySgt, (1938-1945) 3 0341 Gunnery Sergeant
Henderson, Donald, SSgt, (1941-1946) 3 0311 Staff Sergeant
Penner, Wallce, Cpl, (1941-1945) OF 566 Staff Sergeant
Putnam, Robert Joseph, SSgt, (1942-1945) 0 00E Staff Sergeant
Putnam, Robert Joseph, SSgt, (1942-1945) OF 322 Staff Sergeant
Weathers, Earl, TSgt, (1937-1945) Technical Sergeant
Winne, James, SSgt, (1941-1945) OF 776 Staff Sergeant
Serral, Frederick A, SSgt, (1940-1946) 3 0369 Staff Sergeant
Balducci, Paul Bernardo, PltSgt, (1937-1945) 3 0369 Platoon Sergeant
Benally, John Ashi, Sgt, (1942-1945) OF 642 Sergeant
Brennion, Carl Joseph, Sgt, (1943-1946) 0 00E Sergeant
Catizone, Charles C, Sgt, (1940-1945) OF 585 Sergeant

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