Abbe, Loren Leroy, Sgt

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Last Rank
Sergeant
Last Primary MOS
0311-Rifleman
Last MOSGroup
Infantry
Primary Unit
1951-1951, 0311, F Co, 2nd Bn, 7th Marines (2/7)
Service Years
1946 - 1951
Enlisted Collar Insignia
Sergeant

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Home State
Minnesota
Minnesota
Year of Birth
1929
 
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Date of Passing
Dec 13, 1998
 
Location of Interment
Stonewall Jackson Cemetery - Lexington, Virginia

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Serial Number 644747

Silver Star Citation

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Sergeant [then Corporal] Lorren L. Abbe (MCSN: 644747), United States Marine Corps, for gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force while serving with Company F, Second Battalion, Seventh Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Reinforced), in action against the enemy in Korea. On 1 March 1951, near Hongchon, Korea, Sergeant Abbe, squad leader, led his rifle squad across a ridge exposed to intense rifle and machine gun fire in an effort to assist another platoon in taking a steep hill defended by an entrenched enemy force. Upon reaching the lower slope of the objective, only seven men from the other platoon remained effective. After reorganization of the platoon, Sergeant Abbe led an assault echelon in an attempt to take the crest of the hill. A barrage of enemy grenades killed, wounded, and dazed most of the platoon and pinned down Sergeant Abbe's assault squad about forty feet from the crest of the ridge. Although dazed by grenades and painfully wounded in the face by shrapnel, Sergeant Abbe with absolute disregard for his own personal safety went from fire team to fire team reorganizing the men and directing the evacuation of wounded. During this time he was exposed to savage small arms and automatic weapons fire. On the final and successful assault, Sergeant Abbe led a flanking attack which secured the ridge, on which members of his squad killed or wounded nine enemy as they fled down the reverse slope and across a ravine to another fortified position. In the entire action, Sergeant Abbe's squad inflicted five killed and twenty-six wounded casualties upon the enemy, while suffering one killed and one wounded among its own forces. Sergeant Abbe's cool and unselfish leadership in the face of almost certain death and a fanatical enemy was a source of inspiration to all members of his command.

General Orders: Headquarters IX Corps, General Orders No. 45 (April 10, 1951)

   
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  1950-1950, 0311, 1st Bn, 1st Infantry Training Regiment (Cadre)
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1st Bn, 1st Infantry Training Regiment (Cadre)
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1st Infantry Training Regiment (Cadre)
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12 Members Also There at Same Time
1st Infantry Training Regiment (Cadre)

Bebich, John Joseph, SSgt, (1950-1952) 3 0311 Sergeant
Jackson, James, PFC, (1950-1951) 3 0311 Private 1st Class
Aldridge, Robert Lewis, PFC, (1950-1952) 3 0300 Private 1st Class
Golden, Richard, PFC, (1944-1950) 3 0333 Private 1st Class
Moore, Henry Mitchell, PFC, (1950-1952) 3 0300 Private 1st Class
Albert, Henry John, PFC, (1944-1951) 58 5831 Private 1st Class
Davison, Robert Dwight, Cpl, (1949-1951) 99 9900 Private 1st Class
Dean, Elmer Leamond, Sgt, (1949-1953) OF Private 1st Class
Schmickle, Richard Ladell, SSgt, (1950-1954) 99 9900 Private
Swenson, Kenneth G, Sgt, (1948-1953) Sergeant
H&S Co

Zahm, James A, MSgt, (1941-1957) 8511 Staff Sergeant
Weapons Co

Weekly, Dean Vincent, Sgt, (1943-1951) 18 1833 Corporal

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