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Casualty Info
Last Address Detroit
Casualty Date Apr 25, 1951
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Korea, South
Conflict Korean War/CCF Spring Offensive (1951)/Battle of Kwagch'i-Dong
Location of Interment Roseland Park Cemetery - Berkley, Michigan
Korean War/CCF Spring Offensive (1951)/Battle of Kwagch'i-Dong
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Description U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.) at Kwagch'i-Dong, Korea, 29 May 1951.
Actions at the battle; PFC Moreland served as an intelligence scout attached to Company C, in action against enemy aggressor forces. Voluntarily accompanying a rifle platoon in a daring assault against a strongly defended enemy hill position, Pfc. Moreland delivered accurate rifle fire on the hostile emplacement and thereby aided materially in seizing the objective. After the position had been secured, he unhesitatingly led a party forward to neutralize an enemy bunker which he had observed some 400 meters beyond, and moving boldly through a fire-swept area, Almost reached the hostile emplacement when the enemy launched a volley of handgrenades on his group. Quick to act despite the personal danger involved, he kicked several of the grenades off the ridge line where they exploded harmlessly and, while attempting to kick away another, slipped and fell near the deadly missile. Aware that the sputtering grenade would explode before he could regain his feet and dispose of it, he shouted a warning to his comrades, covered the missile with his body and absorbed the full blast of the explosion, but in saving his companions from possible injury or death, was mortally wounded.
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
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Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories Died of Wounds Died April 25, 1951 in Korea
BATTLE ZONE: HWACHON
Private First Class Hatton was a member of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. He was seriously wounded while fighting the enemy in Korea and died of those wounds on April 25, 1951
