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CORPORAL

CLIFFORD WACO BURTON

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY
1ST BATTALION 6TH MARINE REGIMENT
SECOND MARINE DIVISION
FMF

CORPORAL BURTON SERVED IN COMBAT AGAINST JAPANESE FORCES

DURING THE FOLLOWING BATTLES

GUADALCANAL - From 12 JAN 1943 to 08 FEB 1943 TARAWA- From 20 NOV 1943 to 23 NOV 1943 SAIPAN - From 15 JUN 1944 to 16 JUN 1944 WOUNDED AT SAIPAN

 

THE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWN BELOW ARE FROM

THE CLIFFORD W. BURTON COLLECTION

COURTESY OF HIS DAUGHTER

MS. NANCY VETTER

CLIFFORD WACO BURTON AND HIS FRIEND ROBERT BARNES NEW ZEALAND 1943

LEFT FRONT - JOSEPH COLLINS RIGHT FRONT - FRANCIS M. BOGGS LEFT REAR - ARTHUR G. KIRCHHOEFER RIGHT REAR - CLIFFORD W. BURTON NEW ZEALAND 1943	DORIS E. BANKHEAD & HARRIS KENT DUFF 1ST BN - 6TH MARINES NEW ZEALAND 1943 PFC DUFF WAS KIA AT TARAWA 22NOV43 HIS REMAINS WERE NEVER RECOVERED
JAMES C. WERLINGER B COMPANY - 1ST BN - 6TH MARINES NEW ZEALAND 1943	JAMES PORTER B COMPANY - 1ST BN - 6TH MARINES NEW ZEALAND 1943
NAMES OF MEN AND LOCATION ARE UNKNOWN PROBABLY 1ST BN 6TH MAR AT GUADALCANAL	IN PHOTO AT LEFT - THE MAN AT THE FAR LEFT IS WEARING A JAPANESE NAMBU PISTOL HOLSTER

THIS PHOTO IS NOT FROM THE CLIFFORD W. BURTON COLLECTION

HOWEVER -- IT IS A PHOTO OF THE SAME DORIS E. BANKHEAD WHO IS SHOWN IN THE BURTON COLLECTION ABOVE

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN ON SAIPAN IN 1944

PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEN

Jim Hildebrand
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