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Rank/Rate |
Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps |
Service Number |
291466 |
Birth Date |
May 19, 1921 |
From |
Red Jacket, West Virginia |
Decorations |
Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal |
Command |
2nd Raider Battalion, carried aboard
USS
Argonaut |
Loss Date |
October 16, 1942 |
Location |
Kwajalein |
Circumstances |
Captured on Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll,
taken to Kwajalein and executed |
Remarks |
Navy Cross Citation, written before the actual
circumstances of his death were known:
The President of the United
States takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross
(Posthumously) to Dallas H. Cook (291466), Sergeant, U.S.
Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous
devotion to duty while serving as a member of a volunteer
boat crew in Company B, SECOND Marine Raider Battalion,
during the Marine Raider Expedition against the
Japanese-held island of Makin in the Gilbert Islands on 17
and 18 August 1942. Fully aware of the hazards
of an
imminent enemy air attack, and with complete disregard for
his own life, Sergeant Cook, with four others, volunteered
to take a boat
to a point just outside a reef and shoot a
line ashore to assist in evacuating those men remaining on
the beach. Caught on the sea, he
was defeated in his valiant
efforts by the violent strafing of his boat by withering
enemy machine-gun fire. His great personal valor and loyal
spirit of self-sacrifice were in keeping with the finest
traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly
gave up his life in the service of his country. |
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