NAME: Earl P. Hawkins |
NICKNAME: — |
SERVICE NUMBER: 399634 |
|||||
HOME OF RECORD: Nettleton, MS |
NEXT OF KIN: Unknown |
||||||
DATE OF BIRTH: 1/25/1921 |
SERVICE DATES: 1942 – 1945 1951 – 1953 |
DATE OF DEATH: — |
|||||
CAMPAIGN | UNIT | MOS | RATE | RESULT | |||
Roi-Namur | HQ/1/24 | 835 | Sergeant | Rear Echelon | |||
Saipan | HQ/1/24 | 835 | Sergeant | Rear Echelon | |||
Tinian | HQ/1/24 | 835 | Sergeant | Rear Echelon | |||
Iwo Jima | HQ/1/24 | 821 | Sergeant | Rear Echelon | |||
INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS: — |
LAST KNOWN RANK: Staff Sergeant (WWII) Technical Sergeant (Korea) |
Biography coming soon.
![Earl Hawkins, around 1943. Initially angered that he was "one of the first in and among the last out of the battalion without being in combat," he later concluded "it was God's blessing that [I] did not have to kill or be killed."](https://1stbattalion24thmarines.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/hawkins.jpg?w=1152)