Schaede

Born: 24 March 1921 - Maywood, Illinois

Parents: Emil L. Schaede & Edna M. Schlager-Schaede

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Home:

- 2010 South Third Avenue - Maywood, Illinois

Education:

- Garfield School

- Proviso Township High School

- Class of 1941

Occupation: Taylor Pipe Forge Company

Enlisted:

- 27 November 1942 - U.S. Marines

Serial Number: 00498853

Training:

- Camp Gillespie, California

- Camp Elliott, California

Unit: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division

Stationed: Wellington, New Zealand

- joined the division as a replacement

- division remained in New Zealand - 10 February 1943 to 1 November 1943

Engagements:

- Battle of Tarawa - Gilbert Islands

- over 200 ships composed invasion force

- Marines landed - 20 November 1943

- invasion forces took heavy artillery and mortar fire
- landed on Beito Island

Killed in Action:

- 20 November 1943

        - first wave of invasion force had 75% casualties
        - many of the Marines were killed the moment the ramp went down on the LCVPs
            - those killed never stepped out of the LCVPs

Memorial:

- Honolulu Memorial Courts of the Missing

- National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific- Honolulu, Hawaii

- over 100 members of the 2nd Marines are buried in graves marked "Unknowns"

Note:

            - June 2015 - grave with the remains of 35 Marines discovered by History Flight Inc.
            - 6 May 2016 - The remains of Roland Schaede were identified by the Department of Defense.
            - 17 June 2016 - Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency makes public announcement that his
              remains were identified

Medals:

    - Purple Heart
Note:
    - 14 September 2017, the remains of Pfc. Roland E. Schaede were reburied in Union Cemetery, St.
Charles, Illinois.
    - rosette will be placed in front of his name to indicate his remains were recovered and identified at the
      Courts of the Missing in Honolulu, Hawaii