Pvt. Ford Calvin King
Born: 1 February 1926 – Cutler, Illinois
Parents: Chester & Dora King
Siblings: 2 sisters, 3 brothers
Home:
– 507 South Eighth Avenue – Maywood, Illinois
Education:
– Emerson Grade School
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1944
Selective Service Registration: 1 February 1944
Contact Person: Dora King – mother
Enlisted:
– 20 June 1944
– U.S. Marine Corps
Training:
– Camp Pendleton, California
– 6th Training Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Command, Fleet Marine Command
– July 1944 – October 1944
Unit: January 1945
– 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division
Engagements:
– Battle of Okinawa
– 1 April 1945 – Marines invade
Killed in Action:
– 4 May 1945
– Okinawa, Japan
Buried:
– Mount Emblem Cemetery – Elmhurst, Illinois
– South Parkway Section: 117½ Grave: 4
Note: Headstone error – states he died in 1944.
