PFC Roland Everett 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: U.S. Engineering Department of Camp Callan, California
Selective Service Registration: 1 July 1942
Contact Person: E. M. Schaede – mother
Residence: Federal Hotel – 237 F Street – San Diego, Califonia
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
– the 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
– the mission was to secure the island the Japanese airstrip in the Tarawa Atoll
Killed in Action:
– 20 November 1943
– the 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 – a grave with the remains of 35 Marines discovered by History Flight Inc.
– 6 May 2016 – The remains of PFC Roland E. Schaede were identified by the Department of Defense.
– 17 June 2016 – Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency made a public announcement that his remains were identified
Medals:
– Purple Heart
Reburial:
– 14 September 2017
– the remains of PFC Roland E. Schaede were reburied in Union Cemetery, St. Charles, Illinois
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
– a rosette was placed in front of his name at the Courts of the Missing in Honolulu, Hawaii
– the rosette indicates his remains were recovered and identified
