Pvt. James Patrick McFarland Jr.

    - family moved to Maywood in 1925

Parents: James P. McFarland Sr. & Wilhelmina Dupke-McFarland

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown:

    - Maywood, Illinois

        - 212 South Fifth Avenue, Maywood, Illinois

            - family would later live in Cicero, Illinois

Education:

    - Saint James Catholic School

    - Fenwick High School

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Class of 1937

Occupation: 

    - worked for Western Electric Company - Cicero, Illinois

Enlisted: 

    - U. S. Marine Corps Reserve

        - Date Unknown

Inducted:

    - 20 June 1944

        - U.S. Marine Corps

Serial Number: 

Training: 

    - Unknown

Unit: 3rd Marine Division

Engagements:

    - Battle of Iowa Jima

        - Island invaded 19 February 1945

            - 3rd Marines landed along the coast of the center area of island on 24 February 1945

Killed in Action:

    - 16 March 1945 - Iowa Jima

Buried:  All Saints Cemetery - Des Plaines, Illinois

    - Block:  6   Section:  6   Grave: 3

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