Marine Corporal Henry Andregg comes home
WCRB reports that Marine Corporal Henry Andregg will come home after 75 years from Betio Island. He was assigned to Company C, 2nd Amphibious Tractor Btn, 2nd Marine Division before he fell in the first wave of Marines to assault the Japanese defenses on that island.
He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, and was memorialized as one of the missing Marines from the Battle of Tarawa at The Honolulu Memorial National Cemetery of the Pacific.
Funeral services will be held in at The Reed Funeral Home on Friday, August 25, 2017 at 10:00 am CDT. Cpl. Andregg will be escorted by 1st Sergeant William Conner, of Battery M, 3rd Btn, 14th Marine Division Burial will follow at Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors provided.
The family will receive friends on Thursday, August 24, from 3:00 until 7:00 pm CDT. Online condolences can be made at www.reedfamilyfh.com
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sequatchie Valley Honor Guard, P.O. Box 786, Jasper, TN, 37347
Hondo told us that he’d been identified last Spring.
According to Stars & Stripes, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has ordered flags there lowered to half-staff on Friday to honor Corporal Andregg’s “ultimate sacrifice”.
Category: We Remember
Welcome home, Marine.
Rest in Peace, Corporal Henry Andregg.
Rest easy there Devil, you made it home.
Semper Fi big brother. At six foot how did you not stick out?! Your balls matched your height. Fair winds and following seas Marine. Welcome home.
Welcome home, Marine. You were gone but never forgotten. Rest In Peace.
Rest in the arms of the Lord, “no greater love hath a man, than to lay down his life for a friend”….or a country! Semper Fi
Rest in Peace Brother. Stand down,Home from the Sea.
Rest in Peace, Marine. Welcome home.
Welcome home, Corporal.
Rest well.
The First Assault Wave at Tarawa….
And then we have four Stolen Valor pukes on the home page…
To me, there is just something just wrong about that.
They aren’t worth the sweat off this man’s considerably enlarged stainless/titanium alloy balls…
Godspeed to you Marine and prayers for your family.
It is an honor to hear your story…
Mission Accomplished.
I could not have said it any better Thunderstixx.
Couldn’t have said it better.
Welcome home, Marine. Semper Fi!