Elton Murphree

Birthplace: Lambert, MS

Branch of Service: Marine Corps

Unit: K Co 27th Mar 5th Div

Theater of Operation: Pacific

Enlisted / Commissioned: Nov 20, 1942

Discharged: Jan 7, 1946

Honored By: Wife Eda Mae Murphree

I served in the South Pacific. I was wounded on Iwo Jima and was there when the flag was raised. I knew Ira Hayes who was one of the flag raisers. When the war ended I went to Japan for Occupation Duty. I left Japan on December 7, 1945 for Camp Pendleton, California, where I was discharged on January 7, 1946.