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Full Honors Repatriation for U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Edwin W. Jordan in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, April 9, 2018.
In November 1943, Jordan was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th
Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force which landed
against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa
Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over
several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and
Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were
virtually annihilated. Jordan died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20,
1943.
The battle of Tarawa was a huge victory for the U.S. military because the
Gilbert Islands provided the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet a platform from which
to launch assaults on the Marshall and Caroline Islands to advance their
Central Pacific Campaign against Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the fighting on Tarawa, U.S. service members
who died in the battle were buried in a number of battlefield cemeteries on
the island. In 1946 and 1947, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration
Company conducted remains recovery operations on Betio Island, but Jordan's
remains were not recovered. On Feb. 28, 1949, a military review board
declared Jordan's remains non-recoverable.
In July 2017, through a partnership with History Flight, Inc., the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) used
advanced investigative techniques to locate further areas believed to
contain the remains of men buried on Tarawa. The recovered remains were
sent to the laboratory for analysis.
To identify Jordan's remains, scientists from DPAA used dental,
anthropological and chest radiograph comparison analysis, which matched his
records, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, more than 400,000
died during the war. Currently there are 72,936 service members
(approximately 26,000 are assessed as possibly-recoverable) still
unaccounted for from World War II. Jordan's name is recorded on the Tablets
of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, along with
the others killed or lost in WWII. A rosette will be placed next to his name
to indicate he has been accounted for.
Arlington National Cemetery information at www.arlingtoncemetery.mil.
| Date Taken: | 04.09.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 04.09.2018 16:01 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 593482 |
| VIRIN: | 180409-A-ZZ998-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_105490414 |
| Length: | 00:03:49 |
| Location: | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, VA, US |
| Downloads: | 20 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 20 |
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