This Marine is finally coming home nearly 80 years after his death at the Battle of Tarawa
Theresa Braine, New York Daily News
Sep 10, 2020 12:02 PM EDT
He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home.
But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII.
He was one of 1,000 servicemen killed in the bloody Battle of Tarawa in 1943. Tarawa is part of the Gilbert Islands, which lie about halfway between Hawaii and Papua New Guinea.
Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr.
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