Harold C. Agerholm Filmed this last summer at Mound Cemetery, For five months prior to joining the Marine Corps Reserve on 16 July 1942, he was employed as a multigraph operator for the Rench Manufacturing Company in Racine. He received his recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. Upon completion of his training he was assigned to Headquarters and Service Battery, 4th Battalion, 10th Marines, 2d Marine Division. He embarked for overseas duty on 3 November 1942 and went to New Zealand, where he trained with his battalion in Wellington for eleven months. On 7 July 1944, while serving with the Fourth Battalion, Tenth Marines, Second Marine Division during the Battle of Saipan Private First Class Harold C. Agerholm volunteered to help evacuate the wounded when the Japanese counter-attacked, overriding a neighboring artillery battalion. Using an abandoned ambulance, he made repeated trips for three hours under heavy rifle and mortar fire, single-handedly evacuating approximately 45 causalities. Rushing to help what he thought were other wounded Marines, he was mortally wounded by a Japanese sniper. For his conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Initially buried in the 2d Marine Division cemetery on Saipan, PFC Agerholms remains were reinterred in Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wisconsin, in 1947. In addition to the Jerstad-Agerholm school in Racine, two other significant memorials carried Private Agerholm’s name. There’s the Harold C. Agerholm Memorial Gun Park at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. There was a destroyer USS Agerholm, commissioned in 1946 and decommissioned in 1978, after earning four battle stars for Korean War service and eight for tours off Vietnam. https://youtube/watch?v=zcvOm4YSN8U
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