RAIDERS Barr, Woodrow Wilson

Special Men
By Dennis Foley

Craig Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Barr
  • FORENAME
Woodrow Wilson
  • UNIT
1st Raider Battalion (Company C)
  • RANK
Private First Class
  • NUMBER
355620
  • AWARD
Silver Star
  • PLACE
Tulagi, Solomon Islands (7th August 1942)
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
KIA - See Roll of Honour
 

ROLL OF HONOUR:

https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/barr-woodrow-wilson.58249/

CITATION:

Silver Star : The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Private First Class Woodrow Wilson Barr (MCSN: 355620), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity as a member of Company C, First Marine Raider Battalion, in action during the attack on Tulagi, Solomon Islands, on 7 August 1942. Private Barr, a member of a small detachment ordered to envelope a hostile machine gun position, persisted in his advance against the enemy although exposed to severe small arms fire until he, himself, was killed, thereby assisting a great measure in the final destruction of the enemy machine gun group.

WEB LINKS:

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/35222

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101859458/woodrow-wilson-barr
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