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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Fagart" data-source="post: 27837" data-attributes="member: 4210"><p><strong>Jimmy Wilson Corzine</strong></p><p></p><p>PFC. JIMMY WILSON CORZINE WAS BORN 5 SEP. 1921 IN CONCORD, NC. FOR HIS ACTIONS AT GUADALCANAL ON THE HILL OVERLOOKING THE AIRFIELD, ON THE NIGHT OF SEP. 13-14, 1942, THE NIGHT IN WHICH HE WAS KILLED, JIMMY WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS.</p><p></p><p>NOTE: JIMMY WAS BURIED ON GUADALCANAL AND THEN HIS REMAINS WERE LATER MOVED TO THE "PUNCH BOWL" CEMETERY IN 1949 WHEN THE CEMETERY WAS OPENED. A ENGRAVING MISTAKE WAS MADE ON HIS MARKER. FIRST, HE WAS NOT GIVEN RECOGNITION FOR HAVING RECEIVED THE NAVY CROSS AND THE DATE OF HIS DEATH IS LISTED AS 14 SEP 1943. HE WAS KIA IN 1942.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Fagart, post: 27837, member: 4210"] [b]Jimmy Wilson Corzine[/b] PFC. JIMMY WILSON CORZINE WAS BORN 5 SEP. 1921 IN CONCORD, NC. FOR HIS ACTIONS AT GUADALCANAL ON THE HILL OVERLOOKING THE AIRFIELD, ON THE NIGHT OF SEP. 13-14, 1942, THE NIGHT IN WHICH HE WAS KILLED, JIMMY WAS AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS. NOTE: JIMMY WAS BURIED ON GUADALCANAL AND THEN HIS REMAINS WERE LATER MOVED TO THE "PUNCH BOWL" CEMETERY IN 1949 WHEN THE CEMETERY WAS OPENED. A ENGRAVING MISTAKE WAS MADE ON HIS MARKER. FIRST, HE WAS NOT GIVEN RECOGNITION FOR HAVING RECEIVED THE NAVY CROSS AND THE DATE OF HIS DEATH IS LISTED AS 14 SEP 1943. HE WAS KIA IN 1942. [/QUOTE]
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