- SURNAME
Fuller
- FORENAME
Robert Greene
- UNIT
1st Marine Parachute Battalion ("Company C")
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
279327
- AWARD
Navy Cross
- PLACE
Gavutu, Solomon Islands 7th August 1942
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 26.05.1921 Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
father Virgil Winthrop Fuller (1902-1981)
mother Mary Francis (nee Diece) (1903-1974)
unemployed on draft card
resided 26 Hanson Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (draft card)
27.10.1944 draft card Boston, Massachusetts
14.09.1942 WIA Solomon Islands
wife Minnie (nee Overton) (1924-1998)
author "Danger! Marines At Work" (Fiction)
died 13.08.2003 Newbury Port, Massachusetts, USA (Aged 82)
CITATION:
Navy Cross : The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Private First Class Robert Green Fuller (MCSN: 279327), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty while serving with the FIRST Parachute Battalion, FIRST Marine Division, during the assault on enemy Japanese forces at Gavutu, Solomon Islands, on 7 August 1942. When the progress of his unit was retarded by heavy opposition, Private First Class Fuller, with a comrade, displayed courageous disregard for his imminent danger by attacking a heavily fortified gun emplacement from which the deadly fire was emanating. Charging forward against the withering blasts of hostile weapons, he unhesitatingly engaged the enemy in perilous hand-to-hand combat and, with the other Marine, killed all eight of the Japanese, thereby annihilating a strong and hazardous obstacle. His daring aggressiveness and valiant devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
