Walters joined the Marine Corps Reserve on January 21, 1942. He trained at MCRD San Diego and was posted to Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines after boot camp.
Walters was made a PFC on April 10, 1942, as his company sailed for American Samoa aboard the USS Fuller. Though the regiment was ready for action, they would instead spend the next several months performing garrison and guard duty in Samoa – for untested troops, this duty soon became boring. Prayers for action were answered in September, 1942 as the 7th Marines boarded transports and sailed for Guadalcanal, where they would reinforce the First and Fifth Marines.
PFC Walters set foot on Guadalcanal on September 18, and spent the next few days getting a firsthand lesson in life under fire. PFC Walters was killed on September 24, 1942. His battalion had run into strong enemy resistance while patrolling near the Matanikau River; when A/1/7 was pinned down by hidden machine guns, Walters' Company B was hastily sent forward to help – a decision that took the lives of four of them, and wounded a handful more.
James Walters was buried in the jungle near the Matanikau; in the months following the fight, the location of his grave was lost.
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Service No. #354210
Entered the Service From: New York
B Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Father: Mr. Harry J. Walters, 201 Fillmore Avenue; Syracuse, New York. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands).
***I would like to thank Geoffrey Roecker Find A Grave ID 47006169 for adding his photo and bio information to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Buffalo Find A Grave ID 50696055 for updating the plot information on this memorial***
Walters was made a PFC on April 10, 1942, as his company sailed for American Samoa aboard the USS Fuller. Though the regiment was ready for action, they would instead spend the next several months performing garrison and guard duty in Samoa – for untested troops, this duty soon became boring. Prayers for action were answered in September, 1942 as the 7th Marines boarded transports and sailed for Guadalcanal, where they would reinforce the First and Fifth Marines.
PFC Walters set foot on Guadalcanal on September 18, and spent the next few days getting a firsthand lesson in life under fire. PFC Walters was killed on September 24, 1942. His battalion had run into strong enemy resistance while patrolling near the Matanikau River; when A/1/7 was pinned down by hidden machine guns, Walters' Company B was hastily sent forward to help – a decision that took the lives of four of them, and wounded a handful more.
James Walters was buried in the jungle near the Matanikau; in the months following the fight, the location of his grave was lost.
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Service No. #354210
Entered the Service From: New York
B Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Father: Mr. Harry J. Walters, 201 Fillmore Avenue; Syracuse, New York. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands).
***I would like to thank Geoffrey Roecker Find A Grave ID 47006169 for adding his photo and bio information to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Buffalo Find A Grave ID 50696055 for updating the plot information on this memorial***
Walters joined the Marine Corps Reserve on January 21, 1942. He trained at MCRD San Diego and was posted to Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines after boot camp.
Walters was made a PFC on April 10, 1942, as his company sailed for American Samoa aboard the USS Fuller. Though the regiment was ready for action, they would instead spend the next several months performing garrison and guard duty in Samoa – for untested troops, this duty soon became boring. Prayers for action were answered in September, 1942 as the 7th Marines boarded transports and sailed for Guadalcanal, where they would reinforce the First and Fifth Marines.
PFC Walters set foot on Guadalcanal on September 18, and spent the next few days getting a firsthand lesson in life under fire. PFC Walters was killed on September 24, 1942. His battalion had run into strong enemy resistance while patrolling near the Matanikau River; when A/1/7 was pinned down by hidden machine guns, Walters' Company B was hastily sent forward to help – a decision that took the lives of four of them, and wounded a handful more.
James Walters was buried in the jungle near the Matanikau; in the months following the fight, the location of his grave was lost.
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Service No. #354210
Entered the Service From: New York
B Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Father: Mr. Harry J. Walters, 201 Fillmore Avenue; Syracuse, New York. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands).
***I would like to thank Geoffrey Roecker Find A Grave ID 47006169 for adding his photo and bio information to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Buffalo Find A Grave ID 50696055 for updating the plot information on this memorial***
Walters was made a PFC on April 10, 1942, as his company sailed for American Samoa aboard the USS Fuller. Though the regiment was ready for action, they would instead spend the next several months performing garrison and guard duty in Samoa – for untested troops, this duty soon became boring. Prayers for action were answered in September, 1942 as the 7th Marines boarded transports and sailed for Guadalcanal, where they would reinforce the First and Fifth Marines.
PFC Walters set foot on Guadalcanal on September 18, and spent the next few days getting a firsthand lesson in life under fire. PFC Walters was killed on September 24, 1942. His battalion had run into strong enemy resistance while patrolling near the Matanikau River; when A/1/7 was pinned down by hidden machine guns, Walters' Company B was hastily sent forward to help – a decision that took the lives of four of them, and wounded a handful more.
James Walters was buried in the jungle near the Matanikau; in the months following the fight, the location of his grave was lost.
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Service No. #354210
Entered the Service From: New York
B Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Father: Mr. Harry J. Walters, 201 Fillmore Avenue; Syracuse, New York. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group A (Recoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA Place as Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands).
***I would like to thank Geoffrey Roecker Find A Grave ID 47006169 for adding his photo and bio information to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Buffalo Find A Grave ID 50696055 for updating the plot information on this memorial***
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