James E. Posey
Private First Class, U.S. Army

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James E. Posey

Private First Class
U.S. Army

Service #36945557

Assigned to the
264th Quartermaster Bakery Company
Supporting the Invasion of Iwo Jima

Died Non-Battle (DNB)
April 30, 1945
Laid to Rest at Plot M, Row 0, Grave 880
Honolulu Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii

James E. Posey Grave Marker Hawaii

Awards:

American Campaign Service Medal
American Campaign
Service Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific
Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
World War II
Victory Medal


PFC James E. Posey is believed to have entered the U.S. Army from Illinois
and his loss is Recorded in the
US Army World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing,
St. Clair County, Illinois, Page 83.

Other online resources:
WWII black vet fought over there, then back here