Marine Accounted For From World War II (Randall, D.)
By DPAA Public Affairs WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2018 - Marine Corps Sgt. Dwight W. Randall, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 13, 2018. In November 1943, Randall was a member of Company C, 2nd Amphibian Tractor Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands, in an attempt to secure the island. Over several days of intense fighting at Tarawa, approximately 1,000 Marines and Sailors were killed and more than 2,000 were wounded, but the Japanese were virtually annihilated. Randall died on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943. DPAA is grateful to the Department of Veterans Affairs for their partnership in this mission. Randall's name is recorded on the Courts of the Missing at the Punchbowl, along with the others who are missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. For more information about DPAA, visit www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa, or call 703-699-1420/1169. Randall’s personnel profile can be viewed at
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