Vernon Leroy Castle

World War II
Service #00307868
RankField Music Corporal U.S. Marine Corps
Entered Service From Oklahoma
Date of DeathAugust 17 1942
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
2
Purple Heart
Purple Heart
Notes
FM1C Castle remains have been recovered and identified in 2000. His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.