WW2 Okinawa Fallen - Ralph Davis, marine artilleryman + Dragnet star

PFC Ralph Davis served in a marine artillery battery in Okinawa.
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Ralph Francis Davis never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.

If you have enjoyed reading the stories of the WW2 fallen, Can you help write some stories? It's a big project. The more help, the better.  Announcing "The Stories Behind the Stars", see https://www.storiesbehindthestars.org. This crowd-sourced national project has the goal of compiling stories of all 400,000+ of the US World War 2 fallen in one free-to-access central database.  Anyone visiting a war memorial or gravesite will be able to scan the name of the fallen with a smartphone and his story will appear on the phone.

Ralph was born on April 2, 1920 in St. Joseph, Missouri. His parents Edgar and Neva were also both born in Missouri. His father worked as a butcher. His parents divorced in the 1920s. His mother worked as a phone operator. Ralph had one younger brother and one younger sister. By 1940 Ralph had completed four years of high school. He had married Dorothy May Young and was living in Fargo, North Dakota, where he found work as a butcher.

He volunteered for the US Marine Corps in November 1942. He became a private first class in  Battery C, 3rd Howitzer Battalion. I am not sure which Marine regiment and division this was with. It was either the 1st Marine Division, 2nd Marine Division or 6th Marine Division which were all part of the Okinawa Campaign.

PFC Davis was killed on April 28, 1945 while the Americans were challenging the Japanese for the southern highlands.

His grave is at Riverside Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.

Thank you PFC Davis for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Ralph.

JACK WEBB
Jack Webb, the actor best know for staring in the radio and TV series Dragnet, was born on the exact same day as Ralph Davis. Webb was born in Santa Monica, California. His father left his family before Jack was born. He grew up with a single mom in Los Angeles.

Webb joined the army during World War II and volunteered for the Army Air Forces. After washing out of flight training he was given a hardship discharge because his mother and grandmother needed financial support.

https://travsd.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/the-wonders-of-jack-webb/ 

After the war he found acting work in radio and movies. He is best known for his roll as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet, first on radio and then on TV. He died in 1982.

Last year on this date I profiled Normandy fallen George Davis, 82nd Airborne Division. You can read about George here.

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