Haig Sarafian

World War II

Source Documents

Record	Events	Title	Source Website	Type	Created
PFC Haig Sarafian	Birth, Burial, Death		Find a Grave	Fgv Document
PFC Haig Sarafian	Birth, Burial, Death		Find a Grave	Fgv Document
HaigSarafianUSMC.jpg			Fold3	Image	Jul 22, 2019
Pennsylvania - Page 54		US, WWII Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualty List, 1946	Fold3	Image	Nov 5, 2013
1st Battalion, Marines Ledger, 11 Sep 1944 - 14 Sep 1944			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
Original Silver Star Citation for PFC Haig Sarafian			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
Revised Posthumous Silver Star Citation for PFC Haig Sarafian			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
17 Who Fled Kis-Lyn Caught			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
5 Youth Escape Kis-Lyn School			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
Arrest Youths			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
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USMC-M-Peleliu-p89.jpeg			Fold3	Image	Apr 11, 2021
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Sarafian, Haig		US, WWII Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualty List, 1946	Fold3	Child Record	Nov 5, 2013
Haig Sarafian	Burial, Death, Military Service, Other, People	US, American Battle Monuments Commission, 1914-1950	Fold3	Index Record	Apr 8, 2013
Haig Sarafian		US, Marine Corps Casualty Indexes, 1940–1958	Fold3	Index Record	Mar 23, 2017
Sarafian, Haig		US, Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019	Fold3	Index Record	Jul 2, 2020
Sarafian, Haig		US, Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019	Fold3	Index Record	Jul 5, 2020
Sarafian, Haig		US, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, 1941-1975	Fold3	Index Record	May 27, 2021

Source URLs

URL	Events	Description
Pvt. Charles W. Wartell
awarded the Medal of Honor
suffered a blast concussion
evacuated to the USS Leedstown
memorial marker
memorialized on the Walls of the Missing
naming their son Haig
https://www.donnaesposito.com
++www.storiesbehindthestars.org++
1930 U.S. Federal Census at Ancestry
1940 U.S. Federal Census at Ancestry
History of Kis-Lyn School: “County school for boys educated, rehabilitated juveniles”
William Kashatus for The Citizen’s Voice
Pennsylvania, Veteran Compensation Application Files, WWII, 1950-1966
U.S.M.C. Muster Rolls, 1943-1946, via Ancestry.com
U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
Haig Sarafian at Find-A-Grave (memorial at Massachusetts National Cemetery)
Haig Sarafian at Find-A-Grave (memorial at Manila American Cemetery)
Administrative Ledger Of 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st First Marine Division - Pavuvu, Peleliu, And Okinawa (Harry Thetford)
CONDITION RED: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II
Bougainville and the Northern Solomons, Major John N. Rentz, USMCR, 1946
The Assault on Peleliu, Major F. O. Hough, USMC, 1950
Among Heroes: A Marine Rifle Company on Peleliu, First Sergeant Jack R. Ainsworth USMC, ed. Ambassador Laurence Pope, 2011
“Eight Days in Hell”, Col. Richard D. Camp, USMC (Ret.), Naval History Magazine, Vol 33, No. 5, October 2019
Longer and Longer Shadows: My Search For a Missing Marine by Donna Esposito
"Today on Peleliu" - 75th Anniversary video by Bill Francis
75th Anniversary Tribute to PFC Haig Sarafian at White Beach by Donna Esposito (filmed by Bill Francis)