Robert Taylor
Humboldt Standard
Friday, June 15, 1945 pg.1 “Killed In Action: On Iwo Jima” Cpt. Robert H. Taylor of Eureka was killed during the fighting on Iwo Jima, March 25 when he was hit by a Jap sniper. He was serving in a demolition squad, having volunteered for that branch in the Marine Corps after enlisting in March, 1943. “Tiny” Taylor, as he was known to his friends here because he was six feet, four inches tall, also enlisted his Doberman pinscher, who has been overseas 15 months and is still in service on Iwo Jima. Born in Eureka, Cpl. Taylor when a youth carried a newspaper route for the Humboldt Times and learned to be a pressman in the Times mechanical shop, later working at a pressman for the San Francisco Examiner. Surviving the war hero are his sisters, Mrs. James Maney and Mrs. David Brody of San Francisco; his aunts, Mrs. Archie Devlin of Eureka, Mrs. Jennie Valenti of San Francisco and Mrs. Eliza Spence of Ireland. His mother. Mrs. Mary Taylor of San Francisco, died just two weeks before her son was killed. |