Lt. Daniel Francis Casey kept a photo album of his time in the US Marine Corp.  His photos include pictures from a cruise on the USS Wichita to South America as well as training in the states.  As his son, I have added documents from his military career and photos from his dating and marrying my mother Ms. Eleanor Hattwick Adkins (then Eleanor Pearl Hattwick).  Also included are photos from letters home to his new wife and son and Marine reunions which include members of A company 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division.  A-1-9 was the unit he died in on March 6, 1945.  Two sections include his burial in Arlington National Cemetery as a photo series and a movie of the funeral. The last section is a history of the USS Wichita. Contact Daniel Casey Adkins via email  daniel.adkins@mac.com

Biography: 2nd Lieutenant Daniel F. Casey was born July 20, 1922 in Gleasonton, Pennsylvania.  Joined USMC on January 13, 1940.  Training locations include Parris Island, South Carolina; Portsmouth, Virginia; and Quantico, Virginia.  Became an officer on January 12, 1944.

Served aboard the USS Wichita, USS Wasp, USS Quincy, USS Tuscaloosa, USS Idaho, USS Massachusetts, and USS Washington.  Participated in the naval engagement at Casablanca,   Morocco. Served at Iceland and on convoy duties in the North Atlantic.  As an enlisted Marine he served as Admiral Giffen’s orderly in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He was with the USS Wichita in engagements in the South Pacific and Aleutian Islands.  He served with the 34th Replacement Draft and joined the 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division on March 2.  He was killed in action on March 6, serving with A-1-9 on  Iwo Jima.

Military awards include the Navy Cross, Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal.