THE HEROIC DEATH OF JOHN DURY NEW OF MOBILE, ALABAMA A PRIVATE FIRST CLASS IN THE U.S MARINE CORPS.

 John Dury New of Mobile, Alabama, a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on September 25, 1944,  on Peleliu Island, Palau Islands.



New enlisted in the Marine Corps on December 8, 1941, the first Mobile, AL man to enlist after Pearl Harbor. On December 12, he joined the 4th Recruit Battalion at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, and following recruit training served at Quantico, Virginia.

In September 1942, Pvt New joined the 4th Replacement Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, Training Center, in San Diego, California. He sailed for duty overseas the following month and participated in the Guadalcanal campaign as a member of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. 

He shared in the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to the Division on Guadalcanal. He later took part in the seizure and occupation of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, and in the defense of the airfield near Cape Gloucester.

Promoted to private first class in April 1944, he moved from Cape Gloucester to Pavuvu, Russell Islands, to Guadalcanal, and on September 15, 1944, sailed for Peleliu in the Palau Islands. Nine days later, he was killed in action on Peleliu when he flung himself on an enemy hand grenade to save the lives of two comrades. New was just 19 years old.

He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 25, 1944. Initially buried in the U.S. Armed Forces Cemetery on Peleliu, PFC New's remains were reinterred in the Mobile National Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama, in 1948.

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During World War II, the Victory Corps was an American program that provided military training to male and female high school students.

 On September 25, 1942, Commissioner of Education John W. Studebaker established the Victory Corps in conjunction with the United States Departments of War, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics. The program was designed to prepare secondary school students for possible military service and participation in the war effort.  

Although participation in the program was voluntary, many high schools nationwide sought to aid the war effort due to rising patriotic fervor following Pearl Harbor. For example, a survey conducted by the American Legion in 1943 found that of 232 high schools in Oregon, 86 schools had established a Victory Corps program and 96 schools planned to implement the program the following semester. The United States Office of Education aimed for every high school in the country to implement the Victory Corps program.

As the war drew to a close in Europe and Asia, the Corps was gradually phased out starting in June 1944. However, the Victory Corps Program significantly impacted the United States war effort during WWII.

 During its two years of existence, the program distributed a substantial amount of knowledge to schools across the country and raised millions of dollars for the war effort. Along with its practical achievements, the Victory Corps program was also groundbreaking for its time because it allowed participation from both white and African-American students ten years before public schools were desegregated.

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