THE TERRIBLE DEATH OF JOSEPH WILLIAM OZBOURN OF HERRIN, HE DIED AS A HERO.....

 Joseph William Ozbourn of Herrin, Illinois, a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 30, 1944 on Tinian in the Marianas Islands.

Ozbourn enlisted in the Marine Corps in October 1943, and by July 30, 1944, he was serving as a Browning Automatic Rifleman with the 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines, 4th Marine Division during the Battle of Tinian. He died after hurling himself on a live hand grenade and saving the lives of four fellow Marines.

He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his action on July 30, 1944. Ozbourn was initially buried in Tinian, Marina Islands, but later his remains were reinterred in the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii

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