Snapp, Raymond Clark
Marines Corporal

Raymond Clark Snapp, age 24, from Bonita, Texas, Montague county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Saturday, November 20, 1943
Death details: On June 15, 2017, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Corporal Raymond Clark Snapp, missing from World War II. Corporal Snapp joined the U.S. Marine Corps from California and served with Company F, 2nd Marine Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. He was killed in action on Betio Island on November 20, 1943, the first day of the assault on the Tarawa Atoll. Although he was buried on Betio Island, his remains could not be identified after the war and were eventually interred with other “unknowns” from Tarawa at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii. In 2017, advances in forensic science allowed DPAA analysts to identify Cpl Snapp’s remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency