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1q, ,. . . , f aj or Henry T. Elrod was bom on 27 September 1905, in if ii I Tumer County, Georgia. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1927, and was appointed a Marine Second Lieutenant in February 1931. He attended the University of Georgia and Yale University prior to his entry into the Marine Corps. Following over a year at the Marine Corps Basic School in f Philadelphia and at the Marine Barracks as a student aviator, Lieutenant Elrod was ordered to the Naval Station at Pensacola. There he served 1 as a Company Officer at the Naval Station, and as a student aviator. In February 1935, he earned his Marine Aviator wings, and was transferred to Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, VA, where he served with a Marine aircraft unit until January 193 8. In July 1938, Lieutenant Elrod transferred to San Diego for duty at the Naval Air Station as Squadron Material, Parachute, and Personnel Officer, until January 1941, when he was detached to the Hawaiian . FH Operational Area. He arrived at Wake Island a short time before hostilities commenced and was one of the twelve pilots who flew the Marine planes onto the island. He was killed in action defending Wake Island against the invading Japanese on 23 December 1941. During the defense of Wake Island, Major Elrod repeatedly displayed conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life, above and beyond the call of duty. On 12 December, he single-handedly attacked a flight of 22 enemy planes and shot down two. On several flights he executed low altitude bombing and straiing runs on enemy ships, and became the f1rst man to sink a major warship with small caliber bombs delivered from a fighter- type aircraft. When his plane was destroyed by hostile fire, he organized a unit of ground troops into a beach defense and repelled repeated Japanese attacks until he fell mortally wounded. On 8 November 1946, his widow was presented with the Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded to her husband for his heroic actions during the last bitter days of the defense of Wake Island. Maj or Elrod was initially buried on Wake Island, but was reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery, Ft. Myer, Virginia, in October 1947. 4
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