During this landing, Company K encountered intense enemy fire, and PFC Salerno was killed in action. He was buried in a temporary cemetery on Betio Island, but could not be identified from among the remains disinterred from the island after the war.

During this landing, Company K encountered intense enemy fire, and PFC Salerno was killed in action. He was buried in a temporary cemetery on Betio Island, but could not be identified from among the remains disinterred from the island after the war.