About



World War II (1939-1945)

Sherwood Eddy Bulnes Jr. was born in Schenectady, New York, on March 11, 1920. After graduating from Mont Pleasant High School in 1937, he attended Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey.

In February 1941, Sherwood enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He was a corporal serving with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division, FMF. On August 9, 1944, Sherwood was killed in combat during the Battle of Guam. He is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii. 

Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry

 


 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
 
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon