Born: August 18, 1916
Died: October 21, 1976
Campaigns Served: None with First Battalion
Highest Rank Attained: Corporal
Decorations: Purple Heart
Henry Doxtator enlisted in Chicago, Illinois in late 1939. He attended boot camp at Camp Elliott in California, and was assigned to Company F, 6th Marines. He served with them until July 1940, when he was transferred to Company F, 5th Marines. He was posted to Quantico, and shortly after, his company was sent to a post at Guantanamo Bay.
Doxtator, by now a corporal, was eventually transferred to the Marine base in Seattle, Washington, and from there was sent to Camp Pendleton to join Able Company.
Corporal Doxtator on the porch of Able Company's barracks, Camp Pendleton 1943. Also pictured are Lester Kincaid, Hal Fritz, and Ronald Palmer.
Doxtator was a quiet man, but a good NCO whose prior service inspired respect in the younger men of the company. Unfortunately, he fell seriously ill in December, 1943, and was unable to join the company in combat. He was formally transferred out in January, 1944.
Eventually, when he recovered, Doxtator was assigned to another combat unit and was wounded in action.
After the war, he returned to Shawano, Wisconsin, where he died in 1976.
Doxtator was a relative of James "Jamie" Doxtator, the third victim of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Jamie was killed in Milwaukee in 1988, at the age of fourteen.