Born: unknown
Died:
Campaigns Served: Iwo Jima (wounded)
Highest Rank Attained: Private First Class
Decorations: Purple Heart
Robert Bales joined Baker Company from the Fourth Signal Company on February 21, 1944. He fell seriously ill in the spring of 1944, and was hospitalized in Naval Hospital #8, thereby missing the battles for Saipan and Tinian.
Bales rejoined the company prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima. He hit the beaches as a rifleman in one of the front line platoons, but was wounded and evacuated on February 21, 1945.