SHERRY, ROBERT C. B.

Missing in action at Iwo Jima since Feb. 19, 1945, Second Lt. Robert C. B. Sherry, USMC, former Coronado High School athlete, has been reported as officially dead.

Lieutenant Sherry, who rose from the ranks in combat, had served with Carlson’s Raiders and was at Guadalcanal and Bougainville. The Marine Corps commandant’s office in Washington notified his mother, Mrs. Josephine Sherry, Hotel Cecil, San Diego, that the conclusion is “inescapable that he lost his life at Iwo Jima.”

A 1937 Coronado High School graduate, Lieutenant Sherry was vice president of the student body. Prior to joining the Marines on Dec. 23, 1940, he was employed at Santa Anita by Louis B. Mayer, movie executive and racehorse owner. The young man last visited Coronado in February, 1944, while on furlough.

Besides his mother, Lieutenant Sherry is survived by his wife, Mrs. June Sherry; a son, Robert Kenneth Sherry, 3, and a daughter, Bonny Lee, 6 months, of East Pasadena.

The well known “Iwo Jima book” carries a pre-invasion picture of Lieutenant Sherry.