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Tim Lozano

Lozano during Makin Raid in 1942.

Timothy Lozano (1911-September 16, 1944) was a US Marine Corps Corporal and Raider under the command of Sgt. Tom Sullivan in the raid on Makin Atoll during WWll. He was seen on Makin Atoll shooting a Imperial Japanese officer out of a hut and over a balcony with an M1911, before joining the other Marines during the Battle of Peleliu before being killed on the second day.

Biography[]

Lozano was born in Bronx, New York to an Italian family and work as a meat butcher before joining the United States Marine Corps right after the attack of Pearl Harbor. In 1942, He took part of the Battle of Guadalcanal where he the Silver for taking a whole Platoon of Imperial Japanese by himself and decided to volunteer in the Marine Raiders. When the raid over the Makin island happened, Marine private Charlie Miller saw passing Lozano there is a small hut to the left. Inside the small hut is a U.S. Marine, two Japanese officers and a stockpile of M1 Garand rifles and Thompson SMGs. No matter what, the Marine dies except Lozano who was severely wounded. The Marines second objective is to destroy an ammo bunker and to escape the Makin island with their small boats but before they continue with the rest of their mission. Three years after Makin, Lozano was reassigned back to the 1st Marine Division along with Miller, Sullivan, Cpl.Roebuck, and Pvt. Polousky.

Final Battle[]

In September 15, 1944 during the beach landing of Peleliu, the men took a ride of a landing craft (LVT), making its way to Peleliu Island's White beach. When Private Koopman realizes the craft is stuck on coral, he gets shot by a Japanese sniper and the Marines realize they've become vulnerable to unexpected enemy fire. They attempt to exit the vehicle before being hammered by shells from the Japanese position, but a shell hits the LVT and destroys it, sending Miller, Polonsky, Sullivan, Roebuck, Lozano and three other Marines into the water. The Japanese managed to kill two Marines before Miller is pulled from the water by Sergeant Sullivan, who orders him to radio in a rocket strike on the enemy lines, which destroys the hostile Machine Guns along the tree line. When he does this, he proceeds onto the island. After a flamethrower team, led by Pfc. Daniel Glover wipes out a machine gun nest, Miller then goes through a small trench and is faced with a large Japanese trench network and machine gun nest. Miller then proceeds through the trench and kills the turret gunners. Miller called in two rocket strikes on Japanese tanks to clear the way for an American tank and some more Marines but as the result, Sullivan was stabbed by a katana from the Japanese officer in the chest killing him make Roebuck was next in command. A day later, They come across a downed F4U Corsair, which a group of Marines are examining and trying to remove the dead pilot from the plane. However, the pilot is wired with a booby trap and explodes, signaling a Japanese ambush consisting of well camouflaged Banzai Chargers. After dispersing yet more enemies, Miller and the squad is out of the swamp and is faced with trenches and turrets. After clearing these out, there is yet another machine gun nest but Lozano caught in the middle the gunfire he was shot in the chest killing him.

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