U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #39575236

Enlistment Date: 06/04/1943 in Los Angeles, California

Troop G, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division

Joseph Talley is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Los Angeles County, California.

U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954

Name Joseph Talley

Rank Enlisted Man

Admission Age 25

Birth Date abt 1919

Admission Date Mar 1944

Discharge Date Mar 1944

Military Branch Cavalry, General or Unspecified

Diagnosis First Location: Abdomen, generally; Causative Agent: None or Unknown

Type of Injury Casualty, battle

Injured in Line of Duty In line of duty

Type of Discharge Died

Length of Service 0 Year(s), 9, 10 OR 11 MONTHS Month(s)

Death Location possibly Papua, New Guinea

Washington, U.S., County Birth Records, 1870-1935 lists Joseph Rokrubaum with DOB of 19 Jun 1915 in King County, Washington to Antone Rokrubaum and Clara Goosens.

U.S., Naturalization Records, 1840-1957 for his father (Father - Antone "Tony" Rokenbauer (1892-1976); Divorced from Clara in 1922) lists DOB of 06/19, 1918 in Seattle, Washington for Joseph Rokenbauer.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his name as Joseph Talley. Residence is 3782 Dublin Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. Contact person listed as Mrs. Clara Talley (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Seattle, Washington on 06/19/1918. Employed at Halliburton Building, 1709 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California as of 10/16/1940 registration date.

1920, 1930, 1940 United States Federal Censuses have his last name listed as Rokenbauer. Above record indicates he changed his name when he went into the service.

U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists WWII deceased returned from British Guinea, USAF Cemetery, Finschaffen No. 2, New Guinea. Re-interred on July 16th, 1948.

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