He was Killed in Action and his body lost at Sea.
He was aboard the USS Langley that was hit by the Japanese and abandoned,
all 800 were picked up by the USS Pecos that was then hit by bombs from the Japanese
and it sunk on 1 Mar 1942. There were 230 survivors of which he was not one of them.
Over 400 men were left in the water. This all happened South of Java.
He was Killed in Action and his body lost at Sea.
He was aboard the USS Langley that was hit by the Japanese and abandoned,
all 800 were picked up by the USS Pecos that was then hit by bombs from the Japanese
and it sunk on 1 Mar 1942. There were 230 survivors of which he was not one of them.
Over 400 men were left in the water. This all happened South of Java.
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