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Joseph Preston Adams Jr.

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Joseph Preston Adams Jr. Veteran

Birth
Wise County, Virginia, USA
Death
1 Oct 1943 (aged 27)
Solomon Islands
Burial
Danville, Danville City, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION K SITE 1524B
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Joseph served as a Motor Machinist's Mate Second Class, U.S.S. LST 448, U.S. Navy during World War II.


He enlisted from the State of Virginia on January 16, 1942.


Joseph was "Killed In Action", along with 18 of his shipmates at Niarovai Bay, Vella Lavella Island, in the Solomon Islands by Japanese dive bombers while unloading the LST.


Service ID: 6583755.

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Names of U. S. S. LST 448 crew members who lost their lives with Herbert on October 1, 1943 from the September 1943 Muster Roll


Joseph Preston Adams - Virginia

Mark M Burgess - Caddo Parish, Lousiania

George L Cazaubon, Jr - New Orleans

Johnny C Dickens - Burbank, California

Raymond Francis Fallon - New York State

William J Gray - Illinois

James M Hall, Jr

Harold D Hancock - Virginia

Alfred Willard Larue - West Virginia

Ben P Lawicki - Cleveland, Ohio

John J Martin - Illinois

John P Martin- Oregon

Harold E O'Neil - New York State

Joseph E Shanahan - Pennsylvania

William Wester - New Jersey

Frank E Whiterock - Colorado

Herbert T Dowden - Ohio


The following men were in the crew and died in 1943

Wilton G. Fox wounded on LST-448 and died in New Caledonia - Oneida County, New York

Jack Douglas Malloy - Utah

Joseph served as a Motor Machinist's Mate Second Class, U.S.S. LST 448, U.S. Navy during World War II.


He enlisted from the State of Virginia on January 16, 1942.


Joseph was "Killed In Action", along with 18 of his shipmates at Niarovai Bay, Vella Lavella Island, in the Solomon Islands by Japanese dive bombers while unloading the LST.


Service ID: 6583755.

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Names of U. S. S. LST 448 crew members who lost their lives with Herbert on October 1, 1943 from the September 1943 Muster Roll


Joseph Preston Adams - Virginia

Mark M Burgess - Caddo Parish, Lousiania

George L Cazaubon, Jr - New Orleans

Johnny C Dickens - Burbank, California

Raymond Francis Fallon - New York State

William J Gray - Illinois

James M Hall, Jr

Harold D Hancock - Virginia

Alfred Willard Larue - West Virginia

Ben P Lawicki - Cleveland, Ohio

John J Martin - Illinois

John P Martin- Oregon

Harold E O'Neil - New York State

Joseph E Shanahan - Pennsylvania

William Wester - New Jersey

Frank E Whiterock - Colorado

Herbert T Dowden - Ohio


The following men were in the crew and died in 1943

Wilton G. Fox wounded on LST-448 and died in New Caledonia - Oneida County, New York

Jack Douglas Malloy - Utah


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