Rank: Coxswain
Branch: US Navy
Date of Enlistment: 12 Dec 1938
Ship Assignment: USS Pigeon
The above information is recorded on his Headstone Application for Military Veterans.
Note: "Home" on military card is listed as California but his Place of Birth was Missouri...
Multiple reports reveal the USS Pigeon went aground at Quingdao Bay, China during a typhoon in September 1939.
A pencil-scripted, family notation by one of his close relatives reads "buried in China" with his date of death.
It appears his remains were later interred in The Phillipines.
In Honor of Service to His Country and the Family Left Behind...
Branch: US Navy
Date of Enlistment: 12 Dec 1938
Ship Assignment: USS Pigeon
The above information is recorded on his Headstone Application for Military Veterans.
Note: "Home" on military card is listed as California but his Place of Birth was Missouri...
Multiple reports reveal the USS Pigeon went aground at Quingdao Bay, China during a typhoon in September 1939.
A pencil-scripted, family notation by one of his close relatives reads "buried in China" with his date of death.
It appears his remains were later interred in The Phillipines.
In Honor of Service to His Country and the Family Left Behind...
Rank: Coxswain
Branch: US Navy
Date of Enlistment: 12 Dec 1938
Ship Assignment: USS Pigeon
The above information is recorded on his Headstone Application for Military Veterans.
Note: "Home" on military card is listed as California but his Place of Birth was Missouri...
Multiple reports reveal the USS Pigeon went aground at Quingdao Bay, China during a typhoon in September 1939.
A pencil-scripted, family notation by one of his close relatives reads "buried in China" with his date of death.
It appears his remains were later interred in The Phillipines.
In Honor of Service to His Country and the Family Left Behind...
Branch: US Navy
Date of Enlistment: 12 Dec 1938
Ship Assignment: USS Pigeon
The above information is recorded on his Headstone Application for Military Veterans.
Note: "Home" on military card is listed as California but his Place of Birth was Missouri...
Multiple reports reveal the USS Pigeon went aground at Quingdao Bay, China during a typhoon in September 1939.
A pencil-scripted, family notation by one of his close relatives reads "buried in China" with his date of death.
It appears his remains were later interred in The Phillipines.
In Honor of Service to His Country and the Family Left Behind...
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