Rank and Name, Chief Motor Machinist’s Mate Robert Penfield   Aley.

Unit/Placed, YMS-341 Minesweeper, United States Navy.

Robert was born in Oct. 17, 1915 in , Fresno County, California.

Mother, ?? Penfield..

Robert enlisted the service in California with serial number # 3808414.

Robert died when the ship was foundred in Typhoon Ida, off Okinawa, Japan on Sep. 17, 1945.  Chief Motor Machinist’s Mate Robert P. Aley is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, American Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Robert is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County,

Hawaii, USA.

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/19341.htm  Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/