Amorello, Joseph Frank

Rank and Name, Water Tender Third Class Joseph Frank Amorello.

Unit/Placed in, USS Halligan (DD-584) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Joseph is born approx. on 1925 in New Rochelle, New York.

Father, Baldassaro Amorello.

Mother, Serafina Amorello.

Born in Italy

Sister(s), Gressie Amorello.

Brother(s), Chester and Henry Amorello.

Joseph enlisted the service in New York with service number # 8109828.

Joseph died off his wounds sustained when the USS Halligan hit a mine, he was wounded and transported to the USS LMS(R) were he died on March 28, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Joseph is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to, http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd584txt.htm

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/

Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org