Arndt, Augustus Little

Rank and Name, Captain Augustus Little Arndt.

Unit/Placed in, Night Fighter Squadron 543 (VMF(N)-543), United States Marine Corps.

Augustus is born approx. on Feb. 10, 1919 in Iredell, North Carolina.

Father, Cecil A. Arndt.

Mother, Lila R. (Pope) Arndt.

Augustus enlisted the service in North Carolina with service number # 0-012605.

Augustus was KIA (presumably) on the mission to Amami Oshima, Japan on May 14, 1945, he is honored with an Air Medal with 2 Gold Stars, Distinguished Service Cross with Gold Star, Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Good Conduct Medal, Marine Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMA-543#World_War_II

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