Name and Rank, Private First Class Isadore ”Ike” Zaas.
Unit/Placed in, 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division “Red Arrow”.
Isadore was born approx. on 1915 in Michigan.
Father, Louis Zaas.
Mother, Esther Zaas.
Sister, Mae Zaas (Greenberg).
Brother, Hymie Zaas.
He enlisted the service at Michigan with service number # 36113227.
Isadore was KIA near Sorong (Sereng) in fights with the Japanese, New Guinea on Feb. 2, 1944, and he is honored with the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Isadore is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Thanks to the 32nd http://www.32nd-division.org/history/ww2/32ww2-6.html
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
