Name and Rank, Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Dale. V. Uhre.
Unit/Placed in, USS McCawley (APA-4) Attack Transport, United States Navy.
Dale was born approx. on July. 6, 1918 in Letcher, South Dakota.
Father, Albert Uhre.
Mother, Anna Belle Uhre.
Brothers, Bernard O. and Marvin L. Uhre.
Dale entered the service from South Dakota in 1940 with service number # 3167193.
Dale V. Uhre was a Motor Machnist’s Mate Second Class in the United States Navy.
Dale when she was unloading various Combat personnel and was attacked by Japanese aircraft on June 30, 1943, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Dale is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the Missing
Thanks to https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/APA-4.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
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
