Rank and Name, Motor Machinist’s Mate Second Class Joe Rodriguez Baeta.
Unit/Placed in, USS LSM-318, (Landing Ship Medium 318), United States Naval Reserve.
Joe is born approx. on no record.
Joe enlisted the service in California with service number # 8859289.
Joe was KIA when the USS LSM-318 was hit by a Kamikaze during the landing on 7 Dec. 1944, he is honored with a 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.
Joe is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to, https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/14/14318.htm
https://www.wrecksite.eu/peopleView.aspx?kTFYQbQIqiZaarJZjMyXMg==
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.
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/
