Rank and Name, Captain Joseph Napoleon Abel.

Unit/Placed in on, VMJ-253 (Transport), Marine Corps.

Joseph is born in 1915 in Seattle, Washington.

Father, Harry a. Abel.

Mother, Margaret N. Abel.

Joseph enlisted the service in Washington with service number # 0-009032.

Joseph was KIA on Dec. 11, 1943,  Captain Joseph N. Abel is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Joseph’s crew-members and their position on-board the plane a C-47 were;

No Record.

Joseph is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial  Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/