Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Fred Wood Albright.

Unit/Placed in, USS Abner Read (dd-526) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Fred was born in, 1921 in New Mexico.

Father, Harvey A. Albright.

Mother, Artie M. Albright.

Fred enlisted the service in Texas with service number # 6160809.

Fred was KIA when it sunk during a Japanese Kamikaze attacked on the ship, on Aug. 18, 1943, he  is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Fred is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to  http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/526.htm 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/