Rank and Name,Seaman Second Class Richard W. Ahlman Jr.

Unit/Placed in,USS Hancock (CV-19) Carrier, United States Naval Reserve.

Richard is born in 1927 in New Jersey.

Father, Richard W. Ahlman.

Mother, Mary I. Ahlman.

Richard enlisted the service in Massachusetts with service number # 7622478.

Richard was KIA when the USS Hancock was hit by a Kamikaze and exploded on April 7, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to  http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/19.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/