Rank and Name, Ensign Joe Sam Allen.

Unit/Placed in, 41^st Night fighting Squadron Forty One, base USS Independence (VCL-22) Air Group 41.

Joe is born on May 7, 1921 in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

Father, Joe J. Allen.

Mother, Mary K. Allen.

Joe enlisted the service in Oklahoma with service number # 0-321053.

Ensign Joe S. Allen was reported missing in action over Luzon, Philippines (according he was hit by FLAK and exploded over Clark Field area on Dec. 15, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Air Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, 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.

He also has a Memorial Grave at the Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma.

Thanks to http://www.ussindependencecvl22.com/index.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/

About the 41st Naval Air Squadron is not much info available, only that it was a night fighting Squadron from the USS Independence.