Rank and Name, Machinist’s Mate Second Class Harold Francis Allen Jr.

Unit/Placed in, USS Palmer (DMS-5) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Harold is born  1916 in New York.

Father, Harold Allen.

Mother, Teresa Allen.

Sister, Elaine Allen.

Harold enlisted the service in New York with service number # 7071196.

Harold was KIA when a Japanese Dive-Bomber, Bombed the USS Palmer at Lingayen Gulf and it Sunk, on Jan. 7, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/0905.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/