Rank and Name, Private Wallace R. Abel.

Unit/Placed in on, 237^th Anti Aircraft Artillery (Searchlight Battalion).

Wallace is born in 1924 in Ten Mile, Washington.

Father, Claude Abel.

Mother, Eva M. Abel.

Wallace enlisted the U.S.Army in Washington with service number # 39201029.

Wallace was KIA on transport to Mindoro the LST-460 Sunk because it was under enemy attack on Dec. 21, 1944, Private Wallace R. Abel is honored with a  Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160460.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/