Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade John White Acree.

Unit/Placed in on, USS Enterprise (CV-6) Carrier, United States Naval Reserve.

John is born in 1918 in Lynchburg, Virginia.23-4

Father, Leighton C. Acree.

Mother, Virginia W. Acree.

John enlisted the sevice in Virginia with service number # 0-096693.

John was KIA, leading a damage-control party on-board the USS Enterprise and tended the wounded during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. on Oct. 26, 1942, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Navy/Presidential Unit Citation, Combat Action Ribbon,  Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

John also has a Memorial Grave at the Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg City, Virginia.

Thanks to http://www.cv6.org/default.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/