Rank and Name, Elektrician’s Mate Third Class Donald Wendell Adams.

Unit/Placed in, USS LCS-119, Landing Craft Support, United States Naval Reserve.

Donald is born in 1925 in Wahpeton, North Dakota.

Father, Clide W. Adams.

Mother, Esther Adams.

Donald enlisted the service in North Dakota with service number # 7577664.

Donald was KIA when the landing craft was attacked by a Kamikaze on May 28, 1945, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/05/050119.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/