Rank and Name, Ship’s Cook Third Class Frederick Charles Aders.

Unit/placed on, USS Pillsbury (DD-227) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Frederick was born  on 29 March, 1918 in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri.

Father, Levi C. Aders.

Mother, Elizabeth (Knollhof) Aders.

Frederick entered  the Service from Missouri with service-number # 3371633.

Frederick was KIA when the USS Pillsbury Sunk by a Japanese surface action in the Bali Strait, on March 1, 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138148 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/