Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Nelson H. Ahlquist.

Unit/placed in, USS Bunker Hill (CV-16) Carrier, United States Naval Reserve .

Nelson was born in  1927 in New Jersey.

Father, Nelson A. Ahlquist.

Mother, Josephine Ahlquist.

Brother, Louis Ahlquist.

Nelson entered  the service from New Jersey with service number # 7129163.

Nelson was KIA during the Invasion for Okinawa, two Japanese planes bombed the ship, on May 11, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to  http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/17.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/