Rank and Name, Torpedoman’s Mate Third Class Earl J. Alarie.

Unit/placed in, USS Pence (DD-512) Destroyer,. United States Navy.

Earl was born  in 1923 in Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Father, Walter Alarie.

Mother, Jenny Alarie.

Sisters, Dorothy, Loretta, Shirley and Joyce Alarie.  

Earl entered  the service from Massachusetts with service number # 2127466.

Earl died during the typhoon Cobra, the rudder jammed and the ship capsized and sunk, on Dec. 18, 1944, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Earlis 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/05/512.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/