Rank and Name, Machinist´s Mate First Class Charlie Martin Albrecht.

Unit/placed in, USS Hammann (DD-412) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Charlie was born in 1906 in Lavaca County, Texas.

Father, Earnest A. Albrecht.

Mother, Maude Albrecht.

Sisters, Polyanna, Maude L..,Frances, Ernstine, Pauline and Josephine Albrecht.

Charlie entered  the Service from Texas with service number # 3597706.

Charlie died when the ship was Torpedoed and Sunk, on June 5, 1942, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the missing.

He also has a Memorial Grave at Oak Grove Cemetery, Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas, USA.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/412.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/