Rank and Name,First Lieutenant Dwayne Westling Alder.

Unit/Placed in,11th Field Artillery Regiment, 11^th Philippine Division.

Dwayne is born on April 7, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Father, Walter H. Alder.

Mother, Wilhelmine M. (Westling) Alder.

Sister, Helen M. Alder.

Wife, Mary S. (Dunoskovic) Alder.

Dwayne enlisted the service in Utah with service number # O-364807.

Dwayne died in Luzon, defending Philippine soil against the Japanese on Jan. 24 1945, he is honored with a Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

He also has a Memory Grave at , Memory Grove Memorial, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA.

Thanks to 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/