Rank and Name, Private Felipe Alecha.

Unit/Placed in, 57th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Scouts.

Felipe is born in 1916 in the Philippines.

Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.

Felipe enlisted the service in the Philippines with service number # 10303516.

Felipe was KIA at Batan Island, defending Philippine soil against the Japanese Occupation on Feb. 7, 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

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/