Rank and Name, Storekeeper Third Class Stephen Nazerias Aleksiewicz.

Unit/Placed, USS Achilles (LST-455/ARL-41) Tank Landing Craft Repair Ship, United States Naval Reserve.

Stephen was born on July 28, 1917 in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Father, Daniel Aleksiewicz.

Mother, Josephine Aleksiewicz.

Both parent born in Poland.

Brother, John Alsiewicz.

Stephen enlisted the service in Connecticut with serial number # 8076202.

Stephen died during the Invasion of the Philippines when the USS Achilles was hit by a Kamikaze, on Nov. 12, 1944, he is honored with a Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to ABMC, https://abmc.gov  http://navylog.navymemorial.org ,  Jean Louis Vijgen , Familysearch.com  https://www.familysearch.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Sean Cojenos, Honorstates http://www.honorstates.org,  Geoffrey Roecker https://missingmarines.com/ P.O.W. : http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider, Armand Hendriks https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/