Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Harvey Allen.

Unit/Placed in, USS Jarvis (DD-393) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Richard is born 1917 in California.

Father, Harvey D. Allen.

Mother, Stella H. Allen.

Brother, John D. Allen.

Richard enlisted the service in California with service number # 0-097319.

Richard was KIA when the USS Jarvis was Sunk by Japanese Airforce at Guadalcanal  on Aug. 9, 1942 he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/destroyers/pages/alpha_pages/j/jarvis_dd393_roll_of_honor.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/