Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Herbert Ray Allen.

Unit/Placed in, USS Mississinewa (AO-59) Axillary Oiler, United States Navy.

Herbert is born on Feb.2, 1920 in Long Beach, California.

Mother, ?? Moore.

Herbert enlisted the service in California with service number # 0-1781136.

Herbert was KIA when the USS Mississinewa was attacked Sunk by a Japanese Kaiten (manned suicide Torpedo) of Ulithi Lagoon on Nov. 20, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to https://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/AO-59.html 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/