Rank and Name, Fireman Second Class Joseph Albert Brand.

Unit/Placed in, LST-342, United States Naval Reserve.

Joseph is born approx. on July 3, 1919 in Washington .

Father, Joseph Brand.

Mother, Ethel M (Howard) Brand.

Joseph enlisted the service in Washington with service number # 6650930.

Joseph was KIA when the LST was struck by a Torpedo from the Japanese Submarine RO-106 on July 18, 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160342.htm Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC, https://abmc.gov

P.O.W. info, Wes Injerd and Dwight Rider, http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Air-Force, Rolland Swank NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org

Philippine Scouts Heritage Society,http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/   

Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org    

Hendriks Webdesign, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_LST-342