Acdal, Crencencio S.
Rank and Name,Private First Class Crencencio S. Acdal.
Unit/Placed in on, 57th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Scout.
POW
The Imperial Japanese began their Invasion in the Philippines on 8 Dec 1941.
The 57th resorted to fighting together among American and Filipino forces when compelled to surrender on 9 Apr 1942.
Private First Class Crencencio S. Acdal became a POW and was imprisoned at Pow Camp no record, he survived the Bataan Death March, but died shortly after it.
Crencencio is born in the Philippines.
Parents and Sibling, No Record Available.
Crencencio enlisted the U.S.Army in Philippines with service number # 10301146.
Crencencio died as a POW in Camp no record on Juli 7, 1942. Private First Class Crencencio S. Acdal is honored with a Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.
Crencencio is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Wall 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/ Hendriks https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/
Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org