Rank and Name, Private Dale Richard Cooper.

Unit/Placed in, 511^th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11^th Airborne Division “Angels”.

Dale is born approx. on June 11, 1922 in Wastha, Iowa.

Father, Chancy B. Cooper.

Mother, Grace A. (Payne) Cooper.

Sisters, Dorothy B. and Marnes T. Cooper.

Brother, Wayne Q. Cooper.

Dale enlisted the service in Oregon with service number # 39324903.

Dale was KIA in the attacked on San Pablo Airstrip on Dec. 6, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, Parachutist’s Badge,  Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

He also ha a Memorial Grave at Patterson Cemetery, Taneyville, Taney County, Missouri, USA.

Thanks to https://sites.google.com/site/seans11thairborne/ 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://www.ww2-airborne.us/18corps/11abn/11_overview.html