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Armand, Medric Joseph

Rank and Name, Mineman First Class Medric Joseph Armand.

Unit/Placed in, USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) Destroyer, United States Navy.

 

Medric is born approx. on Feb. 26, 1920 in Cottonport, Louisiana.

Father, Claude Armand.

Mother, Henrietta Armand.

Sister(s), Geraldine Armand.

Brother(s), Cecil, Sebastian, Floid and Graig Armand.

Spouse, De Velle J. (Karkling) Armand.

 

Medric enlisted the service in Louisiana with service number # 2743713.

 

Medric was KIA when the USS Aaron Ward was severe damaged from multiple Kamikaze Attacks on May 3, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

 

Medric is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

 

Thanks to, http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/mine_warfare/pages/uss_aaron_ward_dm34_roll_of_honor.htm

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com    Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

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

Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/

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

Website,

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com

USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) Destroyer
Damage amidships of USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) received during Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa on 3 May 1945. View looks down and aft from Aaron Ward's foremast, with her greatly distorted forward smokestack in the lower center. Photographed while the ship was in the Kerama Retto on 5 May 1945. A mine is visible at left,on the ship's starboard mine rails. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Battle Damage, way of Attack
Memorial
His rank Mine-man First Class