Banks, Auckland Marston

Rank and Name, Aviation Ordnance man Third Class Auckland Marston Banks.

Unit/Placed in, Patrol Bombing Squadron 130 (VPB-130), United States Navy.

Auckland is born on 12 December 1923 in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida.

Father, Percival McLaren Banks.

Mother, Ethel Elizabeth Banks.

Divorced in 1942.

Sister(s), Ethel Margarite Banks.

Brother(s), Percival Jr. and John Ainsworth Sr. Banks.

Auckland enlisted the service in Florida with service number # 8300534.

Auckland ‘s crew-members on-board the plane a Lockheed PV-1- were,

Lt. Richard V. Umprhey Pilot

Ensign James W. McCaslin

Amm2. Louis A. Murie

Arm3. Alvin Greenfield

Arm3. O.A. Dillon

Aom3. Auckland M. Banks

Auckland was KIA/MIA when the failed to return from a sector patrol near Morotai, Indonesia on 12 February 1945, he is honored with an Disguised Flying Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=1772708

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G8G6-R1D

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

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

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

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

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

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