Rank and Name, Captain Andrew Jackson.
Unit/Placed in, Marine Fighting Squadron 132 (VSMB-132), Marine Corps.
Andrew is born approx. on June 4, 1919 in Georgia.
Father, Edd Jackson.
Mother, Annie Jackson.
Brother(s), John Jackson.
Spouse, Jean (Grant) Jackson.
Andrew enlisted the service in Virginia with service number # 0-009924.
Andrew died in a mid-air collision with a Marine Wildcat on June 9, 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Air Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
In this accident also his Crewmember, SSgt. Thomas J Quinn was killed.
Jackson was posthumously promoted to Captain.
Andrew is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Thanks to, https://www.daveswarbirds.com/cactus/men6.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMF-132
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
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Philppine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
