• Men of Mount Carmel who died in World War II

Date of death:

January 21st, 1945 (South Pacific)

Mentioned on:

American Cemetery and Memorial Manila

Service number:

9455814

Nationality:

American

Class of 1940. Track 2,3 & 4; Cisca; Lightweight football 2; Bantamweight basketball 1; Intramural basketball & baseball 1,2,3 & 4. His wife lived at 8013 Ingleside, Chicago. Seaman First Class U.S. Navy. Entered service from Illinois.

The USS Hancock participated in raids against Formosa that were resumed on 20 January. The next afternoon, January 21, one of her planes returning from a sortie made a normal landing, taxied to a point abreast of the ship’s island, and disintegrated in a blinding explosion which killed 50 men and injured 75 others. Again outstanding work quickly brought the fires under control in time to land other planes which were still aloft.

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• Photo 1: Terry Stadler
• - Stadler, T., Men of Mount Carmel: Remembering Those Who Died in World War II
  - James D. Reiners | American Battle Monuments Commission
  

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