Rank and Name, Torpedo’s Mate Third Class Oscar Allen Abbott.

Unit/Placed in on, USS Gudgeon (SS-211) Submarine, United States Naval Reserve.

Oscar is born in 1925 in Clayton, North Carolina.

Mother, Isebelle B. Twinsdale (Abbott).

 Oscar enlisted the service in Arizona with serial # 5557399.

Oscar was KIA when the Submarine (probably) was attacked by Air off the coast of Iwo Jima on April 18, 1944, Torpedo’s Mate Third Class Oscar A. Abbott is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Submarine Enlistment Badge, Navy Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Oscar is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/