Rank and Name, Radioman Third Class John Floyd Ackerman.

Unit/Placed in on, USS Hull (DD-350) Destroyer, United States Navy.

John is born in Feb. 1, 1925 in Washburn, Iowa.

Father, Floyd A. Ackerman.

Mother, Ruth M. (Barnes) Ackerman.

John enlisted the service in California with service number # 3816114.

John died when his ship Sunk during the Typhoon Cobra in the Philippine Sea on Dec. 18, 1944,  is honored with a  Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/350.htm 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/