Rank and Name, Staff Sergeant Dewey G. Adams.

Unit/placed; 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division “First Team”.

Dewey is born in 1921 in Cameron County, Texas.

Father, John F. Adams.

Mother, Mary B. (Cordell) Adams.

Dewey enlisted the U.S.Army in Texas with service number # 18022825.

Dewey was KIA during fights over Leyte, Philippines, on Dec. 14, 1944, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to  https://www.1cda.org/ 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/