Rank/Name,  Seaman First Class Vonceal Adams.

Unit/placed in, USS Haligan (DD-584) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Vonceal was born  on July 18, 1925 in  Arkansas.

Father, Culbert Adams.

Mother, Manda Adams.

Sisters, Janice and Mildred Adams.  

Brothers, Howard, Nelson and Arvis Adams.

Vonceal entered  the service from Arkansas with service-number # 8446687.

Vonceal was KIA  during a Battle at Ryukyu Islands, when the ship hit a mine, on March 26, 1945, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to  http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/584.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/