Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Lee Loyd Addington.

Unit/placed on, USS Little (DD-803) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Lee was born  in 1925 in Visalia, Tulare County, California.

Father, Zena E. Addington.

Mother,Hattie E. (Atchison) Addington .

Lee entered  the service from California with service-number # 8860866.

Lee was KIA  when the ship got hit by a Kamikaze Plane off the Okinawa Coast, on May 3, 1945, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/803.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/