Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Harm Keith Adkins.

Unit/placed on, USS Franklin (CV-13),Carrier “Big Ben”, United States Navy.

Harm was born  on Sep. 27, 1926 in Yancey County, North Carolina.

Father, Geoffrey D. Adkins.

Mother, Maude L. (Webb) Adkins.

Harm entered  the service from Tennessee with service-number # 7837969.

Harm was KIA during a Japanese Bomb strike on the ship near  Honshu, Japan Island, on March 19, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/WarDamageReports/WarDamageReportCV13/WarDamageReportCV13.html  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/