Rank and Name,  Ship’s Cook Third Class Jack J. Adolfi.

Unit/placed on,  USS Edsall (DD-219) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Jack was born  on Sep. 28,  1917 in  Bari, Italy.

Father, Michael Adolfi.

Siblings, Unknown.

Jack entered  the Service from New York with service-number # 2237245.

Jack was KIA when the ship was attacked by many enemy Dive Bombers and Sunk near Tjilatjap, Java, on March 1, 1942, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Jack 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/05/219.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/ Hendriks  https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/219.htm ABMC, https://abmc.gov  http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com  https://www.familysearch.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Honorstates http://www.honorstates.org,   Geoffrey Roecker https://missingmarines.com/ P.O.W. Info: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html Wes Injerd-Dwight Rider,  Maurice van Doorn and Jean Louis Vijgen.