Rank and Name,Private First Class Thomas Chapman Aldrich .

Unit/Placed in,383rd Infantry Regiment, 96^th Infantry Division“Dead Eyes“.

Thomas is born on 14 Oct. 1923 in Hardford County, Connecticut.

Father, Charles M. Aldrich.

Mother, Pricella (Chapman) Aldrich.

Brother, C.M. Aldrich Jr.

Thomas enlisted the service in Connecticut with service number # 11102817.

Thomas was KIA in the Fights over Leyte, Philippines on Dec. 15, 1944, he  is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

He Also has a Memorial Grave at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA.

Thanks to http://www.96thdeadeyes.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/