Rank and Name, Steward’s Mate Second Class Evan Allen.

Unit/Placed in, USS Sauffley (DD-465) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Evan is born 1918 in Milett, South Carolina.

Father, John Allen.

Mother, Charlotte Allen.

Evan enlisted the service in South Carolina with service number # 9323884.

Evan was KIA during a Kamikaze attack in Leyte Gulf, on Nov. 29, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/465.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/