Rank and Name, Private First Class Lavern Kenneth Allen.

Unit/Placed in, 2^nd Battalion, 1^st Marine Division, Marine Corps.

Lavern is born in 15-08-1920 in Jameston Township, Michigan.

Father, Elmer Allen.

Mother, Genevieve Allen.

Lavern enlisted the service in Michigan with service number # 339171.

Lavern was KIA at Fights over “Bloody Nose Ridge “, Peleliu on Sep, 19, 1944, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to  https://web.archive.org/web/20080128145856/http://www.i-mef.usmc.mil:80/DIV/1MAR/2bn/default.asp 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/