Rank and Name, Private First Class Meliton Aquino.
Unit/Placed in, 12th Quartermaster Regiment, Philippine Scouts.
Meliton is born in approx. on 1919 in the Philippines.
Parents and Siblings no record available.
Meliton enlisted the service in the Philippines with service number # 10303680.
Meliton was KIA at Luzon defending Philippine soil against the Japanese Occupation on April 6, 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Medal, Army & Air Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Meliton is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to,
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Philppine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
