Arellano, Felipe Ayalo

Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Felipe Ayalo Arellano.

Unit/Placed in, USS Mississippi (BB-41) Battleship, United States Navy.

Felipe is born approx. on 1924 in Texas.

Father, Felipe Arrellano.

Mother, Dolores A. Arrellano.

Parents born in Mexico.

Sister(s), Ramona, Trinidad an Guadalope Arrellano.

Brother(s), Augustino and Juan Arrellano.

Felipe enlisted the service in Texas with service number # 8416496.

Felipe (probably) died of his wounds when they shelling the Japanese Defenses on Luzon, then the USS Mississippi was hit by a Kamikaze on Jan. 9, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Felipe 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/01/41a.htm

https://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/BB-41.html

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/