Rank and Name, Private First Class Lonus A. Ashburn.
Unit/Placed in, 136th Infantry Regiment, 33rd Infantry Division.
Lonus is born approx. on 1924 in Ohio.
Parents and Siblings, No Record Available.
Lonus enlisted the service in Tennessee with service number # 34736667.
Lonus was KIA when they mopping up the San Nicolas-Tebbo-Itogo Trail in Luzon from the Japanese on 12 May 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksmanship Badge, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Lonus 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
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
