Rank and Name, Chief Carpenter John Arnold Austin.
Unit/Placed in, , USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Battleship, United States Navy.
John is born approx. on 30 Aug. 1905 in Warrior, Alabama.
Father, John M. Austin.
Mother, Bertha (Thompson) Austin.
Sister(s), Opal P. and Marjorie F. Austin.
Brother(s), J. E. and Joseph H. Austin.
Spouse, Florence G. (McCredey) Austin.
Son, John A. Austin Jr.
John enlisted the service in Alabama with service number # 75565.
John was KIA during the Japanese Air Raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, 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.
John was buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
His remains are discovered and his final resting place now is Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA.
He is also Mentioned at USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
He is also Mentioned at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
Thanks to, https://www.okhistory.org/kids/ussok8.php
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
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
Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Chief Carpenter John A. Austin were accounted for in 2018. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.
