Badger Jr. , Samuel Eveleth

Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Samuel Eveleth Badger Jr.

Unit/Placed in, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron-21 (MTBRON 21), United States Naval Reserve.

Samuel is born approx. on no record.

Samuel enlisted the service in Massachusetts with service number # 0-334869.

Samuel was KIA in the Landings at Leyte when they were hit by a Kamikaze plane on 5 Nov. 1944, 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.

Samuel 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/12/05021.htm

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

National Historian