Rank and Name, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Philip Emanuel Baer.
Unit/Placed in, USS South Dakota (BB-57) Battleship, United States Naval Reserve.
Philip is born approx. on 27 March 1922 in Contra Costa, California.
Father, Emanuel H. Baer.
Mother, Anna C. (Davenport) Baer.
Spouse, Jeanette (Olsen) Baer.
Philip enlisted the service in California with service number # 3771554.
Philip died when a working party was hoisting ammunition aboard the USS South Dakota when a tank exploded on 9 May 1945, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Philip is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Thanks to, https://southdakotabattleship.org/
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
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
