Cain, John Edward – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Aviation Machinist’s Mate Second Class John Edward Cain.

Unit/Placed in, Patrol Bombing Squadron 124 (VPB-124), United States Naval Reserve.

John is born on 1910 in Pennsylvania.

Father, John Cain.

Mother, Rose Cain.

Sister(s), Mary M. Rose and Anna Cain.

Brother(s), James Cain.

John enlisted the service in Pennsylvania with service number # 8219468.

John‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane a PB4Y were,

LT(jg) Jack “R” Crist

LT(jg) Grant W Smith

ENSIGN Ralph M. W. Frailey

AMM2 John E Cain

ARM2 Charles Wilson

AOM2 Donald L Bott

AMM3 Theodore Noonan

ARM3 John B Kaighn Jr

AOM2 Norman F Surface

S1c Bernard J Moriarty

S1c Earnest E Pike

ART1 Norman I Sayre

ENSIGN Gerald W Eves

ARM Jack “C” Camerson

AOM1 Raymond J Skulina

ARM2 Thomas P Metz

John was KIA when they not returned from a Long-range search Mission along the China Coast and Shanghai, all 12 Crewmembers were MIA on 26 June 1945, he is honored with an Air Medal, Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

John is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, http://www.vpnavy.com/

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

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

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com