Davis, Alton Wood – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, Ensign Alton Wood Davis.

Unit/Placed in, Patrol Squadron 74 (VP-74), United States Naval Reserve.

Alton is born approx. on 29 June 1915 in Westport, Massachusetts.

Father, Leslie Burdette Davis.

Mother, Mary Lizzie (Wood) Davis.

Sister(s), Virginia and Marylyn Leslie Davis.

Brother(s), Russell Burdette Davis.

Alton enlisted the service in Massachusetts with service number # 0-104322.

Alton‘s Crew-members on-board the plane a PBM- 1 were,

LtJg. John Herbert Cushman Pilot

Ensign Wilson B. Trapp

Ensign Alton Wood Davis

Machinist Anthony Javonovich

Amm2. Harvey Peterson

Em2. Edward William Leidy

Arm3. David Griffith Stone

Arm3. Hugh Milton Grantham

Aom3. Thomas Edward McMillan

Amm3. William Faudie Marshall

Amm3. Richard Lyle Amburn

Amm3. Walter L. Kuhlmann Jr.

Alton was KIA on a search Mission at Bermuda, the plane was circling at a low altitude when it was Caught by a Downdraft and crashed at Sea on 3 June 1942, 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.

Alton is buried/mentioned at the tablets of the missing at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York.

Alton also has a Memorial Grave at Beech Grove Cemetery

Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts, VS.

Thanks to, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5DW-VVD

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