Foster, Leonard Ray – ww2 Pacific

Rank and Name, First Lieutenant Leonard Ray Foster.

Unit/Placed in, 46th Squadron, 317th Troop Carrier Group, United States Army Air Forces.

Leonard is born on 10 November 1920 in Marshfield, Coos County, Oregon.

Father, Sylvester Jeremiah Foster.

Mother, Ellen Mae (Yokom) Foster.

Brother(s), Robert Dean Foster.

Leonard enlisted the service in Oregon with service number # O-888631.

Leonard‘s crew-members and their position on-board the plane a C-47 were,

1^st Lt. Leonard R. Foster Pilot

2^nd Lt. Frank E. Koski Co Pilot

Corporal J.H. Farrar Radio Operator

Members of the 11^th Cargo Resupply Section;

Private Walter T. Nelson

Private Benjamin Piets

Tec5. Chester H. Tatko

Tec5. Clarence Wiebenga

SSgt. Ernest Little

Leonard was KIA/MIA on the supply dropping for an Infantry Battalion in the Hills of a Japanese Sector (Burauen, Leyte) on 2 December 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/philippines_tacloban.html

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KJZ6-HZD

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