Rank and Name, Chief Boatswain’s Mate Charles Corbett Irvin.
Unit/Placed in, USS Facility (AM-233) Minesweeper, United States Navy.
Charles is born on 21 September 1913 in Joplin, Missouri.
Father, Corbitt Irvin.
Mother, Dora Lee (Louisa) Irvin.
Spouse, Louis Nadine Irvin.
Charles enlisted the service in California with service number # 3417915.
Charles was KIA in the Okinawa assault by the Navy when they were attacked by various kamikaze who damaged the USS Facility on 28 March 1945, he is honored with a 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.
Charles is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Charles also has a Memorial Grave at Santa Fe National Cemetery
Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
Thanks to, http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02233.htm
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MVTS-MVG
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
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/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/
