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Parker, Kenzie

Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Kenzie Parker.

Unit/Placed in, USS Mount Hood (AE-11) Ammunition Ship, United states Naval Reserve.

 

Kenzie is born approx. on 1928 in Police Jury Ward, Louisiana.

Father, Jules Parker.

Mother, Alice Parker.

Sister(s), Julia and Goldie Parker.

Brother(s), Shelby and Lyman Parker.

 

Kenzie enlisted the service in Louisiana with service number # 2753559.

 

Kenzie was KIA when the ammunition onboard the USS Mount Hood exploded on Nov.10, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

 

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

Walls of the missing.

 

Thanks to, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/AE-11.html

http://www.maritimequest.com/daily_event_archive/2007/pages/nov/10_uss_mt_hood_ae_11.htm

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com    Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/    Geoffrey Roecker

Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org

Website,

Philppine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com

 

 

 

 

 

USS Mount Hood (AE-11) Ammunition Ship
USS Mount Hood (AE-11), smoke cloud expanding, just after she exploded in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944. Photographed by a photographer of the 57th Construction Battalion, who had set up his camera to take pictures of the Battalion's camp.
His rank Seaman Second Class