Name and Rank, Ensign Helen Mary Roehler.
Unit/Placid in, 28th Field Hospital, Naval Base Mears Dutch Harbor, Alaska, United States Navy.
Helen was born approx. on 10 July 1918 in Minnesota.
Father, William L. Roehler.
Mother, Carrie Roehler.
Sister, Valerie, Mary and Adela Roehler
Brother, Henry and Oscar Roehler.
Helen entered the service from Minnesota with service number # no record.
Helen M. Roehler was a nurse in the United States Navy.
Ensign Helen M. Roehler and her colleges, Lt. Lucille Hendricks and Ensign Ruby Touquan got Killed as passengers, with Pilot Lt. Leroy McElroy, when the plane a Grumman J4F-2, flew from Dutch Harbor to Otter Point, Umnak Island, Alaska and crashed on Mount Idak, in Alaska on April 23, 1944.
Helen is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County,
Minnesota, USA.
Thanks to Three Norco nurses who died in World War II are forgotten no longer – Press Enterprise (pe.com)
https://www.myamericannurse.com/three-nurses-died-world-war-ii-forgotten-no-longer/
https://www.facebook.com/rememberthosewhoserved/posts/1323532921029292/
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
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
