Rank and Name, Aviation Ordnanceman First Class Benjiman (Benjamin) Arthur Scott.
Unit/Placed in, USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) Carrier, United States Navy.
Benjamin is born approx. on 24 Oct. 1912 in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Father, Harlie Agan Scott.
Mother, Clara Ellen (Atkins) Scott.
Sister(s), Vida Bell, Bessie Mae, Lula Ruth and Mary Alice Scott.
Brother(s), Jezzie Emmet, Willie Ozell, Harlie Adolphus, Horace Edward, Roy Lee and Jack W. Scott.
Spouse, Illa Mae Scott.
Benjamin enlisted the service in Oklahoma with service number # 3934234.
Benjamin was KIA when the USS Liscome Bay was sunk by the Japanese Sub I-175 on Nov. 24, 1943, 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.
is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Thanks to, https://pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/CVE-56.html
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZD9-QR2
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.
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/
