Rank and Name, Fireman First Class Curry Ezell Scott.
Unit/Placed in, USS LST-342, United States Navy.
Curry is born approx. on 9 June 1925 in Azle, Texas.
Father, Joe Weire Scott.
Mother, Eva (Kinser) Scott.
Sister(s), Gladys Raye, Vera Louise, Eva Edwyne and Lyna Kaye Scott.
Brother(s), R. V. James Hugh, Paul, William Kinser and Harry Newton Scott.
Curry enlisted the service in Texas with service number # 3568033.
Curry was KIA when the LST-342 was struck by a torpedo from the Japanese submarine Ro-106 off the Solomon Islands on July 18, 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.
Curry is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Curry also has a Memorial Grave at Ash Creek Cemetery, Azle, Tarrant County, Texas, USA.
Thanks to, https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?14084
https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160342.htm
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMZD-CYW
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/
