Rank and Name,  Chief Storekeeper Curtis Adcock.

Unit/placed in,  USS Langley (CV-1) Carrier, United States Navy.

Curtis was born  in Tennessee.

Mother,Bedie (Brantton) Adcock .

Sister and Brothers, unknown.

Curtis entered  the Service from Alabama with service-number # 2717259.

Curtis was KIA  when the ship and the Escorts were attacked by several Japanese planes near Australia, on Feb. 27, 1942, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/shipprofiles/p/usslangley.htm Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC,  https://abmc.gov Info P.O.W.

Wes Injerd, Dwight Rider: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society, Sean Conjenos, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org Navy Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/ Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/