Babb, Milton, William

Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Milton William Babb.

Unit/Placed in, SS Jack Carnes Tanker, United States Naval Reserve.

Milton is born on 2 Augustus 1923 in Edwards County, Texas.

Father, Bryan William Babb.

Mother, Ida May (Goldsmith) Babb.

Sister(s), Dorothy Leigh and Dorothy Leigh Babb.

Milton enlisted the service in Texas with service number # 6242268.

Milton was KIA when the SS Jack Carnes was attacked by the German Uboat U-516 and after its 7^th hit it broke in two and sank on 1 September 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.

Milton is buried/mentioned at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://uboat.net/boats/u516.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LK73-56P

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

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