Rank and Name, Gunners Mate Second Class John Leonard Kacere.
Unit/Placed in, SS Robin Goodfellow (American Steam Merchant), United States Naval Reserve.
John is born on 1924 in Oco, Belmont County, Ohio.
Father, Emil Kaczor.
Mother, Josefa (Zera) Kaczor.
Parents born in Poland.
Sister(s), Virginia, Jacqueline Helea and Stehanie Kaczor.
Brother(s), Joseph Kaczor.
John enlisted the service in Ohio with service number # 6140904.
John was KIA when the SS Robin Goodfellow was Torpedoed in the Atlantic by the German U-862 on, 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.
John is buried/mentioned at North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to, https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/3298.html
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
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
WW2 Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Medals Forum, https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/
On July 25th 1944, the U.S. freighter Robin Goodfellow is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-862 (later I-502) while on route from Cape Town, South Africa, to New York, carrying a cargo of 8,602tons of chrome ore.
All hands (including the 27 Armed Guard sailors and the 41-man merchant complement) perish.
Thanks to,
https://www.wrecksite.eu
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