Rank and Name, Radioman Third Class Paul Thomas Adams.

Unit/Placed in,  USS Reno (CL-96) Cruiser, United States Navy.

Paul was born  in 1925 in Wichita, Kansas.

Father, Lou V. Adams.

Mother, Josephine M. (McDonogh) Adams.

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 Paul entered  the service from Kansas with service # 8662976.

Paul was KIA when the USS Reno was torpedoed by a Japanese Sub, on Nov 3, 1944, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navysite.de/cl/cl96.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/