Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Philip William Ackerman.

Unit/Placed in on, USS Monsen (DD-436) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Philip is born in 1923 in Canastota, New York.18-6

Father, Edward J. Ackerman.

Mother, Dahlia Ackerman.

Philip enlisted the service in New York with service number # 2388182.

Philip was KIA when it was attacked and Sunk by the Japanese Navy at Guadalcanal on Nov. 13, 1942, Seaman First Class Philip W. Ackerman is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Wall of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/436.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/