Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Edward George Adams Jr..

Unit/Placed in, USS Shubrick (DD-639) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Edward is born in 1926 in Chicago.

Father,Edward G. Adams .

Mother, Catharine R. (Palmer) Adams

Edward enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # 7269100.

Edward was KIA when suddenly the USS Shubrick was attacked by 2 Kamikaze’s on May 27, 1945, he is honored with a  Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

Edward is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Courts of the Missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/639.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/