Rank and Name,Signalman Third Class Frank Elgin Alexander.

Unit/Placed in,USS Grunion (SS-216) Submarine, United States Navy.

Frank is born on Jan. 19, 1915 in Elyra, Ohio.

Father, J. Henry Alexander.

Sister, Drusilla Alexander.

Frank enlisted the service in New York with service number # 2237903.

Frank was KIA when it was Sunk by the Japanese armed Freighter Kano Maru, near the Kiska Harbor, Alaska entry on, July 30, 1942, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat action ibbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

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

Courts of the missing.

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