Rank and Name, Coxwain John Francis Allard.

Unit/Placed in, USS Belleau Wood ( CVL-24) Carrier, United States Navy.

John is born on April 19, 1925 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Father, Earnest E. Allard.

Mother, Agnes M. Allard.

Sisters, Agnes M and Rita V. Allard.

Brother, Earnest Allard Jr.

John enlisted the service in Rhode Island with service number # 2052687.

John was KIA when the USS Belleau Wood was attacked and hit by a Kamikaze plane east off Leyte Gulf on Oct. 30, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/24.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/