Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Pershing Landes.

Unit/Placed in, Casu-1 (Land-based service unit), United States Naval Reserve.

Joseph is born approx. on/in New York.

Parents and Siblings, No Record Available.

Joseph enlisted the service in New York with service number # O-158180.

Joseph died in a accident when he made a test-flight with a TBM-1c (torpedo-Bomber) from Pearl on Sep. 27, 1944, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Joseph is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

Thanks to Jean Louis Vijgen, ABMC, https://abmc.gov

P.O.W. info, Wes Injerd and Dwight Rider, http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Air-Force info, Rolland Swank NavyLog, http://navylog.navymemorial.org Familysearch.com, https://www.familysearch.org

Philippine Scouts Heritage Society,http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Marines Info Geoffrey Roecker, https://missingmarines.com/   

Medals Info, http://www.honorstates.org    

Hendriks Webdesign, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

N.A.S. Hilo

https://books.google.nl/books?id=cI7rEUDQ6lEC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=navy+hilo+ww2&source=bl&ots=YNDpokyU-h&sig=IPYAIMK8RemtrlYcP9xkyJoA-ik&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr4t7pmoffAhXHEVAKHdvoCjoQ6AEwCHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=navy%20hilo%20ww2&f=false

Plane info,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_TBF_Avenger

https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/USN/LLSep44.htm