Allen, Phillip Henry

Rank and Name, Seaman Second Class Phillip Henry Allen.

Unit/Placed in, SS Oregonian Passenger/Cargo, United States.

Phillip is born on May 16, 1922 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Father, Stephen Webb Allen II.

Mother, Crystal Iona (Shults) Allen.

Sister, Ella, Shirley May and Sandra Ione Allen.

Brother(s), Palmer Grant, Stephen Webb III and James E. Allen.

Phillip enlisted the service in Pennsylvania with service number # 6080886.

Phillip was KIA when the SS Oregonian (part of a convoy to Russia) carrying aircraft for Russia got torpedoed by a German Aircraft and sunk in the Baltic Sea on Sept. 14, 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Phillip is buried/mentioned at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.

Thanks to https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?165293

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MVN3-BZP

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

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

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com