Yoder, Dale Richard – ww2 Europe

Rank and Name, Corporal Dale Richard Yoder.

Unit/Placed in, HTM Rohna (troopship), Army Air Corps.

HTM Rohna

On November 26, 1943, during WWII, one thousand, one hundred and thirty eight men perished when a British troopship, the HMT Rohna, was attacked from the air and destroyed in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Algeria

Dale was born approx. on March 18,1921 in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Father, Wiley S. Yoder.

Mother, Flo Ella Yoder.

Sister, Gladys Yoder.

Brothers, Palmer and Gerald Yoder.

Dale entered the service from Pennsylvania with service number # 33309409.

Dale R. Yoder was a Corporal in the Army Air Corps.

Dale was KIA when on transport onboard the troopship HTM Rohna, they sailed in convoy when they were attacked by German airplanes witch were loaded with Henschel Hs 293 radio-guided, rocket-boosted glide bombs.

The Convoy opened fire and it seems that HTM Rohna was the only ship that was hit and sunk .

More than 1,100 people were killed, most of whom were US troops, on Nov. 26, 1943, he is honored with a Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Dale is buried at North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage,

Tunis, Tunisia.

Tablets of the Missing

Thanks to http://www.dvrbs.com/rohna/ROHNAINDEX.HTM

https://www.history.navy.mil/about-us/leadership/director/directors-corner/h-grams/h-gram-022/h-022-2.html

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and 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.