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S1C Forrest Dunfee “Jack” Ridenour
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S1C Forrest Dunfee “Jack” Ridenour

Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Death
9 Mar 1944 (aged 22)
Monument
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
Plot
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Seaman First Class Forrest D Ridenour, Oklahoma, Service #539464, U.S. Coast Guard, was serving aboard the Coastguard manned destroyer escort, the USS Leopold, when on 9 Mar, 1944, while she was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, "she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. B the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255." wrecksite.eu

S1C Ridenour was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.
Seaman First Class Forrest D Ridenour, Oklahoma, Service #539464, U.S. Coast Guard, was serving aboard the Coastguard manned destroyer escort, the USS Leopold, when on 9 Mar, 1944, while she was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, "she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. B the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255." wrecksite.eu

S1C Ridenour was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.

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Entered the service from Oklahoma.

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  • Maintained by: KsCityKim
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56293739/forrest_dunfee-ridenour: accessed ), memorial page for S1C Forrest Dunfee “Jack” Ridenour (3 Jul 1921–9 Mar 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56293739, citing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by KsCityKim (contributor 47766275).