USMC World War II
Pvt. Joseph A. Buono, MIA/KIA date of loss February 7, 1943 location Pacific Ocean,
Official date of death February 8, 1944
Unit Marine Detachment, SS Henry R. Mallory USNOB, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buono
Service # 502019
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Joseph was a Private in the United States Marine Corps.
He entered the Service from New York.
Missing in Action from USS Henry R. Mallory, en route to Liverpool. The ship was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland on February 7, 1943, with great loss of life. All those commemorated on this panel at Cambridge were victims of this tragedy.
[Whereas the grave markers at Cambridge show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 8-Feb-44]
"Go Down Like Marines": The Ill-Fated Voyage of SS Henry R. Mallory
Posted on January 15, 2023
he sinking of the liner-turned-transport Henry R. Mallory on Feb. 7, 1943, was a tragic event in the convoy battles of the North Atlantic. Built in Newport News, Va., in 1916, Mallory was quickly pressed into service as an Army transport and spent two years carrying troops to and from French ports. Returned to the Clyde-Mallory line in 1919, she sailed between New York and New Orleans in civilian livery for more than 20 years. In 1942, Mallory was again requisitioned for convoy duty. She completed one round trip from New York to Reykjavik before her fatal encounter with Kapitänleutnant Siegfried von Forstner's U-402. On her last voyage, Mallory carried a valuable cargo of tanks, clothing, cigarettes, and ammunition bound for Iceland; aboard were nearly 500 passengers and crew, 272 of whom perished at sea. Thirty of the dead were United States Marines—the only ones lost in the Atlantic convoys.
Pvt. Joseph A. Buono, MIA/KIA date of loss February 7, 1943 location Pacific Ocean,
Official date of death February 8, 1944
Unit Marine Detachment, SS Henry R. Mallory USNOB, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buono
Service # 502019
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Joseph was a Private in the United States Marine Corps.
He entered the Service from New York.
Missing in Action from USS Henry R. Mallory, en route to Liverpool. The ship was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland on February 7, 1943, with great loss of life. All those commemorated on this panel at Cambridge were victims of this tragedy.
[Whereas the grave markers at Cambridge show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 8-Feb-44]
"Go Down Like Marines": The Ill-Fated Voyage of SS Henry R. Mallory
Posted on January 15, 2023
he sinking of the liner-turned-transport Henry R. Mallory on Feb. 7, 1943, was a tragic event in the convoy battles of the North Atlantic. Built in Newport News, Va., in 1916, Mallory was quickly pressed into service as an Army transport and spent two years carrying troops to and from French ports. Returned to the Clyde-Mallory line in 1919, she sailed between New York and New Orleans in civilian livery for more than 20 years. In 1942, Mallory was again requisitioned for convoy duty. She completed one round trip from New York to Reykjavik before her fatal encounter with Kapitänleutnant Siegfried von Forstner's U-402. On her last voyage, Mallory carried a valuable cargo of tanks, clothing, cigarettes, and ammunition bound for Iceland; aboard were nearly 500 passengers and crew, 272 of whom perished at sea. Thirty of the dead were United States Marines—the only ones lost in the Atlantic convoys.
USMC World War II
Pvt. Joseph A. Buono, MIA/KIA date of loss February 7, 1943 location Pacific Ocean,
Official date of death February 8, 1944
Unit Marine Detachment, SS Henry R. Mallory USNOB, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buono
Service # 502019
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Joseph was a Private in the United States Marine Corps.
He entered the Service from New York.
Missing in Action from USS Henry R. Mallory, en route to Liverpool. The ship was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland on February 7, 1943, with great loss of life. All those commemorated on this panel at Cambridge were victims of this tragedy.
[Whereas the grave markers at Cambridge show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 8-Feb-44]
"Go Down Like Marines": The Ill-Fated Voyage of SS Henry R. Mallory
Posted on January 15, 2023
he sinking of the liner-turned-transport Henry R. Mallory on Feb. 7, 1943, was a tragic event in the convoy battles of the North Atlantic. Built in Newport News, Va., in 1916, Mallory was quickly pressed into service as an Army transport and spent two years carrying troops to and from French ports. Returned to the Clyde-Mallory line in 1919, she sailed between New York and New Orleans in civilian livery for more than 20 years. In 1942, Mallory was again requisitioned for convoy duty. She completed one round trip from New York to Reykjavik before her fatal encounter with Kapitänleutnant Siegfried von Forstner's U-402. On her last voyage, Mallory carried a valuable cargo of tanks, clothing, cigarettes, and ammunition bound for Iceland; aboard were nearly 500 passengers and crew, 272 of whom perished at sea. Thirty of the dead were United States Marines—the only ones lost in the Atlantic convoys.
Pvt. Joseph A. Buono, MIA/KIA date of loss February 7, 1943 location Pacific Ocean,
Official date of death February 8, 1944
Unit Marine Detachment, SS Henry R. Mallory USNOB, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buono
Service # 502019
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
Joseph was a Private in the United States Marine Corps.
He entered the Service from New York.
Missing in Action from USS Henry R. Mallory, en route to Liverpool. The ship was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland on February 7, 1943, with great loss of life. All those commemorated on this panel at Cambridge were victims of this tragedy.
[Whereas the grave markers at Cambridge show the date of death, the Tablets of the Missing do not, because without confirmed information to the contrary, the date of death of those who are listed as missing in action, lost or buried at sea in WWII is a presumed date of death established by a military review board, usually as a year and a day from that on which the individual was placed in "missing" status. The incident date and the presumed date of death are then not the same. His declared date of death is therefore 8-Feb-44]
"Go Down Like Marines": The Ill-Fated Voyage of SS Henry R. Mallory
Posted on January 15, 2023
he sinking of the liner-turned-transport Henry R. Mallory on Feb. 7, 1943, was a tragic event in the convoy battles of the North Atlantic. Built in Newport News, Va., in 1916, Mallory was quickly pressed into service as an Army transport and spent two years carrying troops to and from French ports. Returned to the Clyde-Mallory line in 1919, she sailed between New York and New Orleans in civilian livery for more than 20 years. In 1942, Mallory was again requisitioned for convoy duty. She completed one round trip from New York to Reykjavik before her fatal encounter with Kapitänleutnant Siegfried von Forstner's U-402. On her last voyage, Mallory carried a valuable cargo of tanks, clothing, cigarettes, and ammunition bound for Iceland; aboard were nearly 500 passengers and crew, 272 of whom perished at sea. Thirty of the dead were United States Marines—the only ones lost in the Atlantic convoys.
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