Enlisted on 9 April 1940 in Louisville, Kentucky
Seaman First Class, 2873876, U.S. Navy
Missing in Action from USS Houston (CA-30) along with his brother Roy Wilford Anglin.
The Houston went down in action on 1 March 1942 against a Japanese Invasion Task Force on the south coast of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait. Of the original crew of 1,061, 368 crew members made it to shore and were captured by the Japanese, 291 would survive to the end of the war.
(15 Dec 1945 is the date the Navy declared him dead, no body recovered.)
Seaman First Class, 2873876, U.S. Navy
Missing in Action from USS Houston (CA-30) along with his brother Roy Wilford Anglin.
The Houston went down in action on 1 March 1942 against a Japanese Invasion Task Force on the south coast of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait. Of the original crew of 1,061, 368 crew members made it to shore and were captured by the Japanese, 291 would survive to the end of the war.
(15 Dec 1945 is the date the Navy declared him dead, no body recovered.)
Enlisted on 9 April 1940 in Louisville, Kentucky
Seaman First Class, 2873876, U.S. Navy
Missing in Action from USS Houston (CA-30) along with his brother Roy Wilford Anglin.
The Houston went down in action on 1 March 1942 against a Japanese Invasion Task Force on the south coast of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait. Of the original crew of 1,061, 368 crew members made it to shore and were captured by the Japanese, 291 would survive to the end of the war.
(15 Dec 1945 is the date the Navy declared him dead, no body recovered.)
Seaman First Class, 2873876, U.S. Navy
Missing in Action from USS Houston (CA-30) along with his brother Roy Wilford Anglin.
The Houston went down in action on 1 March 1942 against a Japanese Invasion Task Force on the south coast of Java during the Battle of Sunda Strait. Of the original crew of 1,061, 368 crew members made it to shore and were captured by the Japanese, 291 would survive to the end of the war.
(15 Dec 1945 is the date the Navy declared him dead, no body recovered.)
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Made the supreme sacrifice on the USS Houston.
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