World War II
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MIA

County:
Adams

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Navy

Rank:
MoMM1c

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
United States Navy

Circumstances:

Died while in MIA status. Member of the crew on the USS Trigger, which was reported as lost/MIA while patrolling a known mined area of the East China Sea.

Biography:

Postwar Japanese records showed a Japanese aircraft detected and bombed a submarine in March of 1945, which may have been the USS Trigger.