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information-about-overseas-service: Aboard U.S.S. Lyman,
Destroyer Escort (DE. 302). Lyman Commissioned Mare Island,
California 1944-02-19. To Hawaiian Islands 1944-04-dd;
Submarine manuvers out of Pearl Harbor; escorting to
Marshalls; first invasion, to Palau Islands 1944-09-dd;
1944-10-30 arrive Russell Islands escorting First Marine
Division; 1944-11-17 to new operating base - Ulithi -;
1944-12-dd with Third Fleet Phillipine operation, hitting a
typhoon; 1944-12-25 Christmas at Guam; 1945-02-19
D-Day at Iwo Jima operating with Fifth Fleet; 1945-03-26,
arrival in Okinawa invasion area; 1945-06-05 typhoon; 1945-07-dd
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Off coast of Japan with Third Fleet; 1945-08-15 Japs surrendered - back to Ulithi
Palau Iwo Jima Okinawa Jananese Homeland Raid

citations-decorations-service-medals-etc: American Campaign Medal,
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and World War II
Victory Medal

circumstances-of-death: Died of Sickness

area-of-place-of-death: Aboard USS Cache - Pacific Area

date-of-death: 1945-08-17

any-other-details-known: Burial services conducted at sea from USS
Lyman, Latitude 15° 33' No. Longitude 143° 35' East with
full military honors

photograph: Yes

next-of-kin

prefix:

first-name: Josephine

middle-name: Irene

last-name: La Flamme

suffix:

address: 1720 N. Quinn St., Arl, Va.

relationship: Widow

people-supplying-this-information

prefix:

first-name: Josephine

middle-name: Irene

last-name: La Flamme

suffix:

address: 1720 N. Quinn St., Arlington, Va.

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