Rank/Rate	Specialist, First Class
Service Number	402 71 86
Birth Date	August 16, 1915
From	Hollywood, California
Decorations	Silver Star, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Command	Part of a Special Reconnaissance Detachment carried aboard USS Burrfish (SS-312)
Loss Date	August 20, 1944*
Location	Gagil Tomil, Yap
Circumstances	Taken prisoner while on reconnaissance mission. Executed in captivity.
Remarks	John was born in Tarrytown, New York.

*Date of capture, according to Japanese sources.
Photo and information from USS Burrfish Reconnaissance of Yap on 13 August 1944. Additional information also from Sue Ann Dunford, author of More Than Scuttlebutt - U.S. Navy Demolition Men in WWII.

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