Fight or else over Alaska 1944

Name and Rank, Ensign Helen Mary Roehler.

Unit/Placid in, 28th Field Hospital, Naval Base Mears Dutch Harbor, Alaska, United States Navy.

Helen was born approx. on 10 July 1918 in Minnesota.

Father, William L. Roehler.

Mother, Carrie Roehler.

Sister, Valerie, Mary and Adela Roehler

Brother, Henry and Oscar Roehler.

Helen entered the service from Minnesota with service number # no record.

Helen M. Roehler was a nurse in the United States Navy.

Ensign Helen M. Roehler and her colleges, Lt. Lucille Hendricks and Ensign Ruby Touquan got Killed as passengers, with Pilot Lt. Leroy McElroy, when the plane a Grumman J4F-2, flew from Dutch Harbor to Otter Point, Umnak Island, Alaska and crashed on Mount Idak, in Alaska on April 23, 1944.

Helen is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County,

Minnesota, USA.

Thanks to Three Norco nurses who died in World War II are forgotten no longer – Press Enterprise (pe.com)

https://www.myamericannurse.com/three-nurses-died-world-war-ii-forgotten-no-longer/

https://www.facebook.com/rememberthosewhoserved/posts/1323532921029292/

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

National Historian

Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/

Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org

Website, https://hendrikswebdesign.nl/

Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com

Rank and Name, Machinist’s Mate Third Class John Henry Ashby.

Unit/Placed in, 8^th Special Naval Construction Battalion, United States Navy.

John is born approx. on 15 March 1916 in Illinois.

Father, Earl Ashby.

Mother, Ella (Carney) Ashby.

Brother(s), ????? Ashby.

Spouse, Alma (Mitchell) Ashby.

John enlisted the service in Illinois with service number # 8513683.

John died in the Aleutians (Alaska) on 14 Dec. 1944, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

John is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

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