Timeline
Birth- 3 Mar 1921
French Canada
1939 - 1945World War II- Age: 23 years
Regiment
United States Navy
Rank
Aviation Radioman, First Class, U.S. Navy
Service Number
3117897
Awards
Purple Heart
Gold Star
Served For
United States of America
Conflict Period
World War II
Aircraft assignment
TBF/TBM Avenger "radioman" - operated radios and manned 30 caliber gun
Enlistment- 7 Aug 1941-Age: 20 years
Detroit Michigan
Stationed- 5 Sept 1942-Age: 22 years
Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
1943
Alameda, San Diego, Hilo & Kaneohe Hawaii
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Torpedo Squadron One (VT-1)
Casualty- 12 June 1944-Age: 23 years
Japanese AA guns
Near Orote Point Guam
Battle
Battle of Guadalcanal (Sep 1942 - Jan 1943)
Death- 19 Jan 1946
Death
19-Jan-46
Aircraft shot down by Japanese AA guns
12 June 1944
MIA Guam 12 June 1944 (1946 not the actual date of death)
Burial
Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Memorial Location
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Other Facts
Full Name
Harold E Mongraw
Father
Clarence Mongraw
Full Name
Harold Edwin Mongraw
Mother
Henriette Mongraw
Sibling
Frank Mongraw
State Of Residence
Michigan
Place of Residence
Kalamazoo
