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Kenneth James
Matchett
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Rank/Rate |
Boatswain's Mate, Second Class |
Service Number |
223 34 11 |
Birth Date |
September 26, 1912 |
From |
Brooklyn, New York |
Decorations |
Purple Heart, Prisoner of
War Medal |
Ship |
USS Canopus (AS-9) |
Date of Death |
October 24, 1944 |
Location |
Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru |
Circumstances |
Died when Arisan Maru, transporting
Allied Prisoners of War
from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark
(SS-314) |
Remarks |
Kenneth was born in Enfield, Maine |
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