Alvin Martin Bright

Manila American Cemetery (above)

USS Abner Read (below)

Alvin Martin Bright

1911 - November 1, 1944

In Memory of 

Our Beloved Son & Brother

SEAMAN 1/C   USS ABNER READ

US NAVAL RESERVE

son. Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo Bright, Brothers, Oregon

brother of Clifford H Bright

Family is buried together

The USS Abner Read, DD-526, a Fletcher Class Destroyer

was attacked by a kamikaze pilot in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines

The ship was sunk and 24 hands were killed

- the rest were rescued.

Lost at sea, Alvin Bright is memorialized in
the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery

and with this marker with his family.

American Battle Monuments Commission
http://www.abmc.gov/search/wwii.php

Enter bright alvin to see his memorial page

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