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

Section 5

Lloyd H Magill, Jr

Manilla American Cemetery

Lloyd H Magill, Jr

February 24, 1918 - December 15, 1944

2nd LT   US ARMY

WORLD WAR II

PURPLE HEART

son Oreta M & Lloyd H Magill

His name is listed in The Tablets of the Missing
in the Manila American Cemetery

Mausoleum

http://www.proviso.k12.il.us/bataan%20Web/Magill.htm

The following list contains the names and addresses of the approximately 1,619 prisoners of war (primarily American) who were herded aboard the Japanese ship Oryoku Maru on December 13, 1944 for transfer to Japan. We believe that the list was obtained from captured documents presented at the time of the war crimes trial.  http://www.oryokumaruonline.org/search.html 
and http://www.west-point.org/family/japanese-pow/Erickson_OM.htm
This recently unclassified information changes his death date to January 24, 1945

Lost during World War II - not recovered - http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA/ARM_M_M.HTM

Article about POW camp Lloyd Magill was held in:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5c0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lB8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=lloyd%20magill&pg=4194%2C1500567