World War II Honoree

Douglas M. Bacon

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Roosevelt, Utah

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Gunner’s Mate Third Class. Inducted into the United States Navy March 10, 1942 at Boise, Idaho, with recruit training at the U.S. Naval Training Station San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from boot camp and Gunnery Training, he was transferred to the USS Monterey Light Aircraft Carrier, CVL-26 for duty as a Gunner, assigned to Torpedo Squadron Twenty-Eight, in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Reported missing in action, lost at sea July 5, 1944 in the Mariana Islands. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Cedarview Cemetery in Roosevelt, Utah. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.