World War II Honoree

Glen A. Myers

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Portland, Oregon

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Machinist’s Mate Second Class. Inducted into the United States Navy October 14, 1942 at Portland, Oregon, with recruit training at the U.S. Naval Training Station San Diego, California. Upon his graduation from boot camp and maintenance schooling, he was transferred to the USS Indianapolis Heavy Cruiser, CA-35 for duty, maintaining and repairing equipment. On July 26, 1945 the Cruiser and her shipmates were dispatched to the Philippine Islands for duty, after delivering top-secret cargo to the U.S. Air Base on Tinian Island Location: Western Pacific Theater of Operations. The warship was torpedoed by an Imperial Japanese Submarine July 30, 1945, while assigned to a radar picket station off-shore of Okinawa Location: Northwest Pacific Theater of Operations. Reported missing in action or buried at sea succeeding the attack. In remembrance of the brave, his name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippine Islands. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.