Military Involvement

Servicemen * Ri - ServiceMen

John Junior Rieman was born Feb. 23, 1927 to John and Grace Florence Sheppard Rieman. He died Apr. 7, 1945 and is memorialized at the Courts of the Missing, Court 1, Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Petty Officer Rieman served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Hancock (CV-19) and was MIA/KIA when a kamikaze cartwheeled across her flight deck and crashed into a group of planes, while its bomb hit the port catapult and caused a tremendous explosion. 62 men were killed and 71 wounded. He was awarded the Purple Heart.

Source: ancestry.com

ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Mar 2019