Name:
Joseph Louis Zalom
Rank:
Aviation Radio Tech Petty Officer 1st Class
Serial Number:
6110303
Unit:
U.S.S. Ranger
Date of Death:
1943-10-04
State:
Illinois
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Joseph Louis Zalom was born on February 27, 1921, in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of his death, ART1C Zalom was serving in the VT-4 Squadron aboard the USS Ranger. He was Killed in Action on October 4, 1943, during the Operation Leader in Bodo, Norway. A crew member of an aircraft piloted by Lt(JG) John H. Palmer, ART1C Zalom was killed in the crash of their plane after being hit by anti-aircraft fire..
Zaloms' body was never found. His name is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov, www.history.navy.mil