Covey, Hershel Lee, SSgt

Fallen

Service Photo

Service Details

Last Rank
Staff Sergeant

Primary Unit
1942-1942, Status - POW/MIA

Service Years
1933 - 1942

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Indiana

Year of Birth
1915

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Casualty Info

Home Town Greencastle, Indiana	Last Address Cabanatuan POW Camp, Philippines

Casualty Date Jul 17, 1942
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity	Reason Illness, Disease
Location Philippines	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Clark Veterans Cemetery - Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines	Wall/Plot Coordinates Section C Plot 2B Grave 12H

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	2013, World War II Fallen

Ribbon Bar

Unit Assignments


	1941-1942, 24th Pursuit Group, Interceptor
	1942-1942, Status - POW/MIA

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1941-1942 WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)
	1942-1942 WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)/Bataan Death March

My Aircraft/Missiles


	1941-1942, P-35 Seversky
	1941-1942, P-40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

Not much is known about him. He first enlisted in 1933 but possibly had 1 or more breaks in service between then and 1940. His MOS is also unknown. He is memorialized at Clark AB Cemetery, Cabanatuan Memorial, and on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery but it is unclear exactly where he is buried even though Clark seems the most probable site.

Comments/Citation:

Sources:
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=F&q=hershel+l+covey&bc=&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=29041
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=2212&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=F&q=hershel+l+covey&bc=&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=6177
http://www.cvcra.org/content-profiles-of-veterans/2.%20SSGT%20HERSHEL%20LEE%20COVEY.pdf
http://lists.topica.com/lists/OzCrashes/read/message.html?mid=808364931&sort=t&start=964.
http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWII_102333#.Vagj6lxX_zI
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56759662
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69158568
https://www.ancestry.com