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IVAN JOEL MATTHEWS
Born: June 13, 1919
Radioman Second Class, United States Navy
Service# 3685378
USS MONSSEN (DD-436)
Gleaves-class destroyer, commissioned March 14, 1941
Date of Enlistment: November 13, 1940
Home or Place of Enlistment:
Boise
, Idaho
Date of Loss
: November 13, 1942
Missing in Action
during combat operations against Imperial
Japanese Forces at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
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