Timeline
Birth- 9/09/1922
Moscow Minnesota
1939 - 1945World War II- Age: 22 years
Conflict Period
World War II
Rank
Aviation Radioman, Second Class, U.S. Navy
Awards
Purple Heart
Service Number
3291736
Regiment
United States Navy
Served For
United States of America
Gold Star
Aircraft assignment
TBF/TBM Avenger "radioman" - operated radios and manned 30 caliber gun
Stationed- 1943
Alameda, San Diego, Hilo & Kaneohe Hawaii
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Torpedo Squadron One (VT-1)
Enlistment- 30/06/1942-Age: 20 years
Austin Minnesota
Casualty- 9/07/1944-Age: 22 years
Japanese AA guns
Agana Heights, Guam
Death- 4/02/1946
Death
4-Feb-46
Aircraft shot down by Japanese AA guns
9/07/1944
MIA Guam 9 July 1944 (1946 not the actual date of death)
Burial
Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Honolulu, Hawaii
Memorial Location
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial Honolulu, Hawaii
Other Facts
State Of Residence
Minnesota
Full Name
James S Buchanan
Also Known As
"Buck"
Father
John Guy Buchanan
Full Name
James Stewart Buchanan
Mother
Mary Daisey Mae Buchanan (Becker)
Sibling
Donald, Irene, Earl, Duane, Genevieve, Mary, John, Gordon, Neil
