Name:
Vernon L. Tebo
Rank:
Lieutenant
Serial Number:
0-121397
Unit:
VC-97
Date of Death:
1945-04-15
State:
Illinois
Cemetery:
Honolulu Memorial
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Born 21 April 1917, graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a B.S in Education and was a high school teacher. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 5 June 1941 and served aboard the USS Makassar Strait (CVE-91) in the attached Squadron VC-97. Pilot of his Grumman TBM Avenger and beheaded by the Japanese after he was shot down while flying a bombing mission over Ishigaki.