Rank/Rate	Electrician's Mate, First Class
Service Number	355 87 41
Birth Date	December 10, 1915
From	Ranger, Texas
Decorations	Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	October 24, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances	Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks	Woodrow was born in Petrolia, Texas.

Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

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