Goodier, Benjamin Doolittle
First Name
Benjamin
Middle Name
Doolittle
Last Name
Goodier
Serial Number
84502
Service Branch
Naval Reserve
Highest Rank
LT
War or Action
World War II
County
Garfield
Biography

Graduated Colorado School of Mines in 1922. Taken prisoner of war in the Philippines and taken aboard prison ship Oryoky Maru. Survived inadvertent sinking of ship on December 15, 1944 by American planes at Subic Bay and placed aboard prison ship Enoura Maru. Died of wounds after bomb from attacking USS Hornet plane inadvertently struck ship on January 9, 1945. Initially buried at Taiwan in attempted mass cremation. Remains ultimately repatriated to Hawaii and buried as unknown. Served in the Civil Engineering Corp.

Place Of Burial
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii
Place Of Death
Takao Harber, Formosa (Taiwan)
Circumstances
Missing In Action (Died Prisoner Of War)
Row Number
78
Column Number
4
Panel Number
3

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