Bekke, Gerald Edgar
Navy Chief radioman

Gerald Edgar Bekke, age 23, from Fort Smith, Arkansas, Sebastian county.

Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart

Date of death: Sunday, October 7, 1945
Death details: Missing in action or buried at sea
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American; memorialized at Black Hills National

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, grave marker