Adams, Richard Lee
Navy Seaman 2nd class

Richard Lee Adams from Lawrence County Lawrenceville, Illinois .

Parents: Dorothy May Adams Fiscus

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, March 1, 1942
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Houston when the ship was attacked traveling from Batavia to Java.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery

Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, USSHouston.org, Daily Republican Register (1946)