US PARAS Jandro, Howard James

[Craig Robertson]

• SURNAME

Jandro​

• FORENAME

Howard James​

• UNIT

503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company E)​

• RANK

Private​

• NUMBER

37587661​

• DATE OF DEATH

23rd February 1945​

• AGE

20​

• GRAVESITE

Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Philippines. Tablet of the Missing​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 19.01.1925 Faribault, Minnesota, USA​

father Edward Simon Jandro (1901-1965)​

mother Elizabeth Mary (nee Vandeputte) Jandro (1901-1983)​

2 years high school​

civil occupation Farm hand, general farms​

employed by Northern Construction Company, 6803 Fox Avenue, Seattle, Washington​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

resided 6007½-12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington (draft card)​

19.01.1943 draft card Seattle, Washington​

01.02.1944 entered service Fort Snelling, Minnesota​

MIA Corregidor Island​

awarded Bronze Star & Silver Star Medals​

Pvt. Howard J Jandro was one of two troopers killed in a fight which erupted near the mouth of Cheney ravine. At dusk the troopers of Company 'E' dug in for the night, having failed to retrieve the bodies of their two fallen comrades because of the intensity of enemy fire. The following morning patrols into the previous evening's battle area discovered that the bodies of Pvt. Jandro and of 2nd Lt. Emory N. Ball were gone. They could only surmise that the Japanese had carted away the American corpses along with their own dead during the night. Whether the dead troopers were taken to a cave for burial or to the sea for the high tide to carry them away remains unknown. Source: Bennett M. Guthrie https://corregidor.org/taps/htm/jandro.htm​