Years of service 1939–42 | Awards Air Medal Name Ted Scroggins | |
Rank Aviation Radioman 2nd Class Died June 15, 1942, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States | ||
Allegiance United States of America Service/branch United States Navy | ||
Ted H. Scroggins was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on 13 September 1918 and enlisted in the United States Navy on 7 December 1939. Aviation Radioman Second Class Scroggins was awarded the Air Medal posthumously for his devotion to duty in the face of adverse weather and persistent enemy antiaircraft fire, during patrol missions and bombing attacks on Japanese ships in Kiska Harbor. He was lost in action on 15 June 1942 on an air mission in the Aleutians.
Namesake
In 1943, the destroyer escort USS Scroggins (DE-799) was named in honor of AR/2c Scroggins, sponsored by his sister, Mrs. Dartha Hardin.
References
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