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Casualty Info
Home Town Keokuk, Iowa
Last Address Keokuk, IA
Casualty Date Feb 28, 1942
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Artillery, Rocket, Mortar
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Keokuk National Cemetery (VA) - Keokuk, Iowa
Wall/Plot Coordinates MA 8 (memorial marker)
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LTjg Kenneth "Kenny" Leon Kollmyer
U.S. Navy, O-082590
Killed in Action, Battle of Java Sea, WWII
LTjg Kenneth Kollmyer participated in the Battle of the Java Sea. He was killed in action 28 February 1942, when the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated an allied fleet. At the end of the seven-hour naval battle, five Allied vessels had gone to the bottom, few ships survived the Battle of the Java Sea. The USS Houston (CA-30) was sunk the next day in the Battle of Sunda Strait, 1 March 1942.
His body was not recovered. Memorial markers include the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American cemetery, at his home town of Keokuk, Iowa, and has a memorial marker at the Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo, Texas, where his parents lived.
