Story County

 

Earl Frederic Bonjour

 

 

 

Earl Frederic Bonjour was born to Herman and Grace Christopher Bonjour. He died Aug. 23, 1943 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial, New York, NY.

Petty Officer Bonjour served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Ingraham (DD-444) and was MIA/KIA when that ship collided with the oil tanker, Chemung, in heavy fog off the coast of Nova Scotia and sank almost immediately.

Sources: ancestry.com