Rank/Rate	Carpenter's Mate, Third Class
Service Number	321 14 77
Birth Date	January 7, 1918
From	Des Moines, Iowa
Decorations	Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	October 24, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances	Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks	Benjamin was born in Carlisle, Iowa.

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