Elwood J. Euart

World War II
Service #0-374388
Unit103rd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division
RankCaptain U.S. Army
Entered Service From Rhode Island
Date of DeathOctober 26 1942
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
7
Distinguished Service Cross
Distinguished Service Cross
Notes
Captain Euart died while rescuing soldiers on board the USAT President Coolidge when it sank at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Partial remains were recovered by a civilian diver in 2012. A JPAC underway recovery teams discovered additional remains in 2014. CAPT Euart remains were identified. His remains are interred at a private cemetery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.