Joseph Akers | American Battle Monuments Commission

World War II

Service #	35432212
Unit	803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Rank	Corporal U.S. Army
Entered Service From	West Virginia
Date of Death	November 25 1944
Status	Recovered
Memorialized	Tablets of the Missing Netherlands American Cemetery Netherlands American Cemetery AM Begraafplaats 1 6269 NA Margraten Netherlands

803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion

Bronze Star

Purple Heart

Bronze Star, Purple Heart

Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. Joseph Akers were accounted for in 2018. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Walls of the Missing” at the Netherlands American Cemetery.

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.