Rudolph Ballough

MM1c | Lost at Sea (19 January 1942)

Overview

Rudolph Ballough was one of three men who did not reach shore.

PT-31 Incident

Remained with the raft and disappeared before dawn.

Wartime Fate

Listed as missing in DeLong’s roster and among the three men absent after the raft breakup; his ABMC Manila American Cemetery record identifies him as Missing In Action, entered from New York, awarded the Purple Heart, and still without a rosette, while DPAA’s New York WWII not-recovered list gives him as a United States Navy loss dated 22 January 1942 in the South Pacific Ocean, preserving the formal missing-status trail even though the location wording is less precise than the PT-31 narrative.

Research Notes

Confidence: Confirmed
Absence of all later records strongly supports this conclusion.