Albert M. Hovey

Boatswain’s Mate Second Class • U.S. Navy • Serial 02437994

USS Maddox (DD-622)

Entered service from New Jersey • Died July 10, 1943

Missing in action or buried at sea — Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii

Awards: Purple Heart

Boatswain’s Mate Second Class Albert Merton Hovey served aboard the destroyer USS Maddox (DD-622) during World War II. He was killed on July 10, 1943, when the Maddox was sunk off Sicily during the Allied invasion of that island. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial in Hawaii, and on the Gloucester Township, NJ, World War II memorial.