Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Allison Phidel Rhodes was born on 8 December 1919 in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was appointed Ensign, United States Naval Reserve on 2 June 1941 and after training was ordered to . Reporting for duty on that vessel on 10 January 1942, serving in the Battle of Midway, the landing on Guadalcanal and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Lieutenant (junior grade) Rhodes was killed in action in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942.