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Arthur Allen Gurganus

 Arthur Allen GurganusArthur Allen Gurganus

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Torpedoman (Warrant Officer)
Service Number W-319695
Birth Date July 24, 1910
From Kansas, Alabama
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Cisco (SS-290)
Loss Date September 28, 1943
Location In the Sulu Sea west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Circumstances Probably sunk by air and surface attack
Remarks Arthur was born in Corona, Alabama.

Photo on left courtesy of the staff of the Linn-Henley Research Library, Birmingham (Alabama) Public Library, via Vicki Nelson.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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