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Olin Jacobs

Olin Jacobs

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Motor Machinist's Mate, First Class
Service Number 295 50 32
Birth Date September 26, 1917
From Elizabethton, Tennessee
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238)
Loss Date October 11, 1943
Location In La Perouse Strait, Northern Japan
Circumstances Sunk by a combination of air attack and depth charging
Remarks Olin was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

Photo courtesy of his widow via Charles Lipford.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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