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Jack Edwin Pancoast

Jack Edwin Pancoast

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Motor Machinist's Mate, Second Class
Service Number 250 41 33
Birth Date November 25, 1918
From West Homestead, Pennsylvania
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Grunion (SS-216)
Loss Date July 30, 1942
Location Near entrance to Kiska Harbor, Alaska
Circumstances Sunk by armed Japanese freighter Kano Maru
Remarks Jack was born in Lincoln Place, Pennsylvania.

Photo courtesy of Lila Beardsley, sister.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer and Ken McCarthy.

 

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