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Joseph Gordon Chenoweth

Joseph Gordon Chenoweth

 Purple HeartPrisoner of War Medal

Rank/Rate Torpedoman's Mate, Second Class
Service Number 393 28 25
Birth Date December 17, 1919
From Sutherlin, Oregon
Decorations Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death September 7, 1944
Location Aboard Shinyo Maru
Circumstances Seriously wounded on Corregidor; died when Shinyo Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners ofWar from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Paddle (SS-263)
Remarks Joseph was born in Elko, Nevada.

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