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Gordon Phillips Hoover

Gordon Phillips Hoover

 

Rank/Rate Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Service Number O-166875
Birth Date November 1, 1916
From Wilmington, Delaware
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 Gordon was born in Chicago, Illinois.  He was a 1939 Yale graduate, and classmate of Lawrence DeForest Anderson and Richard Harold Seligman, both lost on USS Runner.

Photo and information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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