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Edwin Leroy Tinsley

Edwin Leroy Tinsley

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Motor Machinist's Mate, Third Class
Service Number 648 42 31
Birth Date February 23, 1924
From Omaha, Nebraska
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Scamp (SS-277)
Loss Date November 16, 1944
Location Off Inubo Saki near Tokyo Bay
Circumstances Probably lost in a depth charge attack
Remarks Edwin was born in Spencer, Nebraska.

Photo courtesy of Gordon Rink, son of Scamp shipmate Richard George Rink. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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