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Jesse Leo Appel

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Rank/Rate Seaman, First Class
Service Number 626 44 14
Birth Date June 27, 1922
From Evansville, Indiana
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Pompano (SS-181)
Loss Date September 17, 1943
Location Off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan
Circumstances Lost at sea, cause unknown
Remarks Some sources spell his first name "Jessie."

Photo on left courtesy of Daniel Smith, Vanderburgh Public Library, via Vicki Nelson.  Photo on right courtesy of Janice Bowen.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.  Photo of his marker (below), with his first name spelled "Jessie," from Find A Grave.

Jessie (Jesse) Leo Appel marker

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