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Robert Edmund Bailey

Robert Edmund BaileyRobert Edmund Bailey in uniform

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Ship's Cook, Third Class
Service Number 724 70 92
Birth Date December 21, 1922
From Moline, Illinois
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Wahoo (SS-238)
Loss Date October 11, 1943
Location In La Perouse Strait, Northern Japan
Circumstances Sunk by a combination of air attack and depth charging
Remarks Robert was born in Gary, Indiana.

Photos courtesy of Carole Westfall Lockrem 1st cousin, and Tom Westfall Jr. 2nd cousin. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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