US Navy WORLD WAR II
Chief Electrician's Mate, William M. Smith MIA/KIA Official Date of Death August 23, 1946
Hometown: Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332 location Netherlands East Indies, missing, date of loss August 22, 1945
Service # 2743809
Awards: Purple Heart, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Mission: 3rd War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
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Chief Electrician's Mate, William M. Smith MIA/KIA Official Date of Death August 23, 1946
Hometown: Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332 location Netherlands East Indies, missing, date of loss August 22, 1945
Service # 2743809
Awards: Purple Heart, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Mission: 3rd War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Chief Electrician's Mate, William M. Smith MIA/KIA Official Date of Death August 23, 1946
Hometown: Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332 location Netherlands East Indies, missing, date of loss August 22, 1945
Service # 2743809
Awards: Purple Heart, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Mission: 3rd War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
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Chief Electrician's Mate, William M. Smith MIA/KIA Official Date of Death August 23, 1946
Hometown: Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332 location Netherlands East Indies, missing, date of loss August 22, 1945
Service # 2743809
Awards: Purple Heart, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Mission: 3rd War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
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