Chief Electrician's Mate, Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Ship: USS Sealion (SS-195)
Service # 3755743
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain:
Mission: Defense of the Philippines
Date Of Death: 10-Dec-41
Location: Cavite, Philippine Islands
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: 5 officers, 54 enlisted 4KIA 1 POW
Chief Electrician's O'Connell was KIA in an air attack while in Harbor at Cavite.
In the spring of 1940 SEALION sailed, with her division for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Cavite in the fall to commence operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. Into October 1941, she ranged from Luzon into the Sulu Archipelago, then, with another submarine of her division, now SubDiv 202, she prepared for a regular overhaul at the Cavite Navy Yard. By 8 December, her yard period had begun; and, two days later, she took two direct hits in the Japanese air raid which demolished the navy yard.
The first bomb struck the after end of her conning tower and exploded outside the hull, over the control room. The second smashed through a main ballast tank and the pressure hull to explode in the after engine room, killing the four men then working there. In addition, one crewman died while a POW.
Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. Her keel was laid down on 20 June 1938 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 May 1939 sponsored by Mrs. Claude C. Bloch, and commissioned on 27 November 1939, Lieutenant J. K. Morrison Jr. in command.
USS Sealion Crew KIA and Died as POW
Howard Firth POW
Howard Firth POW
Sterling C. Foster KIA
Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Vallentyne L. Paul KIA
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Ship: USS Sealion (SS-195)
Service # 3755743
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain:
Mission: Defense of the Philippines
Date Of Death: 10-Dec-41
Location: Cavite, Philippine Islands
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: 5 officers, 54 enlisted 4KIA 1 POW
Chief Electrician's O'Connell was KIA in an air attack while in Harbor at Cavite.
In the spring of 1940 SEALION sailed, with her division for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Cavite in the fall to commence operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. Into October 1941, she ranged from Luzon into the Sulu Archipelago, then, with another submarine of her division, now SubDiv 202, she prepared for a regular overhaul at the Cavite Navy Yard. By 8 December, her yard period had begun; and, two days later, she took two direct hits in the Japanese air raid which demolished the navy yard.
The first bomb struck the after end of her conning tower and exploded outside the hull, over the control room. The second smashed through a main ballast tank and the pressure hull to explode in the after engine room, killing the four men then working there. In addition, one crewman died while a POW.
Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. Her keel was laid down on 20 June 1938 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 May 1939 sponsored by Mrs. Claude C. Bloch, and commissioned on 27 November 1939, Lieutenant J. K. Morrison Jr. in command.
USS Sealion Crew KIA and Died as POW
Howard Firth POW
Howard Firth POW
Sterling C. Foster KIA
Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Vallentyne L. Paul KIA
Chief Electrician's Mate, Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Ship: USS Sealion (SS-195)
Service # 3755743
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain:
Mission: Defense of the Philippines
Date Of Death: 10-Dec-41
Location: Cavite, Philippine Islands
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: 5 officers, 54 enlisted 4KIA 1 POW
Chief Electrician's O'Connell was KIA in an air attack while in Harbor at Cavite.
In the spring of 1940 SEALION sailed, with her division for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Cavite in the fall to commence operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. Into October 1941, she ranged from Luzon into the Sulu Archipelago, then, with another submarine of her division, now SubDiv 202, she prepared for a regular overhaul at the Cavite Navy Yard. By 8 December, her yard period had begun; and, two days later, she took two direct hits in the Japanese air raid which demolished the navy yard.
The first bomb struck the after end of her conning tower and exploded outside the hull, over the control room. The second smashed through a main ballast tank and the pressure hull to explode in the after engine room, killing the four men then working there. In addition, one crewman died while a POW.
Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. Her keel was laid down on 20 June 1938 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 May 1939 sponsored by Mrs. Claude C. Bloch, and commissioned on 27 November 1939, Lieutenant J. K. Morrison Jr. in command.
USS Sealion Crew KIA and Died as POW
Howard Firth POW
Howard Firth POW
Sterling C. Foster KIA
Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Vallentyne L. Paul KIA
Hometown: San Francisco, California
Ship: USS Sealion (SS-195)
Service # 3755743
Awards: Purple Heart
Captain:
Mission: Defense of the Philippines
Date Of Death: 10-Dec-41
Location: Cavite, Philippine Islands
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: 5 officers, 54 enlisted 4KIA 1 POW
Chief Electrician's O'Connell was KIA in an air attack while in Harbor at Cavite.
In the spring of 1940 SEALION sailed, with her division for the Philippine Islands, arriving at Cavite in the fall to commence operations as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. Into October 1941, she ranged from Luzon into the Sulu Archipelago, then, with another submarine of her division, now SubDiv 202, she prepared for a regular overhaul at the Cavite Navy Yard. By 8 December, her yard period had begun; and, two days later, she took two direct hits in the Japanese air raid which demolished the navy yard.
The first bomb struck the after end of her conning tower and exploded outside the hull, over the control room. The second smashed through a main ballast tank and the pressure hull to explode in the after engine room, killing the four men then working there. In addition, one crewman died while a POW.
Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea lion, any of several large, eared seals native to the Pacific. Her keel was laid down on 20 June 1938 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 25 May 1939 sponsored by Mrs. Claude C. Bloch, and commissioned on 27 November 1939, Lieutenant J. K. Morrison Jr. in command.
USS Sealion Crew KIA and Died as POW
Howard Firth POW
Howard Firth POW
Sterling C. Foster KIA
Melvin D. O'Connell KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Ernest E. Ogilvie KIA
Vallentyne L. Paul KIA
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