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Kent Weekly (SS/DSV) (DBF), EMCS
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Abele, Mannert Lincoln (Jim), LCDR.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Quincy, MA
Last Address USS Grunion in the north Pacific.
Remembered at the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Hawaii
Casualty Date Jul 30, 1942
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Buried at Sea - N/A, Pacific Ocean
Wall/Plot Coordinates Lost at sea with the USS Grunion in the Pacific.
Other Memories The following summer, while his submarine was out on routine operations on Long Island Sound, Jim was badly burned on his sub while checking out the battery mounts with a metal flashlight. The submarine immediately returned to port stopping only to take on a pharmacist?s mate on the way back. When in port he was taken out of the sub on a stretcher through the only way out which was straight up a ladder through a tubular hatch about 36 inches in diameter. He convalesced at the Naval Hospital in New London for a month or so and then continued his recovery at home. He was home when the hurricane of ?38 struck that area. By October he was finally feeling strong enough to resume work but he retained highly visible burn scars on his hands and body for the remainder of his life.
