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Casualty Info
Home Town Hill City, ID
Last Address 173 Jefferson Ave Boston, MA
Casualty Date Aug 06, 1945
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Manila American Cemetery and Memorial - Manila, Philippines
Built at Puget Sound Navy Yard and commissioned 1918; placed in Reserver, 1930; recommissioned 1941
USS O-2, a 521-ton O-1 class submarine built by the Puget Sound Navy Yard, was commissioned in October 1918. After transfer to the Atlantic, she spent nearly a dozen years operating along the East Coast and in the vicinity of the Panama Canal Zone. O-2 was placed out of commission in June 1931 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The National defense expansion of the early 1940s brought her back to active duty. Recommissioned in February 1941, she was assigned to training duty at New London, Connecticut, during most of World War II. In July 1945, with the war with Germany won, USS O-2 was decommissioned. She was sold in November of that year.
