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Service Details
Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
Last Primary NEC
MO-0000-Motor Machinist/Oiler
Last Rating/NEC Group
Motor Machinistmate/Oiler
Primary Unit
1944-1945, MO-0000, USS Bullhead (SS-332)
Service Years
1942 - 1945
Last Photo
Personal Details
Home State
Kansas
Year of Birth 1924
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to remember
Bertram, Walter Eugene, MoMM2c.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Great Bend, KS
Last Address Eldorado, KS
Casualty Date Aug 06, 1945
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Sunset Lawn Cemetery - El Dorado, Kansas
Wall/Plot Coordinates (memorial marker)
From Month/Year February / 1944
To Month/Year October / 1944
Unit USS O-3 (SS-64) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Third Class
NEC MO-0000-Motor Machinist/Oiler
Base, Station or City Not SpecifiedState/Country Not Specified
Patch
Career
Name:
USS O-3
Ordered:
3 March 1916
Builder:
Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
Puget Sound Navy Yard , Bremerton, Washington
Laid down:
2 December 1916
Launched:
27 September 1917
Commissioned:
13 June 1918
Decommissioned:
6 June 1931
Recommissioned:
3 February 1941
Decommissioned:
11 September 1945
Struck:
11 October 1945
Fate:
Sold for scrap, 4 September 1946
General characteristics
Type:
O class submarine
Displacement:
520.6 long tons (529 t ) surfaced
629 long tons (639 t) submerged
Length:
172 ft 4 in (52.53 m)
Beam:
18 ft (5.5 m)
Draft:
14 ft 5 in (4.39 m)
Propulsion:
Diesel-electric
2 × 440 hp (328 kW) diesel engines
2 × 370 hp (276 kW) electric motors
2 shafts
Speed:
14 knots (26 km/h ; 16 mph ) surfaced
10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged
Complement:
2 officers, 27 men
Armament:
• 4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes , 8 torpedoes
• 1 × 3"/50 caliber deck gun
USS O-3 (SS-64) , a O -class submarine of the United States Navy . Her keel was laid down on 2 December 1916 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts . She was launched on 27 September 1917, and commissioned on 13 June 1918 with Lieutenant G. L. Dickson in command.
Type
Sub-Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Submarines
Strength
Submarine
Created/Owned By
ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS) 276
Last Updated: Oct 4, 2018