Dougherty, Charles William, SC1c

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rate
Ships Cook/Baker 1st Class

Last Primary NEC
SC-0000-Ships Cook/Ships Baker

Last Rating/NEC Group
Ships Cook/Ships Baker

Primary Unit
1945-1945, SC-0000, USS Bullhead (SS-332)

Service Years
1942 - 1945

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Personal Details

Home State

New Jersey

Year of Birth
1920

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Casualty Info

Home Town Plainfield, NJ	Last Address Raritan, NJ

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	Wall/Plot Coordinates (cenotaph)

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Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

USS Bullhead (SS-332) began her third and final patrol on 31 July 1945. The last contact with the boat was on 2 August. Post war Japanese records show that a plane depth charged and presumably sunk an American Submarine on 6 August, the same day the Atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Ship's Cook First Class Dougherty was listed as Missing in Action and officially declared dead 23 August 1946.

Comments/Citation:

Service number: 6473716

Submarine war patrols:
USS Barb (SS-220) - 6th through 9th
USS Bullhead (SS-332) - 1st through 3rd

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1943-1944, SC-0000, USS Barb (SS-220)

From Month/Year August / 1943	To Month/Year October / 1944
Unit USS Barb (SS-220) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Second Class	NEC SC-0000-Ships Cook/Ships Baker
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS Barb (SS-220) Details

Hull number SS-220

Career (United States)
Name:	USS Barb (SS-220)
Builder:	General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down:	7 June 1941
Launched:	2 April 1942
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Charles A. Dunn
Commissioned:	8 July 1942
Decommissioned:	12 February 1947
Recommissioned:	3 December 1951
Decommissioned:	5 February 1954
Recommissioned:	3 August 1954
Decommissioned:	13 December 1954
Struck:	15 October 1972
Fate:	Transferred to Italy on 13 December 1954
Career (Italy)
Name:	Enrico Tazzoli (S-511)
Acquired:	13 December 1954
Fate:	Sold for scrap in 1972
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced, 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × General Motors Model 16-248 V16 diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	21 kn (39 km/h) surface^], 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced @ 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours @ 2 kn (3.7 km/h) submerged, 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	300 ft (91 m)
Complement:	6 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Type
Sub-Surface Vessel

Parent Unit
Submarines

Strength
Submarine

Created/Owned By

ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS)

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Last Updated: Dec 19, 2018

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USS Barb (SS-220)

Weaver, Everett Paul, LCDR, (1942-1946)	OFF	112X	Lieutenant
Irvine, Frank Stubbs, ENS, (1924-1943)	OFF	00X	Ensign
SAUNDERS, Paul Golden, CPO, (1936-1962)	GM	GM-0000	Chief Gunner's Mate
Buczek, Kadzmir Joseph, PO2, (1942-1945)	TM	TM-0000	Torpedoman 3rd Class
Hansley, John, MCPO, (1939-1959)	FT	FC-0000	Fire Controlman 3rd Class
Payne, Chester, S1c, (1941-1944)	S1c	S1c-0000	Seaman First Class
Stern, William, S1c, (1942-1944)	S1c	S1c-0000	Seaman First Class
Fluckey, Eugene Bennett, RADM, (1935-1972)	OFF		Commander