Hawkins, William Paul, BM2c

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rate
Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class

Last Primary NEC
BM-0000-Boatswain's Mate

Last Rating/NEC Group
Boatswain's Mate

Primary Unit
1944-1945, BM-0000, USS Bullhead (SS-332)

Service Years
1942 - 1945

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Personal Details

Home State

New York

Year of Birth
1921

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Casualty Info

Home Town New York, NY	Last Address New York, NY

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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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. Boatswain's Mate Second Class Hawkins was listed as Missing in Action and officially declared dead 23 August 1946.

Comments/Citation:

Service number: 2245938

Submarine war patrols:
USS Barracuda (SS-163) - 5th and 6th
USS Bullhead (SS-332) - 1st through 3rd

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1942-1944, BM-0000, USS Barracuda (SS-163)

From Month/Year April / 1942	To Month/Year October / 1944
Unit USS Barracuda (SS-163) Unit Page
Rate Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class	NEC BM-0000-Boatswain's Mate
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS Barracuda (SS-163) Details

Career
Builder:	Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down:	20 October 1921
Launched:	17 July 1924
Commissioned:	1 October 1924
Decommissioned:	14 May 1937
Commissioned:	5 September 1940
Decommissioned:	3 March 1945
Struck:	10 March 1945
Fate:	Sold for breaking up, 16 November 1945
General characteristics
Class and type:	V-1 (Barracuda)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	2,119 tons (2,153 t) surfaced 2,506 tons (2,546 t) submerged
Length:	341 ft 6 in (104.09 m)
Beam:	27 ft 6�?? in (9.4 m)
Draft:	15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)
Propulsion:	(as built) 2 × Busch-Sulzer direct-drive 6-cylinder 2-cycle diesel engines, 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) each 2 × BuEng 6-cylinder 4-cycle diesel engines, 1,000 hp (750 kW) each, driving electrical generators (re-engined) 2 x six-cylinder four-cycle Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg AG (MAN) diesels, 1000 hp (746 kW) each 2 × 60-cell Exide batteries 2 × Elliott electric motors, 1,200 hp (890 kW) each two shafts
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h) surfaced 9 knots (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) at 11 knots with fuel in main ballast tanks
Endurance:	10 hours at 5 knots (9 km/h)
Test depth:	200 ft (60 m)
Complement:	7 officers, 11 petty officers, 69 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft, twelve torpedoes) 1 × 5-inch (127 mm) / 51 caliber deck gun

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: Nov 28, 2018

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