Pinder, Richard Allen, CMoMM

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rate
Chief Motor Machinistmate/Oiler

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
1937 - 1945

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Personal Details

Home State

Florida

Year of Birth
1918

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Casualty Info

Home Town Maitland, FL	Last Address Maitland, FL

Casualty Date Aug 06, 1945
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered	Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean	Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Maitland Cemetery - Maitland, Florida	Wall/Plot Coordinates (memorial marker)

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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. Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Pinder was listed as Missing in Action and officially declared dead 23 August 1946.

Comments/Citation:

Service number: 2682633

Submarine war patrols: USS Bullhead (SS-332) - 1st through 3rd

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1942-1944, MO-0000, USS O-3 (SS-64)

From Month/Year January / 1942	To Month/Year July / 1944
Unit USS O-3 (SS-64) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer First Class	NEC MO-0000-Motor Machinist/Oiler
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS O-3 (SS-64) Details

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)

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USS O-3 (SS-64)

Bertram, Walter Eugene, PO2, (1942-1945)	MO	MO-0000	Petty Officer Third Class
Irvine, Frank Stubbs, ENS, (1924-1943)	MM	MM-0000	Chief Petty Officer
Lyon, Basil W Richard, CPO, (1939-1945)	YN	YN-0000	Petty Officer 1st Class
Payne, Chester, S1c, (1941-1944)	S1c	S1c-0000	Seaman First Class
Brown, Charles Newton, PO2, (1937-1945)	F1c	F1c-0000	Fireman First Class
Hutchinson, Charles Roy, PO3, (1940-1942)	S2c		Seaman Second Class