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Contact Info
Last Address Randolph, NH
Date of Passing Sep 09, 2001
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Neutrality Operations in the North Atlantic/USS Ruben James (DD-245)
From Month/Year
October / 1941
To Month/Year
October / 1941
Description Destroyer REUBEN JAMES (DD-245) is torpedoed and sinks off western Iceland with loss of about 100 lives; this is the first United States naval vessel to be lost by enemy action in World War II.