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Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
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Last Primary NEC
MM-0000-Machinist's Mate
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Last Rating/NEC Group
Machinists Mate
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Primary Unit
1942-1943, USS Helena (CL-50)
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Service Years
1941 - 1943
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Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Order of the Golden Dragon
Neptune Subpoena
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Personal Details
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Home State
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Year of Birth Not Specified |
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Nicole Summers, MMFN
to remember
Berry, Vernon, PO2.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town ST. Louis |
Last Address Not Specified |
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Casualty Date Jul 06, 1943 |
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Cause Hostile, Died while Missing |
Reason Other Explosive Device |
Location Solomon Islands |
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)/Battle of Kula Gulf |
Location of Interment Not Specified |
Wall/Plot Coordinates Not Specified |
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From Month/Year
January / 1942 |
To Month/Year
December / 1942
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Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
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Memories After preliminary overhaul at Pearl Harbor, Helena steamed to Mare Island Navy Yard for permanent repairs. In 1942, she sailed to enter action, escorting a detachment of Seabees and an aircraft carrier rushing planes to the South Pacific. She made two quick dashes from Espiritu Santo to Guadalcanal, where the long and bloody battle for the island was then beginning, and having completed these missions, joined the task force formed around Wasp. This task force steamed in distant support of six transports carrying Marine reinforcements to Guadalcanal. On 15 September 1942, in mid-afternoon Wasp was suddenly hit by three Japanese torpedoes. Almost at once, she became an inferno. Helena, her guns blazing, stood by to rescue nearly 400 of Wasp's officers and men, whom she took to Espiritu Santo.
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