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Casualty Info
Home Town Nashville, TN
Last Address 205 W Main St Jonesboro, TN
Casualty Date Mar 05, 1943
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Maple Lawn Cemetery - Jonesborough, Tennessee
Wall/Plot Coordinates (memorial marker)
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
The USS Grampus (SS-207) left on her sixth war patrol 11 February 1943, operating off of New Britain. There are conflicting accounts of when she was sunk but she was declared missing 3 March 1943, and struck from the Navy list on 21 June 1943. Motor Machinist's Mate Second Class Corum was listed as Missing in Action and later declared dead 19 January 1946.
Comments/Citation:
Service number: 2957872
Submarine war patrols:
USS Tambor (SS-198) - 1st
USS Grampus (SS-207) - 2nd through 6th
The information comtained in this profile was compiled from various internet sources.
Description The plan of the Pacific subseries was determined by the geography, strategy, and the military organization of a theater largely oceanic. Two independent, coordinate commands, one in the Southwest Pacific under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and the other in the Central, South, and North Pacific (Pacific Ocean Areas) under Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, were created early in the war. Except in the South and Southwest Pacific, each conducted its own operations with its own ground, air, and naval forces in widely separated areas. These operations required at first only a relatively small number of troops whose efforts often yielded strategic gains which cannot be measured by the size of the forces involved. Indeed, the nature of the objectivesùsmall islands, coral atolls, and jungle-bound harbors and airstrips, made the employment of large ground forces impossible and highlighted the importance of air and naval operations. Thus, until 1945, the war in the Pacific progressed by a double series of amphibious operations each of which fitted into a strategic pattern developed in Washington.
