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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
The information contained in this profile was compiled from various internet sources.
Central Pacific Campaign (1941-43)/Battle of Wake Island
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
December / 1941
Description The Battle of Wake Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor and ended on 23 December 1941, with the surrender of the American forces to the Empire of Japan. It was fought on and around the atoll formed by Wake Island and its islets of Peale and Wilkes Islands by the air, land and naval forces of the Empire of Japan against those of the U.S., with Marines playing a prominent role on both sides.
The island was held by the Japanese for the duration of the Pacific War; the remaining Japanese garrison on the island surrendered to a detachment of United States Marines on 4 September 1945.
