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Casualty Info
Home Town Coeur d'Alene, ID
Last Address Coeur d'Alene, ID
Casualty Date Jun 18, 1945
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Sea of Japan
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
Wall/Plot Coordinates Court 2 (cenotaph)
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
USS Bonefish (SS-223) was on a war patrol in the Sea of Japan with two other submarines. Her last communication was during a rendezvous on June 18th. Captured Japanese records indicate that a Japanese vessel was sunk on June 19th and that during an intense counterattack a submarine was sunk with all hands. It is presumed that this was the Bonefish. Motor Machinists Mate Second Class Williams was officially declared dead 15 July 1946.
Description On 11 May she rendezvoused with her sister ship USS Narwhal off the northern side of Attu, and the two ships, debarked 109 Army Scouts in rubber boats at Scarlet Beach for the preliminary landings in the recapture of the island, a venture successfull
