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Casualty Info
Home Town Clarendon, TX
Last Address Bremerton, WA
Casualty Date Jul 11, 1943
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Lost At Sea-Unrecovered
Location Japan
Conflict World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Northern Solomon Islands Campaign (1943-44)/Sinking of the USS Runner (SS-275)
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
On 27 May 1943, under command of Lieutenant Commander Joseph H. Bourland, she departed Midway for the Kuril Islands chain and waters off northern Japan. No report was heard from her. Captured Japanese records indicated that she sank the cargo ship Seinan Maru on 11 June in Tsugaru Strait off Hokkaidō, and the passenger-cargo ship Shinryu Maru on 26 June off the Kuril Islands. Runner was declared overdue and presumed lost in July 1943 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 October 1943.
Rank/Rate Lieutenant Commander (Commanding Officer) Service Number 0-072277 Birth Date January 31, 1911 From Clarendon, Texas Decorations Silver Star, Purple Heart Submarine USS Runner (SS-275) Loss Date July 11, 1943 Location North of Hokkaido, Japan Circumstances Probably sunk by a mine
