My mother’s first cousin, Powell, was on the Squalus. He was the radio man. I don’t remember but my sisters remember listening to the radio all day long when the rescue was going on.
He grew up in the same house with Mother and later died in a sub in WWII.
We have the articles when he came home after the rescue.
I see him on the list of the rescued from yesterday's post: Powell, Charles A., radioman, second class, of Leesville, La.
He grew up in the same house with Mother and later died in a sub in WWII.
He gave his life in a vital cause. Admiral Nimitz considered the submarine campaign the first cause of the defeat of Japan.