Ernest Franklin Bennett was killed in action aboard USS Indianapolis CA-35. After the ship delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian Island, it was hit by torpedoes from Japanese submarine I-58, 30 July 1945, in transit to return to the fleet.
Memorialized at the Manila American Cemetery, the Philippines
Wife: Mrs. Sarah Whitson Bennett, 1906 East 25th Street, Chattanooga.
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