Rank/Rate | Motor Machinist’s Mate, First Class |
Service Number | 295 50 32 |
Birth Date | September 26, 1917 |
From | Elizabethton, Tennessee |
Decorations | Purple Heart |
Submarine | USS Wahoo (SS-238) |
Loss Date | October 11, 1943 |
Location | In La Perouse Strait, Northern Japan |
Circumstances | Sunk by a combination of air attack and depth charging |
Remarks | Olin was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina. |
Photo courtesy of his widow via Charles Lipford. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.
He has a memorial stone in the Nave Cemetery. This cemetery is in the Siam Community of Carter County.