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Daniel Emery Allen

Daniel Emery Allen

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Signalman, Third Class
Service Number 287 42 11
Birth Date February 3, 1923
From Salem, Indiana
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Grunion (SS-216)
Loss Date July 30, 1942
Location Near entrance to Kiska Harbor, Alaska
Circumstances Sunk by armed Japanese freighter Kano Maru
Remarks Daniel was born in Canton, Indiana.

"Dan graduated Red Bird High School, Beverly, Kentucky, in 1940. Red Bird was a boarding school in the eastern hills of Kentucky.  He gave the salutatory address.  Honorable Keen Johnson, Governor of Kentucky, spoke at graduation."

Photo, information, and remarks courtesy of Pat Allen Pare, sister.

 

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