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Bennie Cleveland

Bennie Cleveland
Bennie Cleveland (center)

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Steward, Third Class
Service Number 636 65 72
Birth Date June 3, 1922 Jones County, Georgia
From Macon, Georgia
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Growler (SS-215)
Loss Date November 8, 1944
Location South China Sea
Circumstances Probably sunk by depth charge attack
Remarks Bennie was born in Jones County, Georgia.

Photo courtesy of Glenn Knoblock, author of Black Submariners in the United States Navy, 1940-1975.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer. 

 

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