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Robert Emmett Carey

Robert Emmett Carey

 Purple Heart

Rank/Rate Seaman, Second Class
Service Number 283 88 06
Birth Date June 22, 1924
From Leavittsburg, Ohio
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Grayback (SS-208)
Loss Date February 26, 1944
Location Near 25° 47'N x 128° 45'E, south of Okinawa
Circumstances Sunk by air attack
Remarks

Robert was born in Warren, Ohio.

Robert's nephew, SGT Bobby Clyde Snyder, was killed in action in Vietnam on December 10, 1968.

Photo courtesy of Larry Gavlak, nephew of Grayback shipmate Charles B. Gavlak.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer. Remarks coutesy of David W. Wilma, Bobby Snyder's friend.

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