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Robert Franklin Gibbs

Robert Franklin Gibbs

 

Rank/Rate Torpedoman's Mate, First Class
Service Number 261 31 88 
Birth Date January 5, 1904
From Lexington, South Carolina
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Submarine USS Squalus (SS-192)
Loss Date May 23, 1939
Location Off New England Coast, near Isle of Shoals
Circumstances Accidentally sank when engine rooms flooded
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Photo and information courtesy of the Palmetto Subvets USSVI, Lexington South Carolina. Additional information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

Robert Franklin Gibbs marker

Photo vourtesy of Jensen/Fleury/Sharpe

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