On Eternal Patrol - Seymour Golding Smith, Jr.

On Eternal Patrol - Lost Submariners of World War II

Seymour Golding Smith, Jr.

Seymour Golding Smith, Jr. as a child
Seymour at about 10 years old, and as a young adult.

Rank/Rate Quartermaster, Third Class

Service Number 381 77 78

Birth Date December 19, 1925

From Glendale, California

Decorations Purple Heart

Submarine USS Tang (SS-306)

Loss Date October 25, 1944

Location Formosa Strait near Turnabout Island

Circumstances Sunk by circular run of own torpedo

Remarks

Photos courtesy of William Lockwood Jr., grandnephew.

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