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Lee Mainert Faber

Lee Mainert Faber

 

Rank/Rate Seaman, First Class
Service Number 620 30 69
Birth Date May 20, 1923
From Latimer, Iowa
Decorations Purple Heart
Submarine USS Scorpion (SS-278)
Loss Date February 1, 1944
Location East China Sea or Yellow Sea
Circumstances Lost at sea, cause unknown
Remarks Lee was born on a farm near Latimer, Franklin County, Iowa. The Latimer Post Office did not have rural route delivery, thus the postal address of the farm was rural route, Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa.

Photo and remarks courtesy of Gordon Faber, nephew. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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