Father: Edward B. Brown of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
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USNR
Service No:6364679
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the service from New Jersey
Built in 1942, the SS Meriwether Lewis was a Liberty Ship. She was fitted with one 4inch, one 3inch and eight 20mm guns, and carried an assigned crew of 32 U.S. Navy Armed Guards, which included Seaman First Class JAMES EDWARD BROWN, to man them.
On March 2, 1943, Seaman BROWN was on board as the freighter, enroute from New York to the UK to Russia with a cargo of ammunition and tires, was straggling behind Convoy HX-227 in the North Atlantic. German submarine U-759 attacked the ship but had to quit due to engine problems. Before it quit, however, the sub led another sub, U-634, to the freighter. U-634 fired a spread of four torpedoes, and one hit in the forward part of the ship.
After three hours and more hits, and the ammunition blowing up in the forward part of the ship, the Meriwether Lewis sank bow first. A Coast Guard cutter searching the area for survivors found only a 30 mile trail of automobile tires.
There were 44 Merchant Mariners and 32 Naval personnel on board; none survived.
James Edward Brown's name is included in the Tablets of the Missing on the Memorial Wall, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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USNR
Service No:6364679
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the service from New Jersey
Built in 1942, the SS Meriwether Lewis was a Liberty Ship. She was fitted with one 4inch, one 3inch and eight 20mm guns, and carried an assigned crew of 32 U.S. Navy Armed Guards, which included Seaman First Class JAMES EDWARD BROWN, to man them.
On March 2, 1943, Seaman BROWN was on board as the freighter, enroute from New York to the UK to Russia with a cargo of ammunition and tires, was straggling behind Convoy HX-227 in the North Atlantic. German submarine U-759 attacked the ship but had to quit due to engine problems. Before it quit, however, the sub led another sub, U-634, to the freighter. U-634 fired a spread of four torpedoes, and one hit in the forward part of the ship.
After three hours and more hits, and the ammunition blowing up in the forward part of the ship, the Meriwether Lewis sank bow first. A Coast Guard cutter searching the area for survivors found only a 30 mile trail of automobile tires.
There were 44 Merchant Mariners and 32 Naval personnel on board; none survived.
James Edward Brown's name is included in the Tablets of the Missing on the Memorial Wall, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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Father: Edward B. Brown of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
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USNR
Service No:6364679
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the service from New Jersey
Built in 1942, the SS Meriwether Lewis was a Liberty Ship. She was fitted with one 4inch, one 3inch and eight 20mm guns, and carried an assigned crew of 32 U.S. Navy Armed Guards, which included Seaman First Class JAMES EDWARD BROWN, to man them.
On March 2, 1943, Seaman BROWN was on board as the freighter, enroute from New York to the UK to Russia with a cargo of ammunition and tires, was straggling behind Convoy HX-227 in the North Atlantic. German submarine U-759 attacked the ship but had to quit due to engine problems. Before it quit, however, the sub led another sub, U-634, to the freighter. U-634 fired a spread of four torpedoes, and one hit in the forward part of the ship.
After three hours and more hits, and the ammunition blowing up in the forward part of the ship, the Meriwether Lewis sank bow first. A Coast Guard cutter searching the area for survivors found only a 30 mile trail of automobile tires.
There were 44 Merchant Mariners and 32 Naval personnel on board; none survived.
James Edward Brown's name is included in the Tablets of the Missing on the Memorial Wall, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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USNR
Service No:6364679
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the service from New Jersey
Built in 1942, the SS Meriwether Lewis was a Liberty Ship. She was fitted with one 4inch, one 3inch and eight 20mm guns, and carried an assigned crew of 32 U.S. Navy Armed Guards, which included Seaman First Class JAMES EDWARD BROWN, to man them.
On March 2, 1943, Seaman BROWN was on board as the freighter, enroute from New York to the UK to Russia with a cargo of ammunition and tires, was straggling behind Convoy HX-227 in the North Atlantic. German submarine U-759 attacked the ship but had to quit due to engine problems. Before it quit, however, the sub led another sub, U-634, to the freighter. U-634 fired a spread of four torpedoes, and one hit in the forward part of the ship.
After three hours and more hits, and the ammunition blowing up in the forward part of the ship, the Meriwether Lewis sank bow first. A Coast Guard cutter searching the area for survivors found only a 30 mile trail of automobile tires.
There were 44 Merchant Mariners and 32 Naval personnel on board; none survived.
James Edward Brown's name is included in the Tablets of the Missing on the Memorial Wall, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial.
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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Inscription
BROWN JAMES E SEAMAN 1C USNR NEW JERSEY
Gravesite Details
BODY LOST AT SEA. Seaman Brown was on Meriwether Lewis when the ship was torpedeod and sunk during WWII.
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