LAMBERT, GEORGE LEE, Machinist's Mate Third Class (no. 6260863), USS Porcupine (IX-126), US Navy Reserve, †30/12/1944
Parents, Charles E. and Maude Elizabeth Wildy Lambert
Wife, Mrs. Valarie Elouise Hancher Lambert, 3845 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. (m. 1940)
MIA, later declared dead December 31, 1945
USS Porcupine (IX-126), filled with aviation fuel, was struck by a kamikaze plane about 1549, 30 December 1944, off White Beach, Mangarin Bay, Leyte, PI. Porcupine was attacked by five Japanese Vals. The successful attacker dropped a bomb on Porcupine, then crashed into the ship, killing seven of her crew and wounding eight others. Attempts to stop the resulting fire from reaching the aviation fuel failed. Porcupine burned to the water line.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46126.htm
Parents, Charles E. and Maude Elizabeth Wildy Lambert
Wife, Mrs. Valarie Elouise Hancher Lambert, 3845 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. (m. 1940)
MIA, later declared dead December 31, 1945
USS Porcupine (IX-126), filled with aviation fuel, was struck by a kamikaze plane about 1549, 30 December 1944, off White Beach, Mangarin Bay, Leyte, PI. Porcupine was attacked by five Japanese Vals. The successful attacker dropped a bomb on Porcupine, then crashed into the ship, killing seven of her crew and wounding eight others. Attempts to stop the resulting fire from reaching the aviation fuel failed. Porcupine burned to the water line.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46126.htm
LAMBERT, GEORGE LEE, Machinist's Mate Third Class (no. 6260863), USS Porcupine (IX-126), US Navy Reserve, †30/12/1944
Parents, Charles E. and Maude Elizabeth Wildy Lambert
Wife, Mrs. Valarie Elouise Hancher Lambert, 3845 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. (m. 1940)
MIA, later declared dead December 31, 1945
USS Porcupine (IX-126), filled with aviation fuel, was struck by a kamikaze plane about 1549, 30 December 1944, off White Beach, Mangarin Bay, Leyte, PI. Porcupine was attacked by five Japanese Vals. The successful attacker dropped a bomb on Porcupine, then crashed into the ship, killing seven of her crew and wounding eight others. Attempts to stop the resulting fire from reaching the aviation fuel failed. Porcupine burned to the water line.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46126.htm
Parents, Charles E. and Maude Elizabeth Wildy Lambert
Wife, Mrs. Valarie Elouise Hancher Lambert, 3845 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. (m. 1940)
MIA, later declared dead December 31, 1945
USS Porcupine (IX-126), filled with aviation fuel, was struck by a kamikaze plane about 1549, 30 December 1944, off White Beach, Mangarin Bay, Leyte, PI. Porcupine was attacked by five Japanese Vals. The successful attacker dropped a bomb on Porcupine, then crashed into the ship, killing seven of her crew and wounding eight others. Attempts to stop the resulting fire from reaching the aviation fuel failed. Porcupine burned to the water line.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46126.htm
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