Cenotaph. Remains never recovered.
Another memorial for him is located in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
The ship he commanded, USS Joseph Hewes (AP 50), was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Fedala Roads off French Morocco during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.
He was the son of Robert L. Smith Sr. and Mary Loose Smith Howard.
On September 6, 1925, he married Helen Scott Mason at St. John's Episcopal Church at Hagerstown, Maryland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Walter Byron Stehl.
They were the parents of three children.
Another memorial for him is located in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
The ship he commanded, USS Joseph Hewes (AP 50), was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Fedala Roads off French Morocco during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.
He was the son of Robert L. Smith Sr. and Mary Loose Smith Howard.
On September 6, 1925, he married Helen Scott Mason at St. John's Episcopal Church at Hagerstown, Maryland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Walter Byron Stehl.
They were the parents of three children.
Cenotaph. Remains never recovered.
Another memorial for him is located in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
The ship he commanded, USS Joseph Hewes (AP 50), was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Fedala Roads off French Morocco during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.
He was the son of Robert L. Smith Sr. and Mary Loose Smith Howard.
On September 6, 1925, he married Helen Scott Mason at St. John's Episcopal Church at Hagerstown, Maryland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Walter Byron Stehl.
They were the parents of three children.
Another memorial for him is located in the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia.
The ship he commanded, USS Joseph Hewes (AP 50), was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Fedala Roads off French Morocco during the Naval Battle of Casablanca.
He was the son of Robert L. Smith Sr. and Mary Loose Smith Howard.
On September 6, 1925, he married Helen Scott Mason at St. John's Episcopal Church at Hagerstown, Maryland. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Walter Byron Stehl.
They were the parents of three children.
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In Memory Of
Capt Robert McLanahan Smith U.S.N.
Missing In Action At Sea, World War II
1896 - 1942
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