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LCDR Edward Rowell Holt Jr. Veteran
Monument
1915 – 1945 Manila American Cemetery and Memorial
Photo added by Jeff Hall
- Birth
- Death
- 6 Aug 1945 (aged 30)
- Monument
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Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines Add to Map
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- Memorial ID
- 56747877 View Source
Rank/Rate Lieutenant Commander (Commanding Officer)
Service Number 0-082308
Birth Date July 6, 1915
From Laurens, South Carolina
Decorations Navy Cross, Purple Heart
Submarine USS Bullhead (SS-332)
Loss Date August 6, 1945
Location West end of Lombok Strait
Circumstances Sunk by air attack
USS Bullhead (Lt.Cdr. Edward Rowell Holt, Jr.) was sunk on her 3rd war patrol by Japanese aircraft off the north-east coast of Bali in position 08º20'S, 115º42'E. All 84 hands lost. The Japanese Army aircraft, belonging to the 73rd Chutai, based on Bali, made an attack at 0803 hrs, dropping 2 x 60 kg bombs which the pilot claimed to have hit, with oil and bubbles surfacing in the aftermath.
Thank you to John Dowdy for the following:
Significant Duty Stations
ENTERED NAVAL ACADEMY 1935
USS SEALION SS-315 - 1 PATROL
USS BAYA SS-318 - 2 PATROLS
USS GROUPER SS-214 - 7 PATROLS
CO,USS BULLHEAD SS-332 SUNK BY JAPANESE ARMY AIRCRAFT, WEST END OF LOMBOK STRAIT
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Hometown: Laurens, South Carolina
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332
Service # 0-082308
Awards: Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Presidential unit Citation with 2 Stars, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal W/Star, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Mission: War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
Service Number 0-082308
Birth Date July 6, 1915
From Laurens, South Carolina
Decorations Navy Cross, Purple Heart
Submarine USS Bullhead (SS-332)
Loss Date August 6, 1945
Location West end of Lombok Strait
Circumstances Sunk by air attack
USS Bullhead (Lt.Cdr. Edward Rowell Holt, Jr.) was sunk on her 3rd war patrol by Japanese aircraft off the north-east coast of Bali in position 08º20'S, 115º42'E. All 84 hands lost. The Japanese Army aircraft, belonging to the 73rd Chutai, based on Bali, made an attack at 0803 hrs, dropping 2 x 60 kg bombs which the pilot claimed to have hit, with oil and bubbles surfacing in the aftermath.
Thank you to John Dowdy for the following:
Significant Duty Stations
ENTERED NAVAL ACADEMY 1935
USS SEALION SS-315 - 1 PATROL
USS BAYA SS-318 - 2 PATROLS
USS GROUPER SS-214 - 7 PATROLS
CO,USS BULLHEAD SS-332 SUNK BY JAPANESE ARMY AIRCRAFT, WEST END OF LOMBOK STRAIT
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Hometown: Laurens, South Carolina
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332
Service # 0-082308
Awards: Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Presidential unit Citation with 2 Stars, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal W/Star, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Mission: War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
Rank/Rate Lieutenant Commander (Commanding Officer)
Service Number 0-082308
Birth Date July 6, 1915
From Laurens, South Carolina
Decorations Navy Cross, Purple Heart
Submarine USS Bullhead (SS-332)
Loss Date August 6, 1945
Location West end of Lombok Strait
Circumstances Sunk by air attack
USS Bullhead (Lt.Cdr. Edward Rowell Holt, Jr.) was sunk on her 3rd war patrol by Japanese aircraft off the north-east coast of Bali in position 08º20'S, 115º42'E. All 84 hands lost. The Japanese Army aircraft, belonging to the 73rd Chutai, based on Bali, made an attack at 0803 hrs, dropping 2 x 60 kg bombs which the pilot claimed to have hit, with oil and bubbles surfacing in the aftermath.
Thank you to John Dowdy for the following:
Significant Duty Stations
ENTERED NAVAL ACADEMY 1935
USS SEALION SS-315 - 1 PATROL
USS BAYA SS-318 - 2 PATROLS
USS GROUPER SS-214 - 7 PATROLS
CO,USS BULLHEAD SS-332 SUNK BY JAPANESE ARMY AIRCRAFT, WEST END OF LOMBOK STRAIT
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Hometown: Laurens, South Carolina
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332
Service # 0-082308
Awards: Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Presidential unit Citation with 2 Stars, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal W/Star, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Mission: War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
Service Number 0-082308
Birth Date July 6, 1915
From Laurens, South Carolina
Decorations Navy Cross, Purple Heart
Submarine USS Bullhead (SS-332)
Loss Date August 6, 1945
Location West end of Lombok Strait
Circumstances Sunk by air attack
USS Bullhead (Lt.Cdr. Edward Rowell Holt, Jr.) was sunk on her 3rd war patrol by Japanese aircraft off the north-east coast of Bali in position 08º20'S, 115º42'E. All 84 hands lost. The Japanese Army aircraft, belonging to the 73rd Chutai, based on Bali, made an attack at 0803 hrs, dropping 2 x 60 kg bombs which the pilot claimed to have hit, with oil and bubbles surfacing in the aftermath.
Thank you to John Dowdy for the following:
Significant Duty Stations
ENTERED NAVAL ACADEMY 1935
USS SEALION SS-315 - 1 PATROL
USS BAYA SS-318 - 2 PATROLS
USS GROUPER SS-214 - 7 PATROLS
CO,USS BULLHEAD SS-332 SUNK BY JAPANESE ARMY AIRCRAFT, WEST END OF LOMBOK STRAIT
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Captain: Lt. Commander Edward Rowell Holt Jr. MIA/KIA
Hometown: Laurens, South Carolina
Ship: USS Bullhead SS-332
Service # 0-082308
Awards: Navy Cross, Purple Heart, Presidential unit Citation with 2 Stars, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal W/Star, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Mission: War Patrol
Mission Date: 6-Aug-45
Location: West end of Lombok Strait
Cause: Sunk by air attack
Crew: of 84 MIA/KIA
The sub SS-332 and crew were lost August 6 1945, the crew declared officially KIA on August 23 1946. She was the last U.S. submarine lost during World War II.
USS Bullhead, a 1526-ton Balao class submarine, was built at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned in December 1944, she went to the Pacific shortly thereafter and left Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in March 1945. It took her into the South China Sea, where she twice used her deck gun to shell an enemy-held island, rescued three U.S. Army bomber aircrewmen and had the unenviable experience of being attacked by another U.S. bomber, whose bombs fortunately missed their target. During this patrol Bullhead also carried Martin Sheridan, the only Second World War occasion when a War Correspondent accompanied a U.S. submarine on a combat mission.
Operating out of Freemantle, Australia, after April 1945, Bullhead's second war patrol, in the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, produced attacks on several small Japanese vessels. Beginning her third patrol at the end of July, she headed for the Java Sea and, on 6 August, reported her arrival on station. She was not heard from again and was presumed sunk, with her entire complement of 84 officers and men. It is possible that Bullhead was the victim of a Japanese air attack off Bali on 6 August 1945.
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- Originally Created by: War Graves
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56747877/edward_rowell-holt: accessed ), memorial page for LCDR Edward Rowell Holt Jr. (6 Jul 1915–6 Aug 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56747877, citing Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines; Maintained by Jeff Hall (contributor 47296194).
