US Navy WORLD WAR II
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, George W. Snyder Jr POW/DIS
Hometown: Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Ship: USS Grenadier (SS-210)
Service # 2243639
Awards: Purple Heart, Prisoner of war Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Captain: LCDR John Allison Fitzgerald
Mission: War patrol
Mission Date: 22-Apr-43 SCUTTLED
Location: Sunk near Penang, crew taken prisoner
Cause: enemy aircraft
Struck:
Complement: Sixty eight enlisted men and eight officers.
USS Grenadier was forced to scuttle herself after being mortally wounded in an attack by enemy aircraft April 22nd 1943. All crew members were picked up by a Japanese merchantman, and sent to Prisoner of War camps in Penang, Malay States, where they were questioned, beaten, and starved before being sent to other prison camps. They were then separated and transferred from camp to camp along the Malay Peninsula and finally to Japan. Throughout the war they suffered brutal, inhuman treatment, and their refusal to reveal military information both frustrated and angered their captors. First word that any had survived Grenadier reached Australia on 27 November 1943. Despite the brutal and sadistic treatment, all but four of Grenadier's crew survived their two years in Japanese hands. Machinist's Mate Snyder Died of chronic enteritis and acute pneumonia as a POW.
The following crew members of USS Grenadier (SS-210) died as Prisoners of War.
Machinist's Mate George W. Snyder Jr
Machinist's Mate Charles F. Linder
Steward's Mate Justiniano Garcia Guico
Machinist's Mate Charles Doyle
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, George W. Snyder Jr POW/DIS
Hometown: Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Ship: USS Grenadier (SS-210)
Service # 2243639
Awards: Purple Heart, Prisoner of war Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Captain: LCDR John Allison Fitzgerald
Mission: War patrol
Mission Date: 22-Apr-43 SCUTTLED
Location: Sunk near Penang, crew taken prisoner
Cause: enemy aircraft
Struck:
Complement: Sixty eight enlisted men and eight officers.
USS Grenadier was forced to scuttle herself after being mortally wounded in an attack by enemy aircraft April 22nd 1943. All crew members were picked up by a Japanese merchantman, and sent to Prisoner of War camps in Penang, Malay States, where they were questioned, beaten, and starved before being sent to other prison camps. They were then separated and transferred from camp to camp along the Malay Peninsula and finally to Japan. Throughout the war they suffered brutal, inhuman treatment, and their refusal to reveal military information both frustrated and angered their captors. First word that any had survived Grenadier reached Australia on 27 November 1943. Despite the brutal and sadistic treatment, all but four of Grenadier's crew survived their two years in Japanese hands. Machinist's Mate Snyder Died of chronic enteritis and acute pneumonia as a POW.
The following crew members of USS Grenadier (SS-210) died as Prisoners of War.
Machinist's Mate George W. Snyder Jr
Machinist's Mate Charles F. Linder
Steward's Mate Justiniano Garcia Guico
Machinist's Mate Charles Doyle
US Navy WORLD WAR II
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, George W. Snyder Jr POW/DIS
Hometown: Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Ship: USS Grenadier (SS-210)
Service # 2243639
Awards: Purple Heart, Prisoner of war Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Captain: LCDR John Allison Fitzgerald
Mission: War patrol
Mission Date: 22-Apr-43 SCUTTLED
Location: Sunk near Penang, crew taken prisoner
Cause: enemy aircraft
Struck:
Complement: Sixty eight enlisted men and eight officers.
USS Grenadier was forced to scuttle herself after being mortally wounded in an attack by enemy aircraft April 22nd 1943. All crew members were picked up by a Japanese merchantman, and sent to Prisoner of War camps in Penang, Malay States, where they were questioned, beaten, and starved before being sent to other prison camps. They were then separated and transferred from camp to camp along the Malay Peninsula and finally to Japan. Throughout the war they suffered brutal, inhuman treatment, and their refusal to reveal military information both frustrated and angered their captors. First word that any had survived Grenadier reached Australia on 27 November 1943. Despite the brutal and sadistic treatment, all but four of Grenadier's crew survived their two years in Japanese hands. Machinist's Mate Snyder Died of chronic enteritis and acute pneumonia as a POW.
The following crew members of USS Grenadier (SS-210) died as Prisoners of War.
Machinist's Mate George W. Snyder Jr
Machinist's Mate Charles F. Linder
Steward's Mate Justiniano Garcia Guico
Machinist's Mate Charles Doyle
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, George W. Snyder Jr POW/DIS
Hometown: Phillipsburg, New Jersey
Ship: USS Grenadier (SS-210)
Service # 2243639
Awards: Purple Heart, Prisoner of war Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal
Captain: LCDR John Allison Fitzgerald
Mission: War patrol
Mission Date: 22-Apr-43 SCUTTLED
Location: Sunk near Penang, crew taken prisoner
Cause: enemy aircraft
Struck:
Complement: Sixty eight enlisted men and eight officers.
USS Grenadier was forced to scuttle herself after being mortally wounded in an attack by enemy aircraft April 22nd 1943. All crew members were picked up by a Japanese merchantman, and sent to Prisoner of War camps in Penang, Malay States, where they were questioned, beaten, and starved before being sent to other prison camps. They were then separated and transferred from camp to camp along the Malay Peninsula and finally to Japan. Throughout the war they suffered brutal, inhuman treatment, and their refusal to reveal military information both frustrated and angered their captors. First word that any had survived Grenadier reached Australia on 27 November 1943. Despite the brutal and sadistic treatment, all but four of Grenadier's crew survived their two years in Japanese hands. Machinist's Mate Snyder Died of chronic enteritis and acute pneumonia as a POW.
The following crew members of USS Grenadier (SS-210) died as Prisoners of War.
Machinist's Mate George W. Snyder Jr
Machinist's Mate Charles F. Linder
Steward's Mate Justiniano Garcia Guico
Machinist's Mate Charles Doyle
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