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CPhM Edward Brown Blackmon

31 Aug 1918 – 7 Nov 1944

Birth	31 Aug 1918
Death	7 Nov 1944
Cemetery	Honolulu Memorial Honolulu , Honolulu County , Hawaii , USA
Added by	Jaap Vermeer on 25 Feb 2026
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30320287

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Entered the service from Alabama.

Bio

Chief Pharmacist's Mate Blackmon's life was lost on November 7, 1944 along with 85 other crewmen due to the sinking of the submarine USS Albacore by a mine off northern Japan. He was awarded the Purple Heart. ------------------ Albacore left Pearl Harbor on 24 October 1944 (with Hugh Raynor Rimmer, Class of 1937,[11] in command), topped off her fuel tanks at Midway Island on 28 October, and was never heard from again. According to Japanese records captured after the war, a submarine (presumed to be Albacore) struck a naval mine very close to the shore off northeastern Hokkaidô on 7 November 1944. A Japanese patrol boat witnessed the explosion of a submerged submarine and saw a great deal of heavy oil, cork, bedding, and food supplies rise to the surface. On 21 December, Albacore was presumed lost. Her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1945. Thank you goes to Find A Grave contributor Rubbings for this information.

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Family

Parents

• Huey T Blackmon 1877–1963
• Annie Louise Dean Blackmon 1885–1967

Siblings

• Minnie Louise "Lois" Blackmon Presnall 1903–2005
• George Thomas Blackmon 1905–1960
• Lorena Lucile Blackmon Burkett 1909–2000
• Rosie Blackmon McDowell 1912–1974
• Arthurine Blackmon Harville 1914–1992
• Edward Brown Blackmon 1918–1944

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