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SC2c Marvin Herman Lemke

27 May 1923 – 28 May 1945

Birth	27 May 1923
Death	28 May 1945
Added by	Pat Ellingson on 11 Aug 2010
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55342077

Bio

Marvin was serving on the USS Drexler off the northern coast of Okinawa when a kamikaze bomber sunk his ship. "The two destroyers and Combat Air Patrol (CAP) planes shot down four of the six Japanese planes. However, two kamikaze planes hit the destroyer Drexler, causing the ship to sink in less than one minute after the second plane crashed. Nearby landing craft support vessels picked up 199 survivors, but 158 of Drexler's officers and crew died in the attack."

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Parents

• Alfred John Lemke 1898–1969
• Florence Katherine Kably Lemke 1902–1959

Siblings

• Victor August Lemke 1921–1978
• Donald Alfred Lemke 1929–1986
• Eugene Robert Lemke 1931–1965
• LaDon A Lemke 1934–2018

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