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OF GALLANT AMERICAN OFFICER SUBMARINE ORDERED TO SUBMERGE. AS HE LAY MORTALLY WOUNDED. (British Official Wireless., (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, May 7. An American Navy Department communique states:—“ln the Pacific and Far East, one American submarine reported the following result during a war patrol early this year, under the late Commander H. W. Gilmore: —One medium-sized cargo ship sunk, one gunboat damaged, probably sunk; one medium-sized cargo ship damaged. Commander Gilmore gave his life in the action against the gunboat. As he lay on the bridge, mortally wounded by enemy machine-gun fire, he ordered his submarine to submerge to save it from threatened destruction.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1943, Page 3
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