David Lexton Latham

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Rank/Rate:    Seaman, Second Class

Service Number:    295 54 81

Birth Date:    November 7, 1918

From:    Dyersburg, Tennessee

Decorations:    Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal

Ship:    USS Canopus (AS-9)

Date of Death:    October 24, 1944

Location:    Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru

Circumstances:    Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)

Remarks:    David was born in Friendship, Tennessee.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS CANOPUS (AS-9)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Canopus (AS-9)

Find a Grave Memorial: S2 David Lexton Latham (Manila American Cemetery and Memorial).  David Latham has a cenotaph at the family plot at Friendship Cemetery, Friendship, Tennessee.

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Perpetuating the memories of submariners who didn’t come home

Chairman: Mike Anderson (SK2(SS)USN) | President: Patrick Ryan (YNC(SS), LCDR USN)

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