Rank/Rate: Seaman, Second Class

Service Number: 641 23 56

Birth Date: July 25, 1921

From: Maryville, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS Pickerel (SS-177)

Loss Date: April 3, 1943

Location: Off Honshu, Japan

Circumstances: Probably sunk by depth charge attack

Remarks: Photo courtesy of Nathan B. Weinbaum, Director of Veterans Affairs/Veterans Service Officer, Blount County. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Pickerel (SS-177)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Pickerel (SS-177)

Find a Grave Memorial: S2 Elmer Howard Russell (Honolulu Memorial). Elmer Russell has a cenotaph in the family plot of Chilhowee View Cemetery at Maryville, Tennessee.