Rank/Rate: Machinist’s Mate, Second Class

Service Number: 295 21 15

Birth Date: June 1, 1910

From: Copperhill, Tennessee

Decorations: None

Submarine: USS Squalus (SS-192)

Loss Date: May 23, 1939

Location: Off the New England Coast, near Isle of Shoals

Circumstances: Accidentally sank when engine rooms flooded

Remarks: Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS SQUALUS (SS-192)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Squalus SS-192

Find a Grave Memorial: Elvin Leon Deal, Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery, McCaysville, Georgia.