Rank/Rate: Electrician’s Mate, Second Class

Service Number: 641 34 19

Birth Date: June 13, 1922

From: Mount Juliet, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

Loss Date: April 18, 1944

Location: Off Iwo Jima

Circumstances: Probably sunk by air attack

Remarks: Information courtesy of Judy T. Bean, cousin.  Photo courtesy of Mike Ostlund.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

Find a Grave Memorial: EM2 Howard Owen Garrett (Honolulu Memorial). Howard Garrett has a cenotaph at the family plot at Mount Juliet Memorial Gardens in Mount Juliet, Tennessee