Rank/Rate: Motor Machinist’s Mate, First Class

Service Number: 295 50 32

Birth Date: September 26, 1917

From: Elizabethton, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS Wahoo (SS-238)

Loss Date: October 11, 1943

Location: In La Perouse Strait, Northern Japan

Circumstances: Sunk by a combination of air attack and depth charging

Remarks: Olin was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina. Photo courtesy of his widow via Charles Lipford. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Wahoo (SS-238)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Wahoo (SS-238)

Find a Grave Memorial: MoMM1 Olin Jacobs (Honolulu Memorial). Olin Jacobs has a cenotaph at the family plot of Nave Cemetery, in Carter County Tennessee.