Rank/Rate: Electrician’s Mate, Second Class

Service Number: 296 00 91

Birth Date: November 7, 1923

From: Memphis, 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: Photo courtesy of Robert Cruthirds via Paul W. Wittmer.

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 Wesley Willard Worthington, Jr (Honolulu Memorial)