Rank/Rate: Radioman, First Class

Service Number: 640 27 26

Birth Date: September 23, 1913

From: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Decorations: Purple Heart

Submarine: USS Corvina (SS-226)

Loss Date: November 16, 1943

Location: Just south of Truk

Circumstances: Probably sunk by Japanese submarine I-176

Remarks: Photo and information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Corvina (SS-226)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Corvina (SS-226)

Find a Grave Memorial: RM1 William Peet Hemphill, Jr (Honolulu Memorial)