Category: Manning Kimmel

• July 26,1944, Balabac Strait – Philippines

  26 July 1944 Balabac Strait – Philippines On her third patrol, the US Navy submarine USS Robalo (SS-273) strikes a mine and rapidly sinks. Four of her crew managed to swim to Palawan Island. One of them is the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Manning Kimmel, the son of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific…

  July 26, 2024

  1940s, History Daily, Japanese Army, Japanese Internment Camp, Manning Kimmel, Palawan Island, Submarine, USS Rabalo, World War II

  1940s, History Daily, Japanese Army, Japanese Internment Camp, Manning Kimmel, Palawan Island, Submarine, USS Rabalo, World War II