World War II
George Ray Runnels
USNR -Submariner - USS S-28 (SS_133)

He died off Oahu during a training exercise.
The whole crew of 49 perished.
YouTube about the USS S-28 Memorial Service

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 15 Jul 1944 6 Mar 1922 - 4 Jul 1944 (The wreck was located and filmed in 2017)	The Courier-Gazette 27 Jul 1944	Fort Worth Star-Telegram 23 Sep 1944 Fort Worth Star -Telegram 27 Jul 1944
	He is memorialized in the Honolulu Memorial, Courts of the Missing,  Honolulu, Hawaii.      He also has a memorial stone in the Van Alstyne Cemetery.

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