Dallas William Hunter (1923 - 1943)

Born 23 Feb 1923 in East Prospect, York County, Pennsylvania, USA

Ancestors

Died 11 Jul 1943 at age 20 in At Sea

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Biography

Dallas was born in 1923. He was the son of Gilbert Hunter and Frances Hetrick. He passed away in 1946. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Source will be added by Shaida Martz by 30 Jun 2021.

Having actually gone "Missing" sometime after June 26, 1943 the U.S.S. Runner is believed to have been lost on approximately the above date. The crew was not officially declared by the military as being dead until January 2, 1946. ~ Dallas served as a Seaman First Class, U.S.S. Runner (SS-275), U.S. Navy during World War II.

He resided in Fulton County, Pennsylvania prior to the war. He enlisted in the Navy on August 21, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Runner, while on a patrol off the Kuril Islands in northern Japan was declared Missing and was last heard from by U.S. Naval forces on May 27, 1943.

After the war Japanese captured records indicated that the Runner sank the cargo ship Seinan Maru on June 11, 1943 in Tsugaru Strait off Hokkaidō, Japan. On June 22, 1943 the Runner was attacked and apparently damaged by IJN naval forces. The Runner was also credited with sinking the passenger-cargo ship Shinryu Maru on June 26, 1943 off the Kuril Islands.

Dallas was declared "Missing In Action" when the Runner went missing somewhere in the Kuril Islands, Japan region during the war.

He was awarded the Purple Heart.

Service # 6024681

Dallas also has a "Cenotaph" in the Union Cemetery, McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania with his parents. ( see family links below )

The Runner was awarded one battle star for World War II service.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56111539/dallas-william-hunter

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHCC-8CG : accessed 14 May 2022), Dallas W Hunter in household of William Hectridt, East Prospect, York, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 1A, line 21, family 7, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2165; FHL microfilm 2,341,899.