Eddie Dial

Gunner's Mate Second Class

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Shown here with a kamikaze propeller embedded in the after deck house.  Back L-R:  E.B. MacPherson, Allen Trent, Eddie Dial, Front:  J.R. Brown, R.P. Carpenter, E.H. Graver

Eddie was the Gun Captain  5in/38 caliber Mount III.

He was killed in 1948 in a West Virginia oil explosion.