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WILLIAM PAUL STAATS
Water Tender First Class, United States Navy
Service# 3685883
USS WARRINGTON (DD-383)
Somers-class destroyer, commissioned February 9, 1938
Date of Enlistment: January 20, 1941
Home or Place of Enlistment: Jerome, Idaho
Date of Loss: September 13, 1944
Lost at Sea when the USS Warrington was sunk by the 1944 Great
Atlantic hurricane off the Bahamas on September 13, 1944.
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