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Howard W. Gilmore
Howard Walter Gilmore (September 29, 1902 – February 7, 1943) was a submarine commander in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroic self-sacrifice during World War II.
==Early Life and Career==
Howard Gilmore was born in Selma, Alabama, September 29, 1902 and enlisted in the Navy November 15, 1920. In 1922 he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy by competitive examination.〔Blair (1975) pp. 269-270〕 Standing 34 in a class of 436, Gilmore was commissioned in 1926〔 and reported to the battleship . Gilmore underwent submarine training in 1930 and in the years that followed served in various submarines and at stations ashore.〔DANFS〕
Gilmore served as the executive officer of , and in a near-fatal incident during Shark's shakedown cruise, narrowly survived an assault by a group of thugs in Panama, who cut his throat during an excursion ashore. He had to deal with several other instances of tragedy in his life, including the death of his first wife from disease, and at the time of his Medal of Honor action his second wife was still in a coma from a fall she had taken down a flight of stairs.〔 In 1941, he assumed his first command, USS Shark SS-174, only to be transferred the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor to take command of the still-unfinished .〔
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