Wife: Helen Frances Adkins, Newark, NJ
From a Jan. 1944 crew list for the SS Robin Goodfellow: Gunner's Mate Third Class Jake Lee Adkins, 19 years old, had signed on as part of the Navy gun crew in N.Y. on 9/08/1943 and would remain engaged at the next port of arrival. He had 14 months of service at sea, was 5'9" tall, weighed 145 pounds and had no tattoos, scars or other distinguishing marks.
Although Mr. Adkins died on July 25, 1944, he wasn't officially declared dead until July 26, 1945.
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USNR
Service No: 5600271
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the Service from Kentucky
The SS Robin Goodfellow was an American merchant ship owned by Seas Shipping Co. Inc, New York. The ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and five 20mm guns, and a US Navy Armed Guard crew of 27 men who had been trained to operate them. Gunner's Mate Third Class JAKE LEE ADKINS was a member of the Armed Guard crew on July 16, 1944 and was on board as the steamer, sailing alone, left Capetown, South Africa. With a cargo of 8620 tons of chrome ore, they were bound for Bahia, Brazil and then New York.
On the 25th, around 2:30 p.m., German submarine U-862 spotted the ship in the South Atlantic and torpedoed it, causing the Robin Goodfellow to sink. Although a distress signal was picked up by the Priam, a British merchant ship, nothing was found of the ship or the men.
There were 41 Merchant Mariners and 27 U.S. Navy Armed Guards on board; none survived.
Jake L. Adkins' name is included on the Wall of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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From a Jan. 1944 crew list for the SS Robin Goodfellow: Gunner's Mate Third Class Jake Lee Adkins, 19 years old, had signed on as part of the Navy gun crew in N.Y. on 9/08/1943 and would remain engaged at the next port of arrival. He had 14 months of service at sea, was 5'9" tall, weighed 145 pounds and had no tattoos, scars or other distinguishing marks.
Although Mr. Adkins died on July 25, 1944, he wasn't officially declared dead until July 26, 1945.
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USNR
Service No: 5600271
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the Service from Kentucky
The SS Robin Goodfellow was an American merchant ship owned by Seas Shipping Co. Inc, New York. The ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and five 20mm guns, and a US Navy Armed Guard crew of 27 men who had been trained to operate them. Gunner's Mate Third Class JAKE LEE ADKINS was a member of the Armed Guard crew on July 16, 1944 and was on board as the steamer, sailing alone, left Capetown, South Africa. With a cargo of 8620 tons of chrome ore, they were bound for Bahia, Brazil and then New York.
On the 25th, around 2:30 p.m., German submarine U-862 spotted the ship in the South Atlantic and torpedoed it, causing the Robin Goodfellow to sink. Although a distress signal was picked up by the Priam, a British merchant ship, nothing was found of the ship or the men.
There were 41 Merchant Mariners and 27 U.S. Navy Armed Guards on board; none survived.
Jake L. Adkins' name is included on the Wall of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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Wife: Helen Frances Adkins, Newark, NJ
From a Jan. 1944 crew list for the SS Robin Goodfellow: Gunner's Mate Third Class Jake Lee Adkins, 19 years old, had signed on as part of the Navy gun crew in N.Y. on 9/08/1943 and would remain engaged at the next port of arrival. He had 14 months of service at sea, was 5'9" tall, weighed 145 pounds and had no tattoos, scars or other distinguishing marks.
Although Mr. Adkins died on July 25, 1944, he wasn't officially declared dead until July 26, 1945.
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USNR
Service No: 5600271
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the Service from Kentucky
The SS Robin Goodfellow was an American merchant ship owned by Seas Shipping Co. Inc, New York. The ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and five 20mm guns, and a US Navy Armed Guard crew of 27 men who had been trained to operate them. Gunner's Mate Third Class JAKE LEE ADKINS was a member of the Armed Guard crew on July 16, 1944 and was on board as the steamer, sailing alone, left Capetown, South Africa. With a cargo of 8620 tons of chrome ore, they were bound for Bahia, Brazil and then New York.
On the 25th, around 2:30 p.m., German submarine U-862 spotted the ship in the South Atlantic and torpedoed it, causing the Robin Goodfellow to sink. Although a distress signal was picked up by the Priam, a British merchant ship, nothing was found of the ship or the men.
There were 41 Merchant Mariners and 27 U.S. Navy Armed Guards on board; none survived.
Jake L. Adkins' name is included on the Wall of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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From a Jan. 1944 crew list for the SS Robin Goodfellow: Gunner's Mate Third Class Jake Lee Adkins, 19 years old, had signed on as part of the Navy gun crew in N.Y. on 9/08/1943 and would remain engaged at the next port of arrival. He had 14 months of service at sea, was 5'9" tall, weighed 145 pounds and had no tattoos, scars or other distinguishing marks.
Although Mr. Adkins died on July 25, 1944, he wasn't officially declared dead until July 26, 1945.
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USNR
Service No: 5600271
Award: Purple Heart
Entered the Service from Kentucky
The SS Robin Goodfellow was an American merchant ship owned by Seas Shipping Co. Inc, New York. The ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in and five 20mm guns, and a US Navy Armed Guard crew of 27 men who had been trained to operate them. Gunner's Mate Third Class JAKE LEE ADKINS was a member of the Armed Guard crew on July 16, 1944 and was on board as the steamer, sailing alone, left Capetown, South Africa. With a cargo of 8620 tons of chrome ore, they were bound for Bahia, Brazil and then New York.
On the 25th, around 2:30 p.m., German submarine U-862 spotted the ship in the South Atlantic and torpedoed it, causing the Robin Goodfellow to sink. Although a distress signal was picked up by the Priam, a British merchant ship, nothing was found of the ship or the men.
There were 41 Merchant Mariners and 27 U.S. Navy Armed Guards on board; none survived.
Jake L. Adkins' name is included on the Wall of the Missing, North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia
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About the US NAVY ARMED GUARD
"The U.S. Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending U.S. and Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships during World War II.
The men of the Armed Guard served as gunners, signal men and radio operators on cargo ships, tankers, troop ships and other merchant vessels..."
from:http://www.armed-guard.com/about-ag.html
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BODY LOST AT SEA. Mr. Adkins was on the SS Robin Goodfellow when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-862
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