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	Wire Service Photo -- September, 1942 The caption says... "Ten torpedoes for ten ships sunk by a U.S. Navy Submarine"; research indicates the most sunk by all subs operating out of Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by that time in late 1942. Charles F. Poyneer, RM1c is on the left; Leonard D. Dotson, EM1c is on the right of the picture.


	Chief Electricians Mate William E. Ballou


	CTM William E. Ballou would be awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal and Combat Distinguishing Devise, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with six Stars, American Campaign Medal, Submarine Combat Insignia, and the China Service Medal. "Ballou Hall" at the U.S. Naval Submarine School, New London, CT is named after this TRITON crewman.


	Thomas Charles Thompson was born on July 7, 1916 on the family farm near Akron, Michigan. The fourth of five brothers, he joined the NAVY after high school. He was a member of TRITON's commissioning crew, in Portsmouth, NH, and served on all Six War Patrols until TRITON was lost. In 1947, John Thompson named his oldest son Thomas and in 1958, Floyd Thompson named his youngest son Charles in memory of their lost brother.