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ROBERT L. LAMAE

He was a Deck major while at Kings Point before being called in to serve his country during World War II.  He served on the freighter, SS CHARLES C. PINCKNEY during the war.  The freighter left from New York on January 13, 1943, in convoy UGS-4 en route to North Africa.  Eight days later it straggled from the convoy during bad weather.  On the night of January 17, 1943 it was struck by a torpedo fired by the German U-514 (Aufferman), and it sunk bow first at 0830 the next morning.  Eight officers, twenty-eight men, and eighteen armed guards died, among them Robert L. Lamae.