KINGS

POINT

LINKS

 

USMMA
2nd Company
KPESA
LOGBOOK

Welcome aboard, you are visitor

JOSEPH J. LANDRON JR.

    Joseph J. Landron Jr. was an engine major aboard the SS Esso Gettysburg.  The tanker ship was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-66 (Markworth) at 1400 EWT on June 10, 1943 about 100 miles southeast of Savannah, GA while en route alone Altreco, TX to Philadelphia, PA with 120,000 barrels of crude oil.  37 crew members including Cadet Landron along with 20 Navy men were lost.