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Photo # NH 49926:  Midshipman Arnold Marcus., USN.  Photographed circa 1909-1913

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Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Arnold Marcus, USN (1892-1917)

Arnold Marcus was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on 26 June 1892. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy between 1909 and 1913 and was commissioned in the rank of Ensign upon graduation. He subsequently served in the armored cruiser Pittsburgh in the Pacific Fleet and, beginning in 1914, with the Asiatic Fleet in the gunboats Pampanga and Helena and the monitor Monadnock. The latter was tender to submarines stationed in the Philippines and, in April 1917, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Marcus became Commanding Officer of the submarine A-7. On 24 July of that year, while on patrol in Manila Bay, A-7 suffered an internal gasoline explosion and fire that fatally injured several of her crew. Despite his own injuries, Marcus attempted to beach the damaged submarine and refused medical care until his men had been treated. He died the following day at the nearby Canacao Naval Hospital.

The destroyer Marcus (DD-321), 1921-1935, was named in honor of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Marcus.

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Photo #: NH 49926

Midshipman Arnold Marcus, USN
(1892-1917)

Photographed taken while he was attending the U.S. Naval Academy, circa 1909-1913.
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Marcus, then commanding the submarine A-7, died on 25 July 1917 as a result of injuries received in a gasoline explosion and fire on board his boat the previous day, while she was on patrol in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands.
USS Marcus (Destroyer # 321, later DD-321) was named in his honor.

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