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Mike Harbin Obit
Jun 30, 1918 - May 10, 1942
Posted by: Susan Gabel
Departing Pearl Harbor on April 30,1942,Silversides headed for the Japanese home islands, in the area of Kii Suido, for the first of her many successful war patrols.
On 10 May, just after 08:00 local time, the submarine used her 3 inch gun to heavily damage a Japanese gunboat.
During this 75 minute action, an enemy machine-gun bullet killed one of her deck gunners, TM3 Mike Harbin, the only man to perish on the top deck of a submarine during World War II.
Harbin was buried at sea later that evening.
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