Career
During the Battle of Cape Esperance at Guadalcanal, Poole was in charge of the Forward Magazine Flooding Control Station aboard United States Ship Boise (CL-47). 107 Boise crewmembers died in that battle. United States Ship Poole (Delaware-151), named in his honor, launched May 8, 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas.
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Minor Herndon Poole, mother of Minor Butler Poole. Poole"s mother used a bottle filled with water from Liberty Creek in Mississippi to christen the ship instead of the traditional Champagne.
