Battle of Cape Esperance
Minor Butler Poole was born on 2 February 1920, in Brandon, Mississippi. He enlisted in the United States Navy on 15 February 1938. During the Battle of Cape Esperance at Guadalcanal, Poole was in charge of the Forward Magazine Flooding Control Station aboard . He died in an attempt to reach the flooding panel through overpowering gas fumes on 12 October 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.