Carl Eugene Kimmons (April 10, 1920 – August 4, 2016) was an American naval officer and World War II submariner who served in the United States Navy from 1940 to 1970.
He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1940, when racial segregation and discrimination limited African American sailors to low-ranked positions.
After undergoing basic training at Norfolk, Virginia, he was assigned to the destroyer USS McFarland in California in September 1940, where he took on administrative duties such as typing reports and maintaining the ship's log.
His first four patrols took place on the Plunger, where Kimmons was among the crew members responsible for loading torpedoes and manning the .50 caliber deck gun.
[3] On July 31, 1943, the Parche attacked an Imperial Japanese Navy convoy, sinking two enemy ships and damaging three others in the space of 48 minutes.
He rose to the rate of chief yeoman by 1952 and did shore duty at the naval station in San Juan, Puerto Rico.