Ships
- USS Haddock (SS-231) Commanding officer from 27 March 1945 · Relieved on 23 April 1946
Albert Rowe Strow was born on 17 September 1917 in Benton, Kentucky. His home was Paducah. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1939 and retired as a captain.
On the seventh war patrol of Gudgeon (SS-211), from 13 March to 6 April 1943, north of the Malay Barrier, he was the torpedo-data-computer operator. The Silver Star for that patrol credits four ships sunk and two damaged. A Navy and Marine Corps Medal was also his from a Gudgeon (SS-211) patrol. He was the computer operator, and he was not her commanding officer.
He took Haddock (SS-231) on 27 March 1945 as a temporary lieutenant commander. The twelfth and thirteenth patrols were uneventful. She ended the last war patrol at Pearl Harbor on 22 August 1945. On 19 April, northwest of Guam, she exchanged recognition with Icefish. On 30 July she exchanged recognition with Seahorse, northeast of Torishima. He left her on 23 April 1946. She was decommissioned at New London on 12 February 1947. He died on 19 June 1998. uboat.net places the death at Wayland, Massachusetts.