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Columbia

Ship Designation: 
CL-56
Date Lost: 
Tuesday, January 9, 1945
Kamikaze Attack at Lingayen Gulf
On the morning of the Lingayen Gulf landings, as Columbia lay close inshore and so surrounded by landing craft that she was handicapped in maneuver, she was again crashed by a kamikaze, knocking out six gun directors and gun mount. ... Twenty-four men were killed and 97 wounded,

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 20

Namesort ascending Service Branch
Sea 1c Richard Thompson USNR
Cox Santo Tabacchi USN
CSK Enos Roberts USNR
WT 3c Bernard Pull USNR
CTC William Niles USN
Sea 1c Walter Myers USNR
Lt(jg) Richard Major USNR
FC 3c Robert Loysch USNR
FC 3c Frank Lindauer USN
Sea 1c Hugo Liberatore USNR
Sea 1c Philip Ketcham USNR
Sea 1c Donald Keegan USN
FC 2c Eugene Jennings USN
Sea 2c Malcolm Cook USNR
RDM 3c James Conroy USN
Sea 1c Charles Clark USNR
Sea 1c James Brown USN
Cox Robert Brady USN
Lt Orrin Boice USNR
Sea 1c Calvin Adams USN
Prepared by Capt R.O. Strange USN (Ret.)