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Asheville

Ship Designation: 
PG-21
Date Lost: 
Wednesday, March 3, 1943
Action south of Java
While attempting to proceed to Australia and hampered by chronic engine problems, Asheville was steaming toward a designated rendezvous point 500 miles SW of Tjilatjap to join up with other units of Asiatic Fleet. Unbeknownst to Asheville rendezvous point had been compromised and Japanese destroyer and cruiser were lying in wait for the arrival of US forces. Japanese poured gunfire into Asheville for 30 minutes rendering grave damage. ... The ship sank from gunfire damage sustained from Japanese attack and 160 members of the crew went down with the ship. There was one survivor who was rescued by Japanese destroyer and interred in a POW camp in the Celebes. He died in March 1945 while a prisoner of the Japanese.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 169

Name Service Branchsort descending
Sea 1c Walter Volkman USN
Y 3c Leo Wagoner USN
Sea 1c James Walser USN
Sea 2c Otto Walls USN
Act Pay Clk Harold Walstrom USN
SK 3c Elmer Ward USN
MM 2c Robert Tucker USN
Ens Richard Towill USN
Cox James Trammell USN
MM 3c Orlando Timmons USN
Y 3c John Tinkle USN
Sea 2c Buenaventura Videna USN
MM 3c Leonard Vaughn USN
MM 3c George Vallis USN
BM 1c Raymond Tuttle USN
CWT Claude Stubblefield USN
Sea 1c Paul Sparks USN
GM 3c Joseph Stanton USN
SM 1c Edwin Steinbeck USN
Sea 1c Charles Tate USN

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Prepared by CAPT R.O. Strange USN (Ret.)