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Belleau Wood

Ship Designation: 
CV-24
Date Lost: 
Monday, October 30, 1944
Kamakaze Attack near Leyte
While patrolling with her task group east of Leyte, BELLEAU WOOD shot down a Japanese suicide plane which fell on her flight deck causing fires which set off ammunition. Before the holocaust could be brought under control 92 men were killed or missing.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 91

Name Service Branchsort ascending
Sea 1c Kampsey Sahm USN
AOM 2c Robert Traynor USN
Sea 1c Harold June USN
AMM 1c Carlyle Fuglie USN
Sea 2c Leland Wickliffe USN
Sea 2c Paul Barker USN
Sea 1c Fredrick Runyon USN
Sea 2c Paul Walker USN
ARM 2c Jack Martin USN
ARM 3c William Eschuck USN
Sea 2c Carl Wilson USN
AMM 2c Russell Barlow USN
Sea 1c Fred Rauscher USN
ARM 2c Joseph Wall USN
ARM 1c Dodson Marsh USN
EM 3c Alfred Fenton USN
Sea 1c Emilien Beaupre USN
Sea 1c David Reynolds USN
Sea 2c John Walkup USN
ARM 2c George Marsh USN

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