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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 descending
ACOM Avery Abram USN
Sea 1c James Schmid USN
Sea 1c John Pashkowsky USN
Sea 1c Avery Putnam USN
Sea 1c George Pyrch USN
Sea 1c Benjamin Pomichowski USN
AOM 1c Billie Nitzel USN
AOM 2c Edmund Nawrocki USN
EM 3c Maurlin Smith USN
ACOM Gewin Smith USN
Sea 1c Sidney Sommer USN
Sea 2c Carl Wilson USN
ACMM Billy Shelton USN
Sea 1c David Reynolds USN
Sea 1c Fred Rauscher USN
Sea 1c Fredrick Runyon USN
Sea 1c Kampsey Sahm USN
PR 2c Carl Crump USN
Mach Raymond Connell USN
Sea 2c Marion Clayton USN

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