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Cooper

Ship Designation: 
DD-695
Date Lost: 
Sunday, December 3, 1944
Torpedo Attack near Ormoc Bay
Operating in company with USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692) and USS Moale (DD 693) through Surigao Straits COOPER encountered a Japanese force of transports and escorting destroyers landing troops at Ormoc Bay, Leyte Philippines. The three US destroyers during the melee damaged or sank one destroyer, five transport freighters and 10 aircraft. At 0013 a Japanese torpedo found COOPER; she suffered a high order explosion on her starboard side, breaking the ship in two and sinking within a minute of the torpedo hit. 191 of her crew went down with the ship ... The proximity of Japanese forces precluded the immediate rescue of survivors by friendly surface forces, however the valiant efforts of “Black Cat” seaplanes enabled 168 survivors to later be rescued from the waters of Ormoc Bay

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 190

Name Service Branchsort ascending
M 3c Robert Shotak USN
F 1c David Travis USN
F 1c Harold Sullivan USN
BM 2c Paul Moreno USN
F 1c Stephen Lamadrid USN
F 2c Louis Finkelstein USN
Sea 2c Milton Gerber USN
Sea 2c John Williams USN
CBM Marion Barry USN
Sea 1c Harold Bowman USN
Bkr 3c John Cossu USN
WT 2c Harold Rourke USN
F 1c Clyde Short USN
Sea 1c Walter Toczek USN
F 1c Frank Thiede USN
F 1c Harvey Mcginnis USN
Lt(jg) Jeremiah Killigrew USN
TM 3c Daniel Foley USN
RDM 3c Miron Hamm USN
MM 3c William Woerfel USN

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