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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
F 1c Edward Tavis USN
F 1c Fred Marinelli USN
CEM Charlie Johnson USN
Sea 2c Salvatore Delnoce USN
SC 3c Delmar Gardner USN
CEM James Wenrich USN
Std 3c Marion Barksdale USN
Sea 1c Paul Bonsall USN
MM 3c Michael Chorich USN
Lt(jg) John Rookus USN
F 1c Arthur Schatz USN
EM 1c Melvin Peterson USN
F 1c Alton Talley USN
Sea 1c Frances Marko USN
Sea 1c Monte Kuykendall USN
Sea 1c William Daniels USN
F 1c Clarence Garman USN
F 1c Marvin Wilson USN
RM 3c Edward Bachleda USN
CFC Charles Booth USN

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