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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

Namesort descending Service Branch
WT 2c Kenneth Holtzapple USN
MOMM 1c Robert Houser USN
Sea 2c Carlton Howe USN
Y 3c Martin Howe USN
EM 2c John Icart USN
Sea 2c Louis Jacques USN
Y 1c Gordon Jensen USN
MM 2c Lawrence Johnson USN
CEM Charlie Johnson USN
RM 2c Omar Johnson USN
Lt(jg) Jeremiah Killigrew USN
CM 2c William Kinney USN
Lt Stanley Klores USN
MM 3c John Konnyu USN
B 3c Arthur Kranz USN
EM 3c Robert Kronberg USN
Sea 1c Monte Kuykendall USN
F 1c Stephen Lamadrid USN
SOM 2c Samuel Leone USN
F 1c Elmer Lewis USN

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