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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 descending
MM 3c John Konnyu USN
Lt Stanley Klores USN
CM 2c William Kinney USN
RM 3c Michael Draveck USN
RM 3c Norman Dority USN
Sea 1c Irving Don USN
Sea 1c James Dunkle USN
F 2c John Dupriest USN
RDM 3c Lloyd Devereaux USN
Sea 1c Earl Derrick USN
Sea 2c Salvatore Delnoce USN
Sea 1c William Daniels USN
RDM 3c Bernard Davis USN
Sea 1c Fred Forehand USN
F 2c Louis Finkelstein USN
TM 3c Daniel Foley USN
BM 1c Alton Flippin USN
FC 1c Rolland Farnsworth USN
Sea 2c Charles Felts USN
Sea 1c James Fagg USN

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