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Luce

Ship Designation: 
DD-522
Date Lost: 
Friday, May 4, 1945
Kamikaze Attack off Kerama Retto
Assigned radar picket duty off Okinawa on April 30, 1945, Luce was attacked by Japanese aircraft and successfully shot down the first attacker but not before he dropped a bomb which was a near miss that caused a power failure in the ship. ... Unable to bring her guns to bear on the second attacking aircraft, kamikaze struck the after section of the ship which knocked out the port engine, flooded the engineering spaces and caused a jammed rudder. ... Within one-half hour of attack, Luce took a heavy list to starboard and abandon ship was ordered. ... 126 of her 312 officers and men went down with the ship. The survivors were rescued by friendly forces

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 148

Name Service Branchsort ascending
Bkr 2c Virgil Degner USN
Sea 2c Wesley Delapp USN
F 1c Henry Demenchuk USN
Sea 1c Lloyd Ellingson USN
F 1c Charles Ehrhart USN
Sea 2c Everett Ehrky USN
FC 3c Frank Fratello USN
F 1c Morris Freeman USN
F 1c Sidney Friedman USN
MM 3c Glen Foulks USN
Sea 1c Roy Foor USN
SSML 3c Francis Fields USN
TM 3c Clyde Harrell USN
MM 1c John Hill USN
F 1c David Holt USN
Cox Willis Helder USN
GM 2c Robert Higgins USN
MM 3c Ralph Gledhill USN
MM 3c Bruno Gareffa USN
Cox Thomas Greathouse USN

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