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Nashville

Ship Designation: 
CL-43
Date Lost: 
Wednesday, December 13, 1944
Kamikaze Attack near Mindoro
While en route to participate in the invasion of Mindoro, Nashville was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5-inch mount, both bombs exploding about 10 feet off the deck. ... Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5-inch guns continued to provide antiaircraft cover.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 103

Name Service Branchsort descending
Sea 1c Paul Branz USN
RM 3c Leo Crowe USN
RM 3c Guadalupe Martinez USN
BM 1c Harold Ende USN
Sea 2c Garlan Hewin USN
Sea 2c Ivy Prudhomme USN
Sea 1c Robert Budd USN
Sea 2c William Lawyer USN
Sea 2c Corbin Lewis USN
Sea 2c Charles Edwards USN
GM 1c Frank Surzinski USN
Sea 1c Roy Polson USN
Sea 1c Wendell Bullerdick USN
Sea 2c Olivo Layton USN
Ens Edward Lesniewski USN
Sea 2c Lonnie Drake USN
Sea 2c William Thomas USN
Sea 2c Thomas Okelley USN
Sea 2c Taylor Burgett USN
Sea 2c Raymond Lapoint USN

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