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O'Brien

Ship Designation: 
DD-725
Date Lost: 
Tuesday, March 27, 1945
Kamikaze off Kerama Retto
Aircraft attacked USS O'Brien on March 27, off Kerama Retto while U.S. forces secured an advance logistics base for the attack on the Japanese home islands. ... One plane crashed into the water as a result of gunfire while another, a Val suicide plane carrying a 500 pound bomb, crashed into the port side amidships exploding a magazine. ... Fifty were killed or missing and seventy-six wounded in the valiant crew.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 50

Namesort descending Service Branch
Sea 1c George Angelopoulos USN
MM 1c Anthony Bielunas USN
Cox Fred Brightwell USN
Lt(jg) Wilbert Brown USN
SOM 2c Darryl Byrge USN
CBM Fletcher Carr USN
Sea 1c William Cisowski USN
Sea 1c Daniel Collins USNR
SF 2c Hugh Cook USN
Sea 1c William Deese USN
Sea 1c Wilburt Defrehn USN
Sea 1c Rudolph Desalvatore USN
Sea 1c Austin Dickson USN
RM 2c Leon Diehl USN
CWT Robert Dilger USN
Sea 1c Johnnie Duncan USN
RT 1c Warren Fairbrook USN
F 1c Thomas George USN
CRT John Goad USN
CPhM Bob Hague USN

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