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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

Name Service Branchsort descending
GM 2c William Mitchell USN
Sea 1c George Angelopoulos USN
TM 3c Viggo Petersen USN
Sea 1c Wilburt Defrehn USN
Sea 1c Rudolph Desalvatore USN
MM 1c Anthony Bielunas USN
RM 1c Glenn Ramsey USN
Sea 1c William Deese USN
Cox Fred Brightwell USN
Sea 1c Orville Purple USN
RM 2c Leon Diehl USN
Lt(jg) Wilbert Brown USN
Sea 2c Vernon Norris USN
Sea 1c Austin Dickson USN
SOM 2c Darryl Byrge USN
Sea 1c John Mosley USN
CMM Virgil Higgins USN
CBM Fletcher Carr USN
SM 3c Robert Miller USN
EM 2c Francis Hartsell USN

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