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Peary

Ship Designation: 
DD-226
Date Lost: 
Thursday, February 19, 1942
Air Raid at Darwin Australia
While operating out of Darwin principally on anti-submarine patrol, Peary was attacked by Japanese dive bombers and suffered 80 men killed and 13 wounded. ... The first bomb exploded on the fantail, the second, an incendiary on the galley deck house; the third did not explode; the fourth hit forward and set off the forward ammunition magazines; the fifth, another incendiary, exploded in the after engine room. A .30 caliber machine gun on the after deck house and a .50 caliber machine gun on the galley deck house fired until the last enemy plane departed. ... Peary sank stern first as a result of the damage.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 92

Name Service Branchsort descending
MM 2c Everett Waite USN
MM 1c James Fair USN
Lt Martin Koivisto USN
MM 2c Frank Zizak USN
GM 3c Robert Chapman USN
F 3c Willis Polhemus USN
CMM Dale Stranathan USN
FC 3c Harold Frisbie USN
GM 1c Gilbert Kennaugh USN
B 2c Robert Armstrong USN
FC 3c Archie Cook USN
Sea 2c Eugene Poland USN
Sea 2c John Spata USN
MM 2c Chester Frayer USN
CM 1c Russell Keener USN
SM 3c John Cross USN
MM 2c George Radzinski USN
MM 2c Douglas Tew USN
CM 2c Willie Denmark USN
SK 3c Bob Kriener USN

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