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Reid

Ship Designation: 
DD-369
Date Lost: 
Monday, December 11, 1944
Kamikaze Attacks near Surigao Straits
Escorting reinforcements for Ormoc Bay near Surigao Straits Reid destroyed seven Japanese planes, before she sank from repeated kamikaze crashes. Her 150 survivors were picked up by landing craft in her convoy. ...The tradegy of 11 December 1944 was the snuffing out of lives of almost half of the ship's company. They all were at their battle stations fighting to save the Reid one minute, and dead the next. Any way one looks at it, it was an unmitigated disaster. With one or two exceptions these were young people in their teens abd early twenties with their whole lives ahead of them. They were good, well-trained destroyer sailors who had experienced more than their share of close-call air attacks. They didn't do something they shouldn't have done, or fail to do something they should have done. The savagery of the attack was just more than any destroyer could handle - and it cost these men their lives.

We honor their memory and pay tribute to their sacrifice.


CAPT. Rufus C. Porter, USN (Ret)
The last Executive Officer
of the USS REID(DD-369)

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 103

Name Service Branchsort descending
GM 2c Cecil Molyneux USN
Sea 2c Gerald Outcelt USN
TM 3c Walter Stalun USN
GM 1c Michael Addorizzi USN
StM 2c Mclean Chavis USN
BM 2c John Haywood USN
CPhM David Nolte USN
Sea 2c Earl Outlaw USN
WT 1c John Stockemer USN
F 1c Arthur Anderson USN
F 2c John Colopy USN
Y 2c Colville Hemphill USN
F 2c John Olejniczak USN
Sea 2c William Outlaw USN
TM 2c Trumand Strong USN
WT 3c Eugene Klein USN
WT 3c Paul Crowe USN
F 1c Calvin Hutson USN
Sea 2c Richard Olentine USN
Sea 2c Jesse Overton USN

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