USMC World War II
PFC Donald E. Beilfuss KIA December 13, 1944 Died due to a kamikaze attack while serving aboard the USS Nashville
Unit Marine Detachment, USS Nashville
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Parents, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Beilfuss
service# 809736
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
USS Nashville (CL-43) was a Brooklyn-class cruiser. She was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 2 October 1937, sponsored by Misses Ann and Mildred Stahlman and commissioned on 6 June 1938
On 13 December, CL-43 was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.
The Attack Group Commander, Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, shifted his flag to Dashiell, and Nashville steamed via San Pedro Bay in the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, Oahu, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, arriving on 12 January 1945, for heavy repairs.
PFC Donald E. Beilfuss KIA December 13, 1944 Died due to a kamikaze attack while serving aboard the USS Nashville
Unit Marine Detachment, USS Nashville
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Parents, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Beilfuss
service# 809736
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
USS Nashville (CL-43) was a Brooklyn-class cruiser. She was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 2 October 1937, sponsored by Misses Ann and Mildred Stahlman and commissioned on 6 June 1938
On 13 December, CL-43 was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.
The Attack Group Commander, Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, shifted his flag to Dashiell, and Nashville steamed via San Pedro Bay in the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, Oahu, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, arriving on 12 January 1945, for heavy repairs.
USMC World War II
PFC Donald E. Beilfuss KIA December 13, 1944 Died due to a kamikaze attack while serving aboard the USS Nashville
Unit Marine Detachment, USS Nashville
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Parents, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Beilfuss
service# 809736
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
USS Nashville (CL-43) was a Brooklyn-class cruiser. She was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 2 October 1937, sponsored by Misses Ann and Mildred Stahlman and commissioned on 6 June 1938
On 13 December, CL-43 was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.
The Attack Group Commander, Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, shifted his flag to Dashiell, and Nashville steamed via San Pedro Bay in the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, Oahu, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, arriving on 12 January 1945, for heavy repairs.
PFC Donald E. Beilfuss KIA December 13, 1944 Died due to a kamikaze attack while serving aboard the USS Nashville
Unit Marine Detachment, USS Nashville
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Parents, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland R. Beilfuss
service# 809736
Awards: World War II Victory Medal, Purple Heart
Details of career here.
USS Nashville (CL-43) was a Brooklyn-class cruiser. She was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 2 October 1937, sponsored by Misses Ann and Mildred Stahlman and commissioned on 6 June 1938
On 13 December, CL-43 was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire.
The Attack Group Commander, Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, shifted his flag to Dashiell, and Nashville steamed via San Pedro Bay in the Philippines and Pearl Harbor, Oahu, to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, arriving on 12 January 1945, for heavy repairs.
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Date of Burial: 9/21/1948 - info provided by Find A Grave Contributor #48206502
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