United States Coast Guard WORLD WAR II
Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, Huey L. Bracknell MIA/KIA
Hometown: Michigan
Service # 568345
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Motor Machinist's Mate Bracknell appears Tablets of the Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge England. His memorial Little Hope Cemetery Harmon Bibb County Alabama, is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery o fUSS Leopold
" Click Here "
Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, Huey L. Bracknell MIA/KIA
Hometown: Michigan
Service # 568345
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Motor Machinist's Mate Bracknell appears Tablets of the Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge England. His memorial Little Hope Cemetery Harmon Bibb County Alabama, is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery o fUSS Leopold
" Click Here "
United States Coast Guard WORLD WAR II
Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, Huey L. Bracknell MIA/KIA
Hometown: Michigan
Service # 568345
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Motor Machinist's Mate Bracknell appears Tablets of the Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge England. His memorial Little Hope Cemetery Harmon Bibb County Alabama, is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery o fUSS Leopold
" Click Here "
Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, Huey L. Bracknell MIA/KIA
Hometown: Michigan
Service # 568345
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Motor Machinist's Mate Bracknell appears Tablets of the Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge England. His memorial Little Hope Cemetery Harmon Bibb County Alabama, is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery o fUSS Leopold
" Click Here "
Gravesite Details
Cenotaph Entered the Service From: Michigan
Family Members
Other Records
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
-
1930 United States Federal Census
-
UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current
-
U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985
-
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
-
Alabama, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
