Son of Joseph Harding Coffer and Nellie Augusta Norton; married Beatrice V. (maiden name unknown); he was lost at sea.
U.S. Navy - World War II
Carpenter's Mate 3rd Class
MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25 December 1944
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24 December 1943
Location: 585 miles west northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and servicemen---97 died and 79 survived
Carpenter's Mate Coffer appears on Tablets of the Missing in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridgeshire, England. (Memorial #56288640)
This memorial is a cenotaph---his body was never recovered.
(Information provided by John Dowdy.)
U.S. Navy - World War II
Carpenter's Mate 3rd Class
MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25 December 1944
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24 December 1943
Location: 585 miles west northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and servicemen---97 died and 79 survived
Carpenter's Mate Coffer appears on Tablets of the Missing in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridgeshire, England. (Memorial #56288640)
This memorial is a cenotaph---his body was never recovered.
(Information provided by John Dowdy.)
Son of Joseph Harding Coffer and Nellie Augusta Norton; married Beatrice V. (maiden name unknown); he was lost at sea.
U.S. Navy - World War II
Carpenter's Mate 3rd Class
MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25 December 1944
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24 December 1943
Location: 585 miles west northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and servicemen---97 died and 79 survived
Carpenter's Mate Coffer appears on Tablets of the Missing in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridgeshire, England. (Memorial #56288640)
This memorial is a cenotaph---his body was never recovered.
(Information provided by John Dowdy.)
U.S. Navy - World War II
Carpenter's Mate 3rd Class
MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25 December 1944
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24 December 1943
Location: 585 miles west northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and servicemen---97 died and 79 survived
Carpenter's Mate Coffer appears on Tablets of the Missing in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Cambridgeshire, England. (Memorial #56288640)
This memorial is a cenotaph---his body was never recovered.
(Information provided by John Dowdy.)
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