| Birth: | Apr. 15, 1918
Jamestown
Stutsman County
North Dakota, USA | | Death: | Feb. 3, 1943, Greenland | 
He was the son of Camiel Landschoot (born in Belgium in 1888) and Bertha Ann Lee. Lloyd was married in 1937 to Irene Harv. They had 4 children. He was enlisted in the Army in 1942.
On January 23, 1943, the Dorchester left New York harbor with 904 people aboard. She headed north as part of a six-ship convoy en route to Newfoundland and Greenland. The ship carried 130 crewmen, 23 members of the Navy Armed Guard and 751 military personnel and others. After stopping to pick up supplies at St. Johns, Newfoundland, on January 27, the Dorchester returned to sea on January 29, accompanied by two other cargo ships and three Coast Guard cutters that formed their convoy.
While most men desperately attempted to save themselves from an icy death, the four chaplains, faced with men whimpering in fear as the ship descended into the cold Atlantic, did something that would stun everyone who witnessed it.
The four chaplains quickly moved among the bewildered men, calming them, directing them to life rafts, urging them to escape the doomed ship. Many had forgotten their life jackets. The chaplains located a supply in a deck locker and passed them out. When the bin was empty they pulled off their own and made others put them on.
Only two of the 14 lifeboats were successfully used in abandoning ship. Soldiers leaped into the icy sea. They clutched the gunwales of the two overloaded lifeboats, clung to doughnut-like rafts or floated alone. Some men were insulated by the thick fuel oil that coated them and floated in lifejackets for eight hours.
Source: Sinking of the Dorchester: The Story America Will Never Forget and the World, by Chester J. Szymczak. 1976.
His name is on the WW2 Memorial at Battery Park, NY
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Parents:
Camiel Landschoot (1888 - 1951)
Bertha Landscoot (1895 - 1961)
Children:
Marylin Ann Landscoot (1941 - 1941)*
Calvin Landscoot (1942 - 1942)*
Spouse:
Irene Harr Landscoot (1919 - 2008)*
*Point here for explanation
| | | Burial:
East Coast WWII Memorial at Battery Park
Manhattan
New York County
New York, USA
Plot: |
Maintained by: Hans Van Landschoot
Originally Created by: Paul F. Wilson
Record added: Oct 17, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9645849 |
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