***The date above reflects the date he went missing and was listed as missing in action. His actual date of death is unknown and no remains were ever recovered. It is believed he perished in the attack. The military officially declared him dead on 19 Jan 1946.***
Loss Date- 13 Aug 1944
Death Date- 19 Jan 1946
Location- Balabac Strait near Mantagule Island
Cause- Sunk by Mine
Rank- Ensign *The majority of sources list him as an Ensign; however, the Navy and Marine Corps Register shows that he was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade on 9/1/1944. This promotion would have occurred after the USS Flier was lost but before Herbert Baehr was declared dead. *
Decorations- Purple Heart, Silver Star, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Phillippine Liberation Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Service Number- 56772105
Ship- USS Flier (SS-250)
Mission- Second war patrol
Mission Date: 25-Oct-1944
USS Flier, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in mid-October 1943. She departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in January 1944. While entering the harbor at Midway Island during a storm, she went aground and was seriously damaged.
The damaged submarine was towed back to Pearl Harbor and finally reached the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was repaired. Flier made another start on her first war patrol in May 1944, heading from Pearl Harbor to the waters off Luzon. While en route on 4 June she attacked and sank the transport Hakusan Maru. On June 13, she attacked a Japanese convoy off Subic Bay, receiving a depth charging in return, and on June 22-23, hit another convoy off Mindoro, apparently damaging one or more ships.
In early August 1944 Flier left Fremantle, Australia, for her second war patrol. On 13 August, while transiting shallow water to enter the South China Sea, she struck a mine and quickly sank. Fourteen of 86 crewmen escaped, but only eight survived the subsequent long swim to reach shore. After making their way by raft to Palawan and being protected by local people and a group of guerrillas, at the end of the month they were evacuated by the submarine USS Redfin (SS-272).
The following USS Flier crew members survived the sinking and were later rescued by USS Redfin (SS-272).
1 Earl R. Bumgart
2 John Daniel Crowley
3 James Dello Russo*
4 Arthur Gibson Howell
5 Alvin E. Jacobson, Jr.
6 James W. Liddell, Jr.
7 Wesley Bruce Miller
8 Donald Paul Tremaine
Herbert was the second child of Justus Wilhelm Baehr and Helene.
Loss Date- 13 Aug 1944
Death Date- 19 Jan 1946
Location- Balabac Strait near Mantagule Island
Cause- Sunk by Mine
Rank- Ensign *The majority of sources list him as an Ensign; however, the Navy and Marine Corps Register shows that he was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade on 9/1/1944. This promotion would have occurred after the USS Flier was lost but before Herbert Baehr was declared dead. *
Decorations- Purple Heart, Silver Star, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Phillippine Liberation Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Service Number- 56772105
Ship- USS Flier (SS-250)
Mission- Second war patrol
Mission Date: 25-Oct-1944
USS Flier, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in mid-October 1943. She departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in January 1944. While entering the harbor at Midway Island during a storm, she went aground and was seriously damaged.
The damaged submarine was towed back to Pearl Harbor and finally reached the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was repaired. Flier made another start on her first war patrol in May 1944, heading from Pearl Harbor to the waters off Luzon. While en route on 4 June she attacked and sank the transport Hakusan Maru. On June 13, she attacked a Japanese convoy off Subic Bay, receiving a depth charging in return, and on June 22-23, hit another convoy off Mindoro, apparently damaging one or more ships.
In early August 1944 Flier left Fremantle, Australia, for her second war patrol. On 13 August, while transiting shallow water to enter the South China Sea, she struck a mine and quickly sank. Fourteen of 86 crewmen escaped, but only eight survived the subsequent long swim to reach shore. After making their way by raft to Palawan and being protected by local people and a group of guerrillas, at the end of the month they were evacuated by the submarine USS Redfin (SS-272).
The following USS Flier crew members survived the sinking and were later rescued by USS Redfin (SS-272).
1 Earl R. Bumgart
2 John Daniel Crowley
3 James Dello Russo*
4 Arthur Gibson Howell
5 Alvin E. Jacobson, Jr.
6 James W. Liddell, Jr.
7 Wesley Bruce Miller
8 Donald Paul Tremaine
Herbert was the second child of Justus Wilhelm Baehr and Helene.
***The date above reflects the date he went missing and was listed as missing in action. His actual date of death is unknown and no remains were ever recovered. It is believed he perished in the attack. The military officially declared him dead on 19 Jan 1946.***
Loss Date- 13 Aug 1944
Death Date- 19 Jan 1946
Location- Balabac Strait near Mantagule Island
Cause- Sunk by Mine
Rank- Ensign *The majority of sources list him as an Ensign; however, the Navy and Marine Corps Register shows that he was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade on 9/1/1944. This promotion would have occurred after the USS Flier was lost but before Herbert Baehr was declared dead. *
Decorations- Purple Heart, Silver Star, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Phillippine Liberation Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Service Number- 56772105
Ship- USS Flier (SS-250)
Mission- Second war patrol
Mission Date: 25-Oct-1944
USS Flier, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in mid-October 1943. She departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in January 1944. While entering the harbor at Midway Island during a storm, she went aground and was seriously damaged.
The damaged submarine was towed back to Pearl Harbor and finally reached the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was repaired. Flier made another start on her first war patrol in May 1944, heading from Pearl Harbor to the waters off Luzon. While en route on 4 June she attacked and sank the transport Hakusan Maru. On June 13, she attacked a Japanese convoy off Subic Bay, receiving a depth charging in return, and on June 22-23, hit another convoy off Mindoro, apparently damaging one or more ships.
In early August 1944 Flier left Fremantle, Australia, for her second war patrol. On 13 August, while transiting shallow water to enter the South China Sea, she struck a mine and quickly sank. Fourteen of 86 crewmen escaped, but only eight survived the subsequent long swim to reach shore. After making their way by raft to Palawan and being protected by local people and a group of guerrillas, at the end of the month they were evacuated by the submarine USS Redfin (SS-272).
The following USS Flier crew members survived the sinking and were later rescued by USS Redfin (SS-272).
1 Earl R. Bumgart
2 John Daniel Crowley
3 James Dello Russo*
4 Arthur Gibson Howell
5 Alvin E. Jacobson, Jr.
6 James W. Liddell, Jr.
7 Wesley Bruce Miller
8 Donald Paul Tremaine
Herbert was the second child of Justus Wilhelm Baehr and Helene.
Loss Date- 13 Aug 1944
Death Date- 19 Jan 1946
Location- Balabac Strait near Mantagule Island
Cause- Sunk by Mine
Rank- Ensign *The majority of sources list him as an Ensign; however, the Navy and Marine Corps Register shows that he was promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade on 9/1/1944. This promotion would have occurred after the USS Flier was lost but before Herbert Baehr was declared dead. *
Decorations- Purple Heart, Silver Star, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Phillippine Liberation Medal, Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Service Number- 56772105
Ship- USS Flier (SS-250)
Mission- Second war patrol
Mission Date: 25-Oct-1944
USS Flier, a 1525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in mid-October 1943. She departed from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for her first war patrol in January 1944. While entering the harbor at Midway Island during a storm, she went aground and was seriously damaged.
The damaged submarine was towed back to Pearl Harbor and finally reached the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, where she was repaired. Flier made another start on her first war patrol in May 1944, heading from Pearl Harbor to the waters off Luzon. While en route on 4 June she attacked and sank the transport Hakusan Maru. On June 13, she attacked a Japanese convoy off Subic Bay, receiving a depth charging in return, and on June 22-23, hit another convoy off Mindoro, apparently damaging one or more ships.
In early August 1944 Flier left Fremantle, Australia, for her second war patrol. On 13 August, while transiting shallow water to enter the South China Sea, she struck a mine and quickly sank. Fourteen of 86 crewmen escaped, but only eight survived the subsequent long swim to reach shore. After making their way by raft to Palawan and being protected by local people and a group of guerrillas, at the end of the month they were evacuated by the submarine USS Redfin (SS-272).
The following USS Flier crew members survived the sinking and were later rescued by USS Redfin (SS-272).
1 Earl R. Bumgart
2 John Daniel Crowley
3 James Dello Russo*
4 Arthur Gibson Howell
5 Alvin E. Jacobson, Jr.
6 James W. Liddell, Jr.
7 Wesley Bruce Miller
8 Donald Paul Tremaine
Herbert was the second child of Justus Wilhelm Baehr and Helene.
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