Ensign
United States Naval Reserve
Service Number 0-144685
Purple Heart
USS New Orleans (CA-32)
Missing/killed in action - Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign
November 30, 1942 declared missing, declared dead December 1, 1943
With four other cruisers and six destroyers, the USS New Orleans fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer transport force. When flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which ripped off her bow. Bumping down the ships port side, the severed bow punched several holes in New Orleans' hull. A fifth of her length gone, slowed to 2 knots, and blazing forward, the ship fought for survival. Individual acts of heroism and self-sacrifice along with skillful seamanship kept her afloat, and under her own power she entered Tulagi Harbor near daybreak 1 December. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-orleans-ii.html
United States Naval Reserve
Service Number 0-144685
Purple Heart
USS New Orleans (CA-32)
Missing/killed in action - Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign
November 30, 1942 declared missing, declared dead December 1, 1943
With four other cruisers and six destroyers, the USS New Orleans fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer transport force. When flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which ripped off her bow. Bumping down the ships port side, the severed bow punched several holes in New Orleans' hull. A fifth of her length gone, slowed to 2 knots, and blazing forward, the ship fought for survival. Individual acts of heroism and self-sacrifice along with skillful seamanship kept her afloat, and under her own power she entered Tulagi Harbor near daybreak 1 December. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-orleans-ii.html
Ensign
United States Naval Reserve
Service Number 0-144685
Purple Heart
USS New Orleans (CA-32)
Missing/killed in action - Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign
November 30, 1942 declared missing, declared dead December 1, 1943
With four other cruisers and six destroyers, the USS New Orleans fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer transport force. When flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which ripped off her bow. Bumping down the ships port side, the severed bow punched several holes in New Orleans' hull. A fifth of her length gone, slowed to 2 knots, and blazing forward, the ship fought for survival. Individual acts of heroism and self-sacrifice along with skillful seamanship kept her afloat, and under her own power she entered Tulagi Harbor near daybreak 1 December. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-orleans-ii.html
United States Naval Reserve
Service Number 0-144685
Purple Heart
USS New Orleans (CA-32)
Missing/killed in action - Battle of Tassafaronga, November 30, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign
November 30, 1942 declared missing, declared dead December 1, 1943
With four other cruisers and six destroyers, the USS New Orleans fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer transport force. When flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which ripped off her bow. Bumping down the ships port side, the severed bow punched several holes in New Orleans' hull. A fifth of her length gone, slowed to 2 knots, and blazing forward, the ship fought for survival. Individual acts of heroism and self-sacrifice along with skillful seamanship kept her afloat, and under her own power she entered Tulagi Harbor near daybreak 1 December. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-orleans-ii.html
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