USS Oberrender (DE-344)
After arrival at Manus, the ship remained anchored in Seeadler Harbor, and on 10 November was 1,100 yards (1,000 m) from the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood when the latter exploded. She was heavily damaged by fragments and exploding ammunition from the resulting conflagration, and had to be towed to the Lombrum Point Ship Repair Dock for repairs that lasted the rest of the month. Oberrender lost one sailor missing, one killed, and seventeen wounded in the explosion.
YON, Howard, Sea1c, USN, Mount Hood AE-11, November 10, 1944.
Lost as a result of the Mount Hood Explosion.
After arrival at Manus, the ship remained anchored in Seeadler Harbor, and on 10 November was 1,100 yards (1,000 m) from the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood when the latter exploded. She was heavily damaged by fragments and exploding ammunition from the resulting conflagration, and had to be towed to the Lombrum Point Ship Repair Dock for repairs that lasted the rest of the month. Oberrender lost one sailor missing, one killed, and seventeen wounded in the explosion.
YON, Howard, Sea1c, USN, Mount Hood AE-11, November 10, 1944.
Lost as a result of the Mount Hood Explosion.
USS Oberrender (DE-344)
After arrival at Manus, the ship remained anchored in Seeadler Harbor, and on 10 November was 1,100 yards (1,000 m) from the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood when the latter exploded. She was heavily damaged by fragments and exploding ammunition from the resulting conflagration, and had to be towed to the Lombrum Point Ship Repair Dock for repairs that lasted the rest of the month. Oberrender lost one sailor missing, one killed, and seventeen wounded in the explosion.
YON, Howard, Sea1c, USN, Mount Hood AE-11, November 10, 1944.
Lost as a result of the Mount Hood Explosion.
After arrival at Manus, the ship remained anchored in Seeadler Harbor, and on 10 November was 1,100 yards (1,000 m) from the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood when the latter exploded. She was heavily damaged by fragments and exploding ammunition from the resulting conflagration, and had to be towed to the Lombrum Point Ship Repair Dock for repairs that lasted the rest of the month. Oberrender lost one sailor missing, one killed, and seventeen wounded in the explosion.
YON, Howard, Sea1c, USN, Mount Hood AE-11, November 10, 1944.
Lost as a result of the Mount Hood Explosion.
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from South Carolina.
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