Service ID: 3285589.
Enlisted December 13, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Entered the service from Minnesota.
USS PILLSBURY (DD-227)
Official Declaration of Death: November 25th, 1945
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Mother: Mrs. Jane Graham Farnsworth, Route 2; Hinckley, Minnesota. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA place as Indian Ocean and his death date as 1 Mar 1942.
During the Battle of the Java Sea, a powerful Japanese force was patrolling the south part, in order to prevent any Allied ship to escape. The Japanese force consisted of 4 battleships, 5 cruisers, aircraft carrier Soryu and the destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 4. The 2 destroyers USS Edsall and USS Pillsbury and gunboat USS Asheville (sunk by Arashi and Nowaki), unaware of this, ran straight into this mighty force. All 3 of them were sunk, approx. 200 miles East of Christmas Island. Nearly none of the crews of the 3 destroyers survived. USS PILLSBURY and USS EDSALL are the only two American surface warships lost in World War II with no survivors. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138148
Enlisted December 13, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Entered the service from Minnesota.
USS PILLSBURY (DD-227)
Official Declaration of Death: November 25th, 1945
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Mother: Mrs. Jane Graham Farnsworth, Route 2; Hinckley, Minnesota. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA place as Indian Ocean and his death date as 1 Mar 1942.
During the Battle of the Java Sea, a powerful Japanese force was patrolling the south part, in order to prevent any Allied ship to escape. The Japanese force consisted of 4 battleships, 5 cruisers, aircraft carrier Soryu and the destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 4. The 2 destroyers USS Edsall and USS Pillsbury and gunboat USS Asheville (sunk by Arashi and Nowaki), unaware of this, ran straight into this mighty force. All 3 of them were sunk, approx. 200 miles East of Christmas Island. Nearly none of the crews of the 3 destroyers survived. USS PILLSBURY and USS EDSALL are the only two American surface warships lost in World War II with no survivors. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138148
Service ID: 3285589.
Enlisted December 13, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Entered the service from Minnesota.
USS PILLSBURY (DD-227)
Official Declaration of Death: November 25th, 1945
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Mother: Mrs. Jane Graham Farnsworth, Route 2; Hinckley, Minnesota. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA place as Indian Ocean and his death date as 1 Mar 1942.
During the Battle of the Java Sea, a powerful Japanese force was patrolling the south part, in order to prevent any Allied ship to escape. The Japanese force consisted of 4 battleships, 5 cruisers, aircraft carrier Soryu and the destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 4. The 2 destroyers USS Edsall and USS Pillsbury and gunboat USS Asheville (sunk by Arashi and Nowaki), unaware of this, ran straight into this mighty force. All 3 of them were sunk, approx. 200 miles East of Christmas Island. Nearly none of the crews of the 3 destroyers survived. USS PILLSBURY and USS EDSALL are the only two American surface warships lost in World War II with no survivors. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138148
Enlisted December 13, 1938 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Entered the service from Minnesota.
USS PILLSBURY (DD-227)
Official Declaration of Death: November 25th, 1945
Awards: Purple Heart
U.S., World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945 lists his Next of Kin's Home of Record as Mother: Mrs. Jane Graham Farnsworth, Route 2; Hinckley, Minnesota. Killed In Action.
U.S., Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Unaccounted-for Remains, Group B (Unrecoverable), 1941-1975 lists his MIA place as Indian Ocean and his death date as 1 Mar 1942.
During the Battle of the Java Sea, a powerful Japanese force was patrolling the south part, in order to prevent any Allied ship to escape. The Japanese force consisted of 4 battleships, 5 cruisers, aircraft carrier Soryu and the destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 4. The 2 destroyers USS Edsall and USS Pillsbury and gunboat USS Asheville (sunk by Arashi and Nowaki), unaware of this, ran straight into this mighty force. All 3 of them were sunk, approx. 200 miles East of Christmas Island. Nearly none of the crews of the 3 destroyers survived. USS PILLSBURY and USS EDSALL are the only two American surface warships lost in World War II with no survivors. Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138148
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