USNR WORLD WAR II
Quartermaster 3rd Class Charles B. Singles MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25-Dec-44
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Service # 2451082
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Captain: (Cdr J.E. Kyes, lost)
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24-Dec-43
Location: 45° 15'N, 21° 40'W - Grid BE 7343 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and men (97 dead and 79 survivors).
Notes on event
On 24 Dec, 1943, the American hunter-killer Task Group 21.14, formed around USS Card (CVE 11) was spotted by a German reconnaissance aircraft and the wolfpack Borkum was ordered to attack. The carrier had a narrow escape when three FAT torpedoes fired by U-415 (Neide) missed her at 01.43 hours. The same U-boat also missed USS Decatur (DD 341) with a Gnat.
At 05.05 hours, U-275 fired a Gnat at USS Leary (DD 158) and hit her on the starboard side in the after engine room. A second Gnat fired by U-382 (Zorn) at 05.21 hours missed the already sinking destroyer. She sank after a huge internal explosion within one minute about 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by USS Schenck (DD 159), which found U-645 (Ferro) later the same day, evaded a torpedo and sank the U-boat with depth charges.
Quartermaster Singles has a memorial at the Saint James of Kingsessing Churchyard, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; he appears in the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England (lost 24-Dec-43 officially declared killed 25-Dec-44). He also has a cenotaph memorial at the Barrancas National Cemetery located at the Naval Air Station in the city of Pensacola, Florida. His body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Leary (DD 158)
Quartermaster 3rd Class Charles B. Singles MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25-Dec-44
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Service # 2451082
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Captain: (Cdr J.E. Kyes, lost)
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24-Dec-43
Location: 45° 15'N, 21° 40'W - Grid BE 7343 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and men (97 dead and 79 survivors).
Notes on event
On 24 Dec, 1943, the American hunter-killer Task Group 21.14, formed around USS Card (CVE 11) was spotted by a German reconnaissance aircraft and the wolfpack Borkum was ordered to attack. The carrier had a narrow escape when three FAT torpedoes fired by U-415 (Neide) missed her at 01.43 hours. The same U-boat also missed USS Decatur (DD 341) with a Gnat.
At 05.05 hours, U-275 fired a Gnat at USS Leary (DD 158) and hit her on the starboard side in the after engine room. A second Gnat fired by U-382 (Zorn) at 05.21 hours missed the already sinking destroyer. She sank after a huge internal explosion within one minute about 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by USS Schenck (DD 159), which found U-645 (Ferro) later the same day, evaded a torpedo and sank the U-boat with depth charges.
Quartermaster Singles has a memorial at the Saint James of Kingsessing Churchyard, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; he appears in the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England (lost 24-Dec-43 officially declared killed 25-Dec-44). He also has a cenotaph memorial at the Barrancas National Cemetery located at the Naval Air Station in the city of Pensacola, Florida. His body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Leary (DD 158)
USNR WORLD WAR II
Quartermaster 3rd Class Charles B. Singles MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25-Dec-44
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Service # 2451082
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Captain: (Cdr J.E. Kyes, lost)
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24-Dec-43
Location: 45° 15'N, 21° 40'W - Grid BE 7343 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and men (97 dead and 79 survivors).
Notes on event
On 24 Dec, 1943, the American hunter-killer Task Group 21.14, formed around USS Card (CVE 11) was spotted by a German reconnaissance aircraft and the wolfpack Borkum was ordered to attack. The carrier had a narrow escape when three FAT torpedoes fired by U-415 (Neide) missed her at 01.43 hours. The same U-boat also missed USS Decatur (DD 341) with a Gnat.
At 05.05 hours, U-275 fired a Gnat at USS Leary (DD 158) and hit her on the starboard side in the after engine room. A second Gnat fired by U-382 (Zorn) at 05.21 hours missed the already sinking destroyer. She sank after a huge internal explosion within one minute about 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by USS Schenck (DD 159), which found U-645 (Ferro) later the same day, evaded a torpedo and sank the U-boat with depth charges.
Quartermaster Singles has a memorial at the Saint James of Kingsessing Churchyard, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; he appears in the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England (lost 24-Dec-43 officially declared killed 25-Dec-44). He also has a cenotaph memorial at the Barrancas National Cemetery located at the Naval Air Station in the city of Pensacola, Florida. His body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Leary (DD 158)
Quartermaster 3rd Class Charles B. Singles MIA/KIA
Official Date of Death: 25-Dec-44
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Service # 2451082
Awards: Purple Heart, Navy Good Conduct Medal,
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Captain: (Cdr J.E. Kyes, lost)
Ship: USS Leary (DD 158)
Mission: Convoy escort
Loss Date: 24-Dec-43
Location: 45° 15'N, 21° 40'W - Grid BE 7343 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre
Fate: Sunk by U-275 (Helmut Bork)
Complement: 176 officers and men (97 dead and 79 survivors).
Notes on event
On 24 Dec, 1943, the American hunter-killer Task Group 21.14, formed around USS Card (CVE 11) was spotted by a German reconnaissance aircraft and the wolfpack Borkum was ordered to attack. The carrier had a narrow escape when three FAT torpedoes fired by U-415 (Neide) missed her at 01.43 hours. The same U-boat also missed USS Decatur (DD 341) with a Gnat.
At 05.05 hours, U-275 fired a Gnat at USS Leary (DD 158) and hit her on the starboard side in the after engine room. A second Gnat fired by U-382 (Zorn) at 05.21 hours missed the already sinking destroyer. She sank after a huge internal explosion within one minute about 585 miles west-northwest of Cape Finisterre. The survivors were picked up by USS Schenck (DD 159), which found U-645 (Ferro) later the same day, evaded a torpedo and sank the U-boat with depth charges.
Quartermaster Singles has a memorial at the Saint James of Kingsessing Churchyard, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; he appears in the Tablets of the Missing at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire, England (lost 24-Dec-43 officially declared killed 25-Dec-44). He also has a cenotaph memorial at the Barrancas National Cemetery located at the Naval Air Station in the city of Pensacola, Florida. His body was never recovered.
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Leary (DD 158)
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