Seaman 2nd Class, Chester McDaniel MIA/KIA
Home: Minnesota
Official Date of Death 25-Sep-43
Ship: American Steam merchant West Chetac
Service # 6383109
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal
Master: Frank Matthew Jasper
Mission: Transport war supplies TRIN-14 (dispersed)
Loss Date: 24-Sep-42
Cargo: 76097 tons of general war supplies
Location: 08.45N, 57.00W - Grid EO 1396 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana
Cause: Sunk by Heinrich Bruns U-175
Complement: 9 officers, 30 crewmen and 11 armed guards
At 09.24 hours on 24 Sep, 1942, the West Chetac (Master Frank Matthew Jasper), dispersed about seven hours earlier from convoy TRIN-14, was hit on the port side at #2 hold by one torpedo from U-175 about 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana. The U-boat reported that the ship had an aircraft escort for some time, was zigzagging at various speeds and missed by a spread of three torpedoes at 06.45 hours. The explosion blew off the hatch covers and beams and caused the ship to sink by the bow within two minutes. The nine officers, 30 crewmen and eleven armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) tried to abandon ship in four lifeboats but rough seas and the suction of the sinking ship capsized all boats, drowning many men. Three officers, 14 crewmen and two armed guards rescued themselves on three rafts and were questioned by the Germans. The survivors were picked up on 1 October by USS Roe (DD 418) about 20 miles off Trinidad and landed at Port of Spain, where six crewmen and the armed guards were hospitalized.
Crew of West Chetac
Leo H. Bernstein Merchant Marine
Demetrio Cortez
James C. Deidrick
Frank DeVito
Daniel Ellard, Jr.
Thomas R. Fielding USNR
Russell B. Flippen
Arthur W. Hazard
William C. Helmbold
Louis Honigman
Frank M. Jasper
John A. Johnson
Raymond Kelly
Sanford I. Lakin USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
George Ulmer Malloy USNR
James Russell Mann USNR
Paul Allen Matthews USNR
Chester McDaniel USNR
Roy McNish
William Meade USNR
William Meade USNR
Joseph Miller
Antone P. Montgakes
John James Murawski USNR
Robert V. Palmer
George W. Parker
Emmet L. Poirrier
Henry Smith
Clifford B. Twiss
John B. Williams
Thomas W. Yates, Jr.
Home: Minnesota
Official Date of Death 25-Sep-43
Ship: American Steam merchant West Chetac
Service # 6383109
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal
Master: Frank Matthew Jasper
Mission: Transport war supplies TRIN-14 (dispersed)
Loss Date: 24-Sep-42
Cargo: 76097 tons of general war supplies
Location: 08.45N, 57.00W - Grid EO 1396 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana
Cause: Sunk by Heinrich Bruns U-175
Complement: 9 officers, 30 crewmen and 11 armed guards
At 09.24 hours on 24 Sep, 1942, the West Chetac (Master Frank Matthew Jasper), dispersed about seven hours earlier from convoy TRIN-14, was hit on the port side at #2 hold by one torpedo from U-175 about 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana. The U-boat reported that the ship had an aircraft escort for some time, was zigzagging at various speeds and missed by a spread of three torpedoes at 06.45 hours. The explosion blew off the hatch covers and beams and caused the ship to sink by the bow within two minutes. The nine officers, 30 crewmen and eleven armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) tried to abandon ship in four lifeboats but rough seas and the suction of the sinking ship capsized all boats, drowning many men. Three officers, 14 crewmen and two armed guards rescued themselves on three rafts and were questioned by the Germans. The survivors were picked up on 1 October by USS Roe (DD 418) about 20 miles off Trinidad and landed at Port of Spain, where six crewmen and the armed guards were hospitalized.
Crew of West Chetac
Leo H. Bernstein Merchant Marine
Demetrio Cortez
James C. Deidrick
Frank DeVito
Daniel Ellard, Jr.
Thomas R. Fielding USNR
Russell B. Flippen
Arthur W. Hazard
William C. Helmbold
Louis Honigman
Frank M. Jasper
John A. Johnson
Raymond Kelly
Sanford I. Lakin USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
George Ulmer Malloy USNR
James Russell Mann USNR
Paul Allen Matthews USNR
Chester McDaniel USNR
Roy McNish
William Meade USNR
William Meade USNR
Joseph Miller
Antone P. Montgakes
John James Murawski USNR
Robert V. Palmer
George W. Parker
Emmet L. Poirrier
Henry Smith
Clifford B. Twiss
John B. Williams
Thomas W. Yates, Jr.
Seaman 2nd Class, Chester McDaniel MIA/KIA
Home: Minnesota
Official Date of Death 25-Sep-43
Ship: American Steam merchant West Chetac
Service # 6383109
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal
Master: Frank Matthew Jasper
Mission: Transport war supplies TRIN-14 (dispersed)
Loss Date: 24-Sep-42
Cargo: 76097 tons of general war supplies
Location: 08.45N, 57.00W - Grid EO 1396 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana
Cause: Sunk by Heinrich Bruns U-175
Complement: 9 officers, 30 crewmen and 11 armed guards
At 09.24 hours on 24 Sep, 1942, the West Chetac (Master Frank Matthew Jasper), dispersed about seven hours earlier from convoy TRIN-14, was hit on the port side at #2 hold by one torpedo from U-175 about 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana. The U-boat reported that the ship had an aircraft escort for some time, was zigzagging at various speeds and missed by a spread of three torpedoes at 06.45 hours. The explosion blew off the hatch covers and beams and caused the ship to sink by the bow within two minutes. The nine officers, 30 crewmen and eleven armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) tried to abandon ship in four lifeboats but rough seas and the suction of the sinking ship capsized all boats, drowning many men. Three officers, 14 crewmen and two armed guards rescued themselves on three rafts and were questioned by the Germans. The survivors were picked up on 1 October by USS Roe (DD 418) about 20 miles off Trinidad and landed at Port of Spain, where six crewmen and the armed guards were hospitalized.
Crew of West Chetac
Leo H. Bernstein Merchant Marine
Demetrio Cortez
James C. Deidrick
Frank DeVito
Daniel Ellard, Jr.
Thomas R. Fielding USNR
Russell B. Flippen
Arthur W. Hazard
William C. Helmbold
Louis Honigman
Frank M. Jasper
John A. Johnson
Raymond Kelly
Sanford I. Lakin USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
George Ulmer Malloy USNR
James Russell Mann USNR
Paul Allen Matthews USNR
Chester McDaniel USNR
Roy McNish
William Meade USNR
William Meade USNR
Joseph Miller
Antone P. Montgakes
John James Murawski USNR
Robert V. Palmer
George W. Parker
Emmet L. Poirrier
Henry Smith
Clifford B. Twiss
John B. Williams
Thomas W. Yates, Jr.
Home: Minnesota
Official Date of Death 25-Sep-43
Ship: American Steam merchant West Chetac
Service # 6383109
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal
Master: Frank Matthew Jasper
Mission: Transport war supplies TRIN-14 (dispersed)
Loss Date: 24-Sep-42
Cargo: 76097 tons of general war supplies
Location: 08.45N, 57.00W - Grid EO 1396 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana
Cause: Sunk by Heinrich Bruns U-175
Complement: 9 officers, 30 crewmen and 11 armed guards
At 09.24 hours on 24 Sep, 1942, the West Chetac (Master Frank Matthew Jasper), dispersed about seven hours earlier from convoy TRIN-14, was hit on the port side at #2 hold by one torpedo from U-175 about 100 miles north of Georgetown, British Guiana. The U-boat reported that the ship had an aircraft escort for some time, was zigzagging at various speeds and missed by a spread of three torpedoes at 06.45 hours. The explosion blew off the hatch covers and beams and caused the ship to sink by the bow within two minutes. The nine officers, 30 crewmen and eleven armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) tried to abandon ship in four lifeboats but rough seas and the suction of the sinking ship capsized all boats, drowning many men. Three officers, 14 crewmen and two armed guards rescued themselves on three rafts and were questioned by the Germans. The survivors were picked up on 1 October by USS Roe (DD 418) about 20 miles off Trinidad and landed at Port of Spain, where six crewmen and the armed guards were hospitalized.
Crew of West Chetac
Leo H. Bernstein Merchant Marine
Demetrio Cortez
James C. Deidrick
Frank DeVito
Daniel Ellard, Jr.
Thomas R. Fielding USNR
Russell B. Flippen
Arthur W. Hazard
William C. Helmbold
Louis Honigman
Frank M. Jasper
John A. Johnson
Raymond Kelly
Sanford I. Lakin USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
Alvin Orie Lott USNR
George Ulmer Malloy USNR
James Russell Mann USNR
Paul Allen Matthews USNR
Chester McDaniel USNR
Roy McNish
William Meade USNR
William Meade USNR
Joseph Miller
Antone P. Montgakes
John James Murawski USNR
Robert V. Palmer
George W. Parker
Emmet L. Poirrier
Henry Smith
Clifford B. Twiss
John B. Williams
Thomas W. Yates, Jr.
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