US Navy WORLD WAR II
Commander, August F. Weinel MIA/KIA Official Date of Death January 8th 1946
Graduated U.S. Naval Academy first in his class of 1936
Hometown: Columbia Illinois
Wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Weinel
Service # 0-077206
Awards:Silver Star is not listed in some sources. Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal,
Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Commander James W. Coe MIA/KIA
Ship: USS Cisco (SS-290) date of loss November 6, 1943
Mission: 1st war patrol
Mission Date: 28-Sep-43
Location: In the Sulu Sea west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Cause: Probably sunk by air and surface attack
Crew: of 76 lost at sea
August graduated in 1931 from Dupo Community High School as class treasurer. Member of the Debate Team and public speaking course.
Obit:
Before the war is over three young men – two from the East Side and one from St. Louis – who were only midshipmen in the United States Naval Academy in the middle and late '30s are likely to become full-fledged skippers of their own submarines … They are David Connole '36 of Madison, August F. Weinel of Columbia and William P. Gruner Jr. of this city. …
Commander Weinel, also a Lieutenant and executive officer on his several cruises, had a great deal to do with the sinking of eight enemy vessels in the Pacific … He was a classmate of Connole at Annapolis, was most impressed when his crew was the first in the war to blast a Tokyo ship to pieces off the shore of Japan itself. What's more, their particular target on the enemy craft was the Japanese flag – and they made their shot through the Rising Sun emblem itself.
He saw his first service at sea on the cruiser Indianapolis. His first voyage was with President Roosevelt a passenger when the chief executive went to South America. He was an Ensign then. Later, he attended a submarine school.
The Monroe County man received what he calls his first "baptism of fire" when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His ship was coming in to port when the first enemy blows were dealt and, ordered to sea immediately, the crew was the first to patrol the coast off Japan.
Weinel is married and has two children. They now reside at Portsmouth, N. H. His father is Fred W. Weinel, retail lumber dealer at Columbia.
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The crew of USS Cisco were lost approximately on September 28 1943 and were officially declared KIA Jan 8 1946
Cisco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943. The only survivor from the crew was Chief Radioman Howell B. Rice (USN ret.), who was taken sick in Darwin and sent ashore to the Navy hospital prior to Cisco's final voyage.
Japanese records state that the submarine was attacked by Type 97 "Kate" attack bombers of the 954 Naval Air Squadron and the riverboat Karatsu (originally a U.S. Navy gunboat, USS Luzon (PR-7), captured by Japanese forces and put to work against her former owners).
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Commander, August F. Weinel MIA/KIA Official Date of Death January 8th 1946
Graduated U.S. Naval Academy first in his class of 1936
Hometown: Columbia Illinois
Wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Weinel
Service # 0-077206
Awards:Silver Star is not listed in some sources. Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal,
Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Commander James W. Coe MIA/KIA
Ship: USS Cisco (SS-290) date of loss November 6, 1943
Mission: 1st war patrol
Mission Date: 28-Sep-43
Location: In the Sulu Sea west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Cause: Probably sunk by air and surface attack
Crew: of 76 lost at sea
August graduated in 1931 from Dupo Community High School as class treasurer. Member of the Debate Team and public speaking course.
Obit:
Before the war is over three young men – two from the East Side and one from St. Louis – who were only midshipmen in the United States Naval Academy in the middle and late '30s are likely to become full-fledged skippers of their own submarines … They are David Connole '36 of Madison, August F. Weinel of Columbia and William P. Gruner Jr. of this city. …
Commander Weinel, also a Lieutenant and executive officer on his several cruises, had a great deal to do with the sinking of eight enemy vessels in the Pacific … He was a classmate of Connole at Annapolis, was most impressed when his crew was the first in the war to blast a Tokyo ship to pieces off the shore of Japan itself. What's more, their particular target on the enemy craft was the Japanese flag – and they made their shot through the Rising Sun emblem itself.
He saw his first service at sea on the cruiser Indianapolis. His first voyage was with President Roosevelt a passenger when the chief executive went to South America. He was an Ensign then. Later, he attended a submarine school.
The Monroe County man received what he calls his first "baptism of fire" when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His ship was coming in to port when the first enemy blows were dealt and, ordered to sea immediately, the crew was the first to patrol the coast off Japan.
Weinel is married and has two children. They now reside at Portsmouth, N. H. His father is Fred W. Weinel, retail lumber dealer at Columbia.
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The crew of USS Cisco were lost approximately on September 28 1943 and were officially declared KIA Jan 8 1946
Cisco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943. The only survivor from the crew was Chief Radioman Howell B. Rice (USN ret.), who was taken sick in Darwin and sent ashore to the Navy hospital prior to Cisco's final voyage.
Japanese records state that the submarine was attacked by Type 97 "Kate" attack bombers of the 954 Naval Air Squadron and the riverboat Karatsu (originally a U.S. Navy gunboat, USS Luzon (PR-7), captured by Japanese forces and put to work against her former owners).
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Cisco (SS-290)
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US Navy WORLD WAR II
Commander, August F. Weinel MIA/KIA Official Date of Death January 8th 1946
Graduated U.S. Naval Academy first in his class of 1936
Hometown: Columbia Illinois
Wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Weinel
Service # 0-077206
Awards:Silver Star is not listed in some sources. Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal,
Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Commander James W. Coe MIA/KIA
Ship: USS Cisco (SS-290) date of loss November 6, 1943
Mission: 1st war patrol
Mission Date: 28-Sep-43
Location: In the Sulu Sea west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Cause: Probably sunk by air and surface attack
Crew: of 76 lost at sea
August graduated in 1931 from Dupo Community High School as class treasurer. Member of the Debate Team and public speaking course.
Obit:
Before the war is over three young men – two from the East Side and one from St. Louis – who were only midshipmen in the United States Naval Academy in the middle and late '30s are likely to become full-fledged skippers of their own submarines … They are David Connole '36 of Madison, August F. Weinel of Columbia and William P. Gruner Jr. of this city. …
Commander Weinel, also a Lieutenant and executive officer on his several cruises, had a great deal to do with the sinking of eight enemy vessels in the Pacific … He was a classmate of Connole at Annapolis, was most impressed when his crew was the first in the war to blast a Tokyo ship to pieces off the shore of Japan itself. What's more, their particular target on the enemy craft was the Japanese flag – and they made their shot through the Rising Sun emblem itself.
He saw his first service at sea on the cruiser Indianapolis. His first voyage was with President Roosevelt a passenger when the chief executive went to South America. He was an Ensign then. Later, he attended a submarine school.
The Monroe County man received what he calls his first "baptism of fire" when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His ship was coming in to port when the first enemy blows were dealt and, ordered to sea immediately, the crew was the first to patrol the coast off Japan.
Weinel is married and has two children. They now reside at Portsmouth, N. H. His father is Fred W. Weinel, retail lumber dealer at Columbia.
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The crew of USS Cisco were lost approximately on September 28 1943 and were officially declared KIA Jan 8 1946
Cisco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943. The only survivor from the crew was Chief Radioman Howell B. Rice (USN ret.), who was taken sick in Darwin and sent ashore to the Navy hospital prior to Cisco's final voyage.
Japanese records state that the submarine was attacked by Type 97 "Kate" attack bombers of the 954 Naval Air Squadron and the riverboat Karatsu (originally a U.S. Navy gunboat, USS Luzon (PR-7), captured by Japanese forces and put to work against her former owners).
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Cisco (SS-290)
" Click Here "
Commander, August F. Weinel MIA/KIA Official Date of Death January 8th 1946
Graduated U.S. Naval Academy first in his class of 1936
Hometown: Columbia Illinois
Wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Weinel
Service # 0-077206
Awards:Silver Star is not listed in some sources. Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal,
Submarine Combat Patrol Insignia
Captain: Commander James W. Coe MIA/KIA
Ship: USS Cisco (SS-290) date of loss November 6, 1943
Mission: 1st war patrol
Mission Date: 28-Sep-43
Location: In the Sulu Sea west of Mindanao, Philippine Islands
Cause: Probably sunk by air and surface attack
Crew: of 76 lost at sea
August graduated in 1931 from Dupo Community High School as class treasurer. Member of the Debate Team and public speaking course.
Obit:
Before the war is over three young men – two from the East Side and one from St. Louis – who were only midshipmen in the United States Naval Academy in the middle and late '30s are likely to become full-fledged skippers of their own submarines … They are David Connole '36 of Madison, August F. Weinel of Columbia and William P. Gruner Jr. of this city. …
Commander Weinel, also a Lieutenant and executive officer on his several cruises, had a great deal to do with the sinking of eight enemy vessels in the Pacific … He was a classmate of Connole at Annapolis, was most impressed when his crew was the first in the war to blast a Tokyo ship to pieces off the shore of Japan itself. What's more, their particular target on the enemy craft was the Japanese flag – and they made their shot through the Rising Sun emblem itself.
He saw his first service at sea on the cruiser Indianapolis. His first voyage was with President Roosevelt a passenger when the chief executive went to South America. He was an Ensign then. Later, he attended a submarine school.
The Monroe County man received what he calls his first "baptism of fire" when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His ship was coming in to port when the first enemy blows were dealt and, ordered to sea immediately, the crew was the first to patrol the coast off Japan.
Weinel is married and has two children. They now reside at Portsmouth, N. H. His father is Fred W. Weinel, retail lumber dealer at Columbia.
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The crew of USS Cisco were lost approximately on September 28 1943 and were officially declared KIA Jan 8 1946
Cisco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943. The only survivor from the crew was Chief Radioman Howell B. Rice (USN ret.), who was taken sick in Darwin and sent ashore to the Navy hospital prior to Cisco's final voyage.
Japanese records state that the submarine was attacked by Type 97 "Kate" attack bombers of the 954 Naval Air Squadron and the riverboat Karatsu (originally a U.S. Navy gunboat, USS Luzon (PR-7), captured by Japanese forces and put to work against her former owners).
Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Cisco (SS-290)
" Click Here "
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