Service history USS Liscome Bay
burial @ sea aboard leonard wood of 2 liscome bay sailors, victims of submarine attack i-175. foreground facing ceremony survivors of liscome bay. ship in background neville carrying remainder of survivors.
at 05:33, 23 minutes after explosion, liscome bay listed starboard , sank, carrying 54 officers , 648 enlisted men, including admiral mullinix, captain wiltsie, , pearl harbor hero ship s cook third class doris miller, down her. of 916 crewmen, 272 rescued, morris, hughes , hull.
including sailors lost on liscome bay, american casualties in assault on makin island exceeded strength of entire japanese garrison. future legal scholar robert keeton, navy lieutenant, survived attack.
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