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USS Flier (SS-250)

Flier put in to Fremantle, Australia, to refit between 5 July 1944 and 2 August, then sailed on her second war patrol, bound for the coast of Indochina. On the evening of 13 August, as she transited Balabac Strait on the surface, she was rocked by a great explosion. She sank in 1 minute after striking the mine, but 13 officers and men got out of her. Eight of them reached the beach of Mantangula Island after 15 hours in the water. Friendly natives guided them to a coastwatcher, who arranged for them to be picked up by submarine, and on the night of 30-31 August, they were taken on board by Redfin (SS-272).

MoMm2 A.J Abrahamson

TM2 Victor J Anderson

ENS Herbert A Baehr

MoMM2 George J Banchero

CK3 Clyde Banks

RM2 Paul F Barron

S1 William H Bivens

EM3 Thomas L Bohn

MoMM1 Ervin A Borlick

MoMMC William J Brooks

F1 Elton S Brubaker

MoMM1 Edwin Canady

LT John E Casey

S1 Christian J Christensen

S1 Charles W Clawson

TM2 Roland J Cosgrove

S1 Charles L Courtright

EM1 William F Cowhey

EM3 John W Cowie

MoMM2 Robert A Cushman

MoMM3 Waite H Daggy

MoMM1 Peter A Daros

TM2 Thomas A Donovan

YN2 Walter E Dorriscott

QM2 Earle W Dressell

YN2 James E Elder

EM3 Harry G Ericson

EM3 Frank W Falowski

MoMM1 Fred E Fender

RM3 Bernard V Fite

S1 Walter D Freeman

PhM1 Peter A Gaideczka

GM3 Joseph J Galinac

TM1 Clyde A Gerber

BK3 Melvin G Getchell

MoMM2 Joseph W Grimshaw

TMC Kenneth L Gwinn

BM2 Gale W Hardy

S1 Eugene W Heller

MoMM2 Harry S Holtyn

MoMMC Edgar W Hudson

TM3 Sol Kantor

MoMM3 Oliver W Kisamore

RMC Walter J Klock

LT Paul Knapp

EM1 Joseph W Kucinski

TM2 George R Laderbush

TM3 Richard A Lambert

MoMM1 James Leroy

TM1 Boyd O Lindeman

F2 Gerald F Madeo

ENS P.S Mayer

S1 Edward H McCoy

MoMM3 Vernon C McLane

ENS Herbert a Miner

S1 Vernon L Moench

F1 Victor J Murawski

EM1 Harvey L Myers

TM3 Joseph G Nicholson

RM2 David H Nordhof

EM1 Charles W Parker

S2 Chester Payne

MoMM3 George W Phillips Jr.

EMC Mason Poole

GMC Charles D Pope

S1 Kit J Pourciau

LTjg W.L Reynolds

MoMM1 Michael N Ricciardelli

SM1 Robert C Rose

F1 Donald N See

SC3 Alvin L Skow

MoMMC James E Snyder

EM1 Jerrold C Taylor

SM1 John C Turner

MoMM2 Paul A Vest

RT2 James F Vogt

TM1 Lucius P Wall

SC1 James E Westmoreland