USS Fechteler DE 157

USS Fechteler DE 157 Commissioning

USS Fechteler DE 157

Commissioning Ceremony 1 July 1943, Norfolk Navy Yard
Lieutenant Commander C. R. Simmers in command

DE 157 was sunk 5 May 1944 by German Submarine Attack, U-967, northeast of Oran, Algeria.
29 men were lost. 185 survivors were rescued by USS Laning DE 159 and other ships of the convoy.

Gone But Never Forgotten

5 May 1944
Joseph Casper Aloi EM 3/C
Chester Joseph Bazidio S 1/C
Romaine O. Blandy ENS
Le Roy Stewart Carlson MM 1/C
Myron Barthelemew Cieswki WT 2/C
Harry Emery Clark MM 2/C
Louis Joseph Contravo F 1/C
James William Craig MM 1/C
Richard Harold Daniels EM 3/C
George Edward Davies MM 3/C
Clyde Raymond Day MM 3/C
Raymond Camiele De Craemer F 1/C
Howard Leonard Dedrick Y 2/C
Henry Albert Elliott F 1/C
Charles Robert Jacoby CMM
Byron Kenneth Locke RdM 3/C
Thomas Hugh Loyd WT 1/C
Roland Laverne Oberly EM 3/C
Lawrence I. Rosenberg EM 2/C
John N. Scariano. Jr. MM 1/C
William Roswell Smith MM 1/C
James Joseph Tidwell S 1/C
Calvin Doss Weatherly WT 3/C
Robert Stephen Weimer FC 2/C
Roland Guy Wells S 2/C
Charles Roscoe Wilkins S 2/C
Norbert Frederick Wimmer S 2/C

6 May 1944
Henry Ossian Redman, Jr. F 2/C

7 May 1944
Floyd Anson Brymer, Jr. F 1/C

Photo courtesy of Navsouce web site

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