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Home State
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Year of Birth
1922 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
Sheila Rae Myers, HM3
to remember
Akanowicz, Edward Walter, MM3c.
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Casualty Info
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Home Town
McKees Rocks, PA |
Last Address
844 Hober Ave
McKees Rocks, PA
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Casualty Date
May 28, 1945 |
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Cause
Hostile-Body Not Recovered |
Reason
Other Explosive Device |
Location
Pacific Ocean |
Conflict
World War II |
Location of Interment
Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii |
Wall/Plot Coordinates
Court 5 (cenotaph) |
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Last Known Activity
USS Drexler (DD-741) departed Ulithi 27 March 1945 bound for Okinawa and dangerous duty on a radar picket station. On 28 May at 07:00, two kamikazes attacked Drexler and Lowry. The first was downed by the combined fire of the two destroyers and planes from the combat air patrol. The second tried to crash onto Lowry but missed, hitting Drexler instead and cutting off all power and starting large gasoline fires. Despite the heavy damage, she kept firing, aiding in shooting down two planes which attacked immediately after the crash. At 07:03 she was hit by another aircraft, a twin-engined "Frances" P1Y1 bomber, and the "impact rolled her on to her beam ends, causing her to sink in less than 50 seconds". Because of the speed with which she sank, casualties were heavy: 158 dead and 52 wounded.
MM3 Akanowicz was among the men listed as missing and action and later declared dead.
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Comments/Citation
Service number: 6530703
The information contained in this profile was compiled from various internet sources.
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