Schless, Leon Lloyd, EM1

Fallen

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Service Details

Last Rank
Petty Officer First Class

Last Primary NEC
EM-0000-Electrician's Mate

Last Rating/NEC Group
Electrician's Mate

Primary Unit
1943-1943, EM-0000, USS Corvina (SS-226)

Service Years
1940 - 1943

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Personal Details

Home State

Missouri

Year of Birth
1922

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Casualty Info

Home Town Rhineland, MO	Last Address 1059 Leavenworth San Francisco, CA

Casualty Date Nov 16, 1943
Cause KIA-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 1 (cenotaph)

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Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

The USS Corvina (SS-226) went on her maiden war patrol, leaving Pearl Harbor 4 November 1943. After topping off her fuel at Johnston Island on the 6th, she was never heard from again. Japanese reports suggest that she may have been sunk by a Japanese submarine on 16 November. Her loss was officially announced 14 March 1944. Electrician's Mate First Class Schless was listed as Missing in Action and later declared dead 9 January 1946.

Comments/Citation:

Service number: 3821987

Submarine war patrols:
USS Trigger (SS-237) - 1st through 3rd
USS Corvina (SS-226) - 1st

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1942-1943, EM-0000, USS Trigger (SS-237)

From Month/Year January / 1942	To Month/Year February / 1943
Unit USS Trigger (SS-237) Unit Page
Rank Petty Officer Second Class	NEC EM-0000-Electrician's Mate
Base, Station or City Not Specified	State/Country Not Specified

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USS Trigger (SS-237) Details

Career

Builder:	Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Laid down:	1 February 1941
Launched:	22 October 1941
Sponsored by:	Mrs. Walter N. Vernou
Commissioned:	31 January 1942
Struck:	11 July 1945
Fate:	Sunk by Japanese vessels in the East China Sea, 28 March 1945
General characteristics
Class & type:	Gato-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,525 long tons (1,549 t) surfaced 2,424 long tons (2,463 t) submerged
Length:	311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)
Beam:	27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)
Draft:	17 ft (5.2 m) maximum
Propulsion:	4 × Fairbanks-Morse Model 38D8-⅛ 9-cylinder opposed piston diesel engines driving electrical generators 2 × 126-cell Sargo batteries 4 × high-speed General Electric electric motors with reduction gears two propellers 5,400 shp (4.0 MW) surfaced 2,740 shp (2.0 MW) submerged
Speed:	21 kn (39 km/h) surfaced 9 kn (17 km/h) submerged
Range:	11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Endurance:	48 hours at 2 kn (4 km/h) submerged 75 days on patrol
Test depth:	300 ft (90 m)
Complement:	6 officers, 54 enlisted
Armament:	10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (six forward, four aft) 24 torpedoes 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) / 50 caliber deck gun Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

Type
Sub-Surface Vessel

Parent Unit
Submarines

Strength
Submarine

Created/Owned By

ET McPhillips, Thomas, Jr. (SS), ET3(SS)

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Last Updated: Sep 27, 2022

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USS Trigger (SS-237)

Fiste, Harold Leroy, CPO, (1939-1945)	EM	EM-0000	Chief Petty Officer
Benson, Roy, RADM, (1929-1969)	OFF	112X	Commander
Weeks, John Richard, CPO, (1941-1945)	TM	TM-0000	Chief Torpedoman
Williams, Charles Arthur, CPO, (1939-1945)	MO	MO-0000	Chief Petty Officer
McDonough, G. W., PO1, (1942-1945)	RM	RM-0000	Petty Officer First Class
Johanson, Lester Arne, PO2, (1942-1945)	RT	RT-0000	Petty Officer Second Class
Davis, John Edward, PO2, (1941-1945)	TM	TM-0000	Torpedoman 3rd Class
Dornin, Robert Edson, CAPT, (1935-1965)	OFF		Lieutenant Commander
Schneider, Earle Caffrey, LCDR, (1929-1943)	OFF		Lieutenant Commander
Beach, Jr., Edward, CAPT, (1939-1966)			Lieutenant
Irish, Charles Butler, LT, (1941-1945)	OFF		Lieutenant
Sincavich, John William, LT, (1939-1945)	OFF		Lieutenant
Beach, Edward Latimer, CAPT, (1935-1966)			Lieutenant Junior Grade