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Louney, Walter Howard, LT.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Milton, MA
Last Address 4 Atkins St Brighton, MA
Casualty Date Sep 28, 1943
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location Pacific Ocean
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment Manila American Cemetery - Taguig City, Philippines
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Additional Information
Last Known Activity:
The USS Cisco (SS-290) began her first war patrol on 20 September 1943, and was never heard from after that. Japanese records indicate that a submarine was attacked and sunk on 28 September in the area where the USS Cisco was the only known American Submarine. Lieutenant Louney was listed as Missing in Action and later declared dead on 8 January 1946.
New Guinea Campaign (1943-44)/Sinking of the USS Cisco (SS-290)
From Month/Year
September / 1943
To Month/Year
September / 1943
Description isco sailed from Panama 7 August 1943 for Brisbane, Australia, arriving 1 September to assume local patrol duties, until 18 September, when she docked at Darwin. She put out on her first war patrol 20 September, but never returned. Japanese records tell of sighting a submarine leaking oil on 28 September in an area where Cisco is known to have been the only submarine then operating. Japanese records state this submarine was sunk by bombs and depth charges. Japanese records state that the submarine was attacked by Type 97 "Kate" attack bombers of the 954 Naval Air Squadron and the riverboat Karatsu (originally the U.S. Navy gunboat USS Luzon (PR-7), captured by Japanese forces and put to work against her former owners). Cisco is thus presumed to have been lost in action 28 September 1943.
