Technician Fifth Grade
853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation
United States Army Air Forces
Service Number 37411276
Purple Heart
He was a passenger on the HMT Rohna. The Rhona and four other troopships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177s. One of the 177s, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation
United States Army Air Forces
Service Number 37411276
Purple Heart
He was a passenger on the HMT Rohna. The Rhona and four other troopships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177s. One of the 177s, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
Technician Fifth Grade
853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation
United States Army Air Forces
Service Number 37411276
Purple Heart
He was a passenger on the HMT Rohna. The Rhona and four other troopships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177s. One of the 177s, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
853rd Engineer Battalion, Aviation
United States Army Air Forces
Service Number 37411276
Purple Heart
He was a passenger on the HMT Rohna. The Rhona and four other troopships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177s. One of the 177s, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
( Bio by: Russ Pickett )
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