Date Of Loss:
With the USS Houston burning and sinking in the Sunda Strait on February 28, 1942, Private Charles went looking for PFC Corsberg, as he knew the latter was a poor swimmer. “He was on the five-inch guns behind the hangar,” Charles would later write. “I’d get a life raft and get him on it, and somehow we’d make it to shore together.” Sadly, Charles was unable to find his friend before a torpedo dealt the fatal blow to the cruiser; Howard Corsberg was never seen alive again. He was officially declared dead on December 15, 1945.
With the USS Houston burning and sinking in the Sunda Strait on February 28, 1942, Private Charles went looking for PFC Corsberg, as he knew the latter was a poor swimmer. “He was on the five-inch guns behind the hangar,” Charles would later write. “I’d get a life raft and get him on it, and somehow we’d make it to shore together.” Sadly, Charles was unable to find his friend before a torpedo dealt the fatal blow to the cruiser; Howard Corsberg was never seen alive again. He was officially declared dead on December 15, 1945.
Date Of Loss:
With the USS Houston burning and sinking in the Sunda Strait on February 28, 1942, Private Charles went looking for PFC Corsberg, as he knew the latter was a poor swimmer. “He was on the five-inch guns behind the hangar,” Charles would later write. “I’d get a life raft and get him on it, and somehow we’d make it to shore together.” Sadly, Charles was unable to find his friend before a torpedo dealt the fatal blow to the cruiser; Howard Corsberg was never seen alive again. He was officially declared dead on December 15, 1945.
With the USS Houston burning and sinking in the Sunda Strait on February 28, 1942, Private Charles went looking for PFC Corsberg, as he knew the latter was a poor swimmer. “He was on the five-inch guns behind the hangar,” Charles would later write. “I’d get a life raft and get him on it, and somehow we’d make it to shore together.” Sadly, Charles was unable to find his friend before a torpedo dealt the fatal blow to the cruiser; Howard Corsberg was never seen alive again. He was officially declared dead on December 15, 1945.
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Entered the service from Colorado.
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