Tec5 Earle C Peterson MIA feb 11 1945

[scottplen]

Heres my latest PTO group

Started out war Western defence cmd Elisted 8-1941

Lost when LST577 sunk by Japanese Sub RO 50

279th relpacement co lost 85 Infantry replacements going to philipines

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pictured with his wife and brother !

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Memorial maker in Il cemetery His body was never recovered!

[Chris Liontas]

Amazing group Scott! Thanks for posting this one!

[Chris Boonzaier]

Very nice group,

worth a magazine article IMHO.

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memorial stone in IL Body never recovered

[Hannibal Rex]

Another nice grouping!

It would be interesting to know about survivors from the LST. It isn't 100% confirmed that RO-50 was the killer, but it's quite likely the case. It also technically didn't sink LST-577, which makes the fact his body wasn't recovered interesting. Was he perhaps buried at sea, or lost in the initial explosion? She was soon after scuttled by the destroyer USS Isherwood, but it seems likely that the ship had probably suffered too much damage to be worthy of salvaging.

RO-50 had fired on the convoy the LST was in and was on the receiving end of a pretty brutal depth charging as a result, sustaining some moderate to severe damage as a result. Ironically she was nearly sunk by a IJNAF aircraft's depth charges on the way home (not the first time this happened to the sub either). She survived he war and was sunk during Operation Road's End.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/RO-50.htm

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IDPF confirms he was on LST 577

Has a complete list of Army personnel lost on LST-577