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USS COOPER (DD-695)

CLASS - ALLEN M. SUMNER As Built.
Displacement 3218 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14' 2" (Max)
Armament 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm AA, 11 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.5 Knots, Range 3300 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 336.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ. August 30 1943.
Launched February 9 1944 and commissioned March 27 1944.
Subject of the Bigfoot Entertainment/Daniel Foster documentary - USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay
which is available at http://www.usscooper.com.
Fate Sunk by Japanese Destroyer Take in Ormoc Bay Leyte, Philippines December 3 1944.
191 of her crew were lost with the ship and remain on duty.
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Cooper 126kUndated, location unknown. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3d.-
Cooper 233kNew York Harbor March 25 1944 two days before commissioning.Courtesy Destroyer History Foundation
Cooper 187kNew York Harbor, March 1944.Hank Wagener
Cooper 55kJuly 1944, location unknown.Pieter Bakels
Cooper 75kJuly 1944, location unknown.Pieter Bakels
Cooper 95kNovember 7 1944, western Pacific with USS Yorktown in the background.Robert Hurst
Cooper 94kCropped version of above photo.-
USS COOPER DD-695 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The hazegray Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

CDR John William Schmidt    Mar 27 1944 - Oct 21 1944 (Later RADM)
CDR Mell Andrew Peterson Jr.    Oct 21 1944 - Dec 3 1944
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Battle of Ormoc Bay Association
Contact Name: Irwin J. Kappes
Address: 522 North Shore, Tinton Falls, NJ 07753
Phone: (732) 922-6438
E-mail: ijkapp@yahoo.com
Next Reunion: Boston Marriott-Quincy, Quincy, MA, September 25-29, 2008.

Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Destroyers Online Website
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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