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Narrated By
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Michael Marmé, PH.D.
Fordham University,
New YORK, NY
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USS Intrepid (CV-11)
The crew of USS Intrepid, like most of the sailors in the fleet, heard the ship’s general alarm while they were at lunch. Scrambling to their guns, it wasn't long before they were under attack. Two kamikazes penetrated Intrepid's antiaircraft umbrella. One, piloted by Suehiro Ikeda, penetrated the flight deck and caused extensive fires on the hangar deck. Kohichi Nunoda’s aircraft hit Intrepid four minutes later, killing most of the firefighting party on the hangar deck. Intrepid burned for four hours. Sixty-five Americans were killed in the attack.
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Lou Valenti On Kamikaze Attack
Lou Valenti was on the bridge when the kamikazes hit. He went forward to make a report to the Admiral's Bridge when an officer informed him that a second plane had struck Intrepid. Ed Coyne had been eating lunch with Ray Rucinski when general quarters sounded. When he went to look for his friend, after the fires were out, Coyne found that Rucinski was dead.
A fireball erupts as a kamikaze explodes on USS Intrepid (CV-11) on November 25, 1944
The November 25 attacks knocked Intrepid out of the war until January 1945.
Fifty-eight years later, on the spot where Ray Rucinski died, high school students have come to learn about a little-known and often forgotten battle, one of many in the Pacific War. A battle Lou Valenti and Ed Coyne will always remember.
USS Intrepid Killed or Missing In Action
Intrepid Crew List provided by Anthony F. Zollo, Sr. ©1993 and ©2003 Anthony F. Zollo, Sr.
Bauer, Oswald S1/c
Bracken, James S2/c
Bearden, Harry ART1/c
Casteel, Charles S1/c
Colwell, George S2/c
Compton, Clyde S1/c
Cooke, Odell S2/c*
Cooper, Hugh S1/c
Darden, Elton S1/c
Darnauer, Henry S1/c
Davis, Russell S1/c*
Defedele, Louis S1/c
D'Ermenegildo, David S2/c
DiMarzo, Dom Lt*
Dousay, Willie S1/c
Fischer, John S1/c
Fiore, Vito S1/c*
Fish, John L.Cmdr
Folletta, Emil S1/c
Frank, Howard Lt (jg)
Gattey, John Ens
Grieg, Wallace S2/c
Hamblin, Will AMM2/c*
Hanke, John S1/c
Hecker, Nathan ACRT
Helms, Loumas S1/c
Hentosh, Alexander S1/c
Hitt, Samuel Carp.
Hjelmeng, Eldon Acom
Hope, Raymond S1/c*
Hurd, Donald TM3/c*
Kahler, Vernon EM3/c*
Krouch, Dean S1/c
Kuhns, Robert S1/c
Lasater, Delmar “B” PHM3/c
Mancini, Joseph F1/c*
Martin, Merl S1/c
McDonald, John “Jay” S1/c
Morgan, Robert S1/c
Matiaz, William Hennon HA1/c
Nelson, Sern Calvin AMM1/c
Nieto, Richard RdM3/c
Peterson, Cecil S1/c
Robinson, Laurence RdM3/c
Rucinski, Raymond COX
Schnack, Harold AMM3/c
Schultz, Walter S1/c
Schulz, Burhl S1/c
Schug, Robert MM3/c
Sides, Horace S1/c
Smith, William Donalson PHM2/c
Sorenson, Earl S1/c
Steffen, Kenneth S1/c
Steffens, Eskew S1/c
Tucker, Harold “Jack” S2/c
Van Every, Norvel S2/c
Wallace, Reginald ACMM
Ward, John PHM3/c
Wells, Harry S2/c
Whatley, George S1/c
White, Albert S2/c
White, Harold S1/c
Whitner, Henry Lt
Whittington, Ralph S1/c
Williey, Lyle TMV3/c
Winslow, James PHM2/c
Wood, Lumpkin ACMM
Yoder, Charles RdM3/c
Zeig, Harold RdM3/c**Missing in Action on November 25, 1944
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