Milt Card's USS Brownson DD-518

Wikipedia.

In the last post, I mentioned that Milt Card had also survived  his destroyer being sunk near New Guinea in which he was one of only 30 survivors.

I came across the name of a destroyer, the USS Brownson DD-518, which was sunk while covering action at Cape Gloucester, New Guinea on 26 December 1943.

A dive bomber hit it with two bombs causing huge damage.  The article said that 108 of the 300-man crew died.

--GreGen