The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-20
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were elther blown Into the sea, or their bodies were in Q flooded com parttnent, behind c bulkhead closed to shut out the arruShing waters after the explosion.
 For the first time the navy pinned responsibility for the incident on the Nazs. Its official statement said:
 "T'te navy department today ans flounced that the U. s. g. Kearny, destroyer attacked by . submarine, undoubtedly German, early Friday morning, has reached port.
 Dispatches received from the ship report ii members of the crew missing, one man critically injured, one man seriously injured and eight men who received minor injuries, lut who are in no danger"
 The announcement then gave the names of the missing and seriously injured and concluded:
 "The men seriously and critically injured have been transfered to the hospital.
 '"The next of kin Of the missing and the two critically and seriously injured have been notified by the navy department"
 No Details Of Damage
 Like the coihmunique revealing the attack, this one gave no detailS on the destroyer,s damage, how the incident occurred or where the dAlrls aged ship had docked. Those dc. tails, aS well aS the fate of the i1iss sing men, probably will be clarified 1n subsequent reports by Lieut.. Cmrdr. A. L. Danis, Washington, D. O., commander os..the Kearny since 1t was commissioned in 1o40.
 The Kearny Is a low-slung, Streamlined, two stacker armed with five 6-inch guns, aTti.aircraft guns, depth charges and torpedo tubes. She was laid down in 1899 and com. pleted the following year. She has c displacement of 1880 tons, is 34l feet long and has Q 36 foot beam.
 Some experts gpeculated that the Kearny may have reached port in Halifax, Nova Scotia, or along our own northeastern seaboard where adequate repair facilities are avail- able. They based this on the fact that the destroyer probably had had time, even if compelled to reduce speed, to make such Q long trip after being hit early Friday.
 Fourth Time Of Attack
 Although the Kearny is the first warship to be torpedoed since the war began, 1t Is ti1e fourth time that an American naval ship has been involved in an incident" The oth- CTS are:
 Secretary of Navy Knox told a congressional committee that an uIl- Identified U. g. warship in the North Atlantic had heard gubnlas rine In its doctors and released depth charges. Results unknown.
 Sept. {, 104i-U. S. 6. Destroyer Greer, warned of submarine by Britt ish plane, followed the submarine and released 1S depth charges after submarine had launched two torpe. does that missed. Germany said Greer attacked first. The subma- rine apparently escaped.
 Sept. 1o4i-Navy announced on Oct. il that in September a coast guard cutter had seized and dis posed of" a Nazi wireless station in Greenland operated by an agent of the German destapo and two Nor. wegIans. Twenty men and one wo. man were brought to Boston in c 6O-ton Norwegian trawler which the Germans had sent to Greenland to set up the station.
 Casualty List
 Washington, Oct. 20-(UP)-The casualty list of the destroyer U. 8. s. Kearny as announced by the navy: Missing
 Floyd Andrew Camp, ships cook, first class: National City, Calif., Lloyd Dalton Lafleur, pharmacists mate, second class: Beaumont, Tex. Luther Asle Curtis, water tender, first class; wilmington, N. c. Her. man August 0. Gateway, water ten- der, first class; Troy, N. Y. Louis | IDobnikar, water tender, second class, Cleveland. o. Iral william StoltZ, Fireman, first class; Spangler, Pa. Sidney Gerald Larriviere, fireman, first class; Lafayette, La. George Alexander Calvert, fireman. first class; Gillespie, Ill. Russell Bur- dick Wade, fireman, first class; Houston, Ala. Harry Tull Young machinist's mate, second class; Reader, Ark. Dwight Floyd Pyle, seaman, second class; Bainbridge. 0a.
 Critically Injured
 Samuel R. Kurtz, torpedoman, third class: Erie, Pa.
 Seriously Injured
 Leonard Frontakowski, chief boatswain's mate; Norfolk, va.
 Minor Injuries
 Eiglak Yaen wl1oGa names the navy