Person:Leon Harper (1)

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Leon Carrol Harper
b.3 Nov 1922 New Mexico
d.10 Nov 1944
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m. 15 Apr 1915
  1. Huey Wilson Harper1916 - 1976
  2. Leon Carrol Harper1922 - 1944
  3. Leo S Harper1922 - 2017
  4. Velma Eugenia Harper1925 - 1972
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Name Leon Carrol Harper
Gender Male
Birth? 3 Nov 1922 New Mexico
Death? 10 Nov 1944
Burial? Grady, Curry, New Mexico, USA

Died in the service of his county at sea. Attached to the Mount Hood. Buried at sea but marker in Grady Cemetery.


USS Mount Hood (AE-11), 1944-1944

USS Mount Hood, a 13910-ton ammunition ship, was built at Wilmington, North Carolina, and converted for Naval service at Norfolk, Virginia. Commissioned in July 1944, she transited the Panama Canal in August and was assigned to the South Pacific area to provide ammunition to the fighting forces. On the morning of 10 November 1944, while she was moored at the Manus Naval Base, Admiralty Islands, Mount Hood's cargo of explosives detonated in a massive blast. The ship was utterly destroyed by the accident, which killed all those on board her. Damage and casualties were also inflicted on ships anchored as far as 2000 yards away. Personnel casualties on Mount Hood and on other vessels totalled 45 known dead, 327 missing and 371 injured.

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