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U.S.S. Neosho Veteran: Earl Couse
Earl Couse, from San Jose, California, was a Storekeeper Third Class on the U.S.S. Neosho. He was one of 64 men who perished on what I call the "Raft of 68" after it drifted away from the stricken Neosho following the Japanese attack on May 7, 1942. In 2005 one of Earl's relatives sent me these photos of him.
Based on the hat he wore in one of these photos, Earl had apparently served on the ill-fated cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis before transferring to the tanker Neosho. The Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine in July 1945 after it had delivered an atomic bomb to Tinian Island, the bomb that, a few weeks after the sinking of the Indianapolis, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Of the 1,195 crewmen aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis, only 316 men survived the sinking, a fate ironically similar to that of the tanker U.S.S. Neosho in the Coral Sea in 1942. Photos of Earl Couse:
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