Rank and Name, Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Fred Chriss Allen Jr.
Unit/Placed, USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.
Fred was born on Nov. 6, 1918 in Georgia.
Father, Fred Chris. Allen.
Mother, Edna Olivia (Gnann) Allen.
Brother, George G. and Albert Henry Allen.
Roger enlisted the in Georgia with service number # 637279.
Fred was KIA when the ship was on an Operation (Teardrop) to chase special equipped (snorkel) U-boats when it’s was torpedoed by the U-546 and sunk on April 24, 1945, Motor Machinist’s Mate First Class Fred Chriss Allen Jr. is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, American Campaign and the WWII Victory Medal.
Fred is buried/mentioned at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan,
New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.
Tablets of the missing.
Fred also has a Memorial Grave at Laurel Hill Lutheran Church Cemetery
Clyo, Effingham County, Georgia, USA.
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Fred served on the USS Frederick C. Davis (Edsall-class destroyer escort). His ship was ordered to guard the United States Atlantic coast from snorkel-equipped type German submarines. It was one of these submarines, U-546, that torpedoed the USS Frederick C. Davis hitting on the port side, forward. Five minutes later, she broke in two, and efforts to preserve the buoyancy of the stern, where the damage was less and the majority of survivors were located, failed. Her survivors abandoned the ship, with a loss of 115 men. They were taken from the water within 3 hours, and other escorts sank her attacker the same day.
German submarine U-546 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat operated by Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg as yard number 367 on 6 August 1942, launched on 17 March 1943 and commissioned on 2 June 1943 under Oberleutnant zur See Paul Just. The U-boat was a member of three wolfpacks.
U-546 was responsible for the last combat sinking of a United States Navy vessel in the Atlantic Theatre, during Operation Teardrop. On 24 April 1945 U-546 sank the destroyer escort USS Frederick C. Davis, but was in turn sunk by combined fire of five other US destroyers. Her captain and most of her crew were rescued by US vessels, and taken to Argentia Naval Station. It was from this crew that the USN eventually learned that no V-1/2 attacks from the U-boats were planned by the Kriegsmarine.
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