Loss of 2nd Anti-Submarine Squadron on 4 September 1943

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Thanks a lot Leendert. By the way I did not know this source of data and it may be useful in other cases I am searching. Best regards

Just found confirmation of something I searched for same day, an explosion that killed 17 or 18 (the latter probably includes one DOW the next day) at Munda. I had the point of view of VMTB-233 (and the five killed for this unit), and two more casualties identified by name, but found nothing more on fold3. The same query on the above webiste allows me to find another report giving more details: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78295317?objectPage=46

And some clicks later, I found the muster roll for CASU-14, that probably has most of the casualties in the explosion (I found 3 in the first pages, will check later): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/190074623?objectPage=89. This muster is not available in fold3 AFAIK.

By the way, CASU-14 arrived at Munda in later August IIRC, and I found reports that airmen complained of the bad service provided by the unit. I guess that losing tens of members so early after their arrival did not help.

Thanks again