Rank / Rating: PFC-Private First Class Marines
Burial at Sea
Loren was one of the twenty-eight crew members picked up and identified by USS Helm between Sunday August 5, 1945 to Monday August 6, 1945.
It not being possible to bring Loren aboard for the official Burial at Sea Ceremony he was reverently placed in a sea bag, weighted with two 5" shells and "committed to the deep" by his fellow seamen.
