World War II Honoree

Frederick Peter Powell

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Denver, Colorado

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Baker Second Class. He was inducted into the United States Navy September 7, 1942 at Denver, Colorado. Served as a Baker aboard the USS Twiggs Destroyer, DD-591. On March 21, 1945 the Destroyer and her shipmates, along with an armada of U.S. Battleships, Cruisers, and other warships arrived off shore of Okinawa in support of the impeding invasion. The Destroyer and crew were assigned to a radar picket station off-shore of Okinawa April 15, 1945 in support of the impending invasion. Reported missing in action, lost at sea June 16, 1945 after an Imperial Japanese Naval Pilot launched a torpedo, striking the Twiggs on her port side, exploding in the number two ammunition storage lockers; she sank with an hour. His name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Honolulu National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, ‘Punchbowl’ Hawaii. In his Memory and Honor, a cenotaph memorial has been placed at the Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.