Rank/Rate	Coxswain
Service Number	337 40 22
Birth Date	July 18, 1922
From	Brooklyn, New York
Decorations	Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship	USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death	October 24, 1944
Location	Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances	Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks	Loren was born in Corning, Arkansas.

Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

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