Date12-Oct-1942
TypeSea Disaster
CountrySOLOMON ISLANDS
LocationCape Esperance (near Savo Islands)
ActivityHis ship, the US destroyer Duncan DD 485, had been sunk by crossfire from Japanese warships. He was wearing a kapok lifejacket & using 2 aluminum powder tins for floatation
InjuryFoot, hand, elbow & calf lacerated & abraded, thigh gashed
VictimLieutenant Commander Herbert Richard Kabat, Male, 25 years old
SourceW. L. Jones, M.D.; Saturday Evening Post; V.M. Coppleson (1958), p.199
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