 1914 - 1944 (29 years)
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| Name |
Joseph Powers Billett |
| Birth |
22 Mar 1914 |
Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin, USA  [4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
CDC61559DDAB4E9B9550563B477E15D193DD |
| Death |
9 Mar 1944 |
At Sea, North Atlantic Ocean [4, 5] |
| Burial |
9 Mar 1944 |
At Sea, North Atlantic Ocean / Cenotaph at Lakeview Cemetery, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA [3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Person ID |
I10493 |
broderick |
| Last Modified |
7 Dec 2015 |
| Father |
Alfred Billett, Sr., b. 3 Aug 1887 d. 13 Jan 1969 (Age 81 years) |
| Mother |
Ruth Marion Powers, b. 21 Jun 1893, Prob Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin, USA d. 8 Mar 1987, , Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA (Age 93 years) |
| Marriage |
4 Oct 1911 |
Whitewater, Walworth, Wisconsin, USA |
| Family ID |
F3283 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S47] FindAGrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com), Find A Grave Memorial# 112484827 (Reliability: 3).
Joseph P. Billett
Birth: Mar. 22, 1914
Death: Mar. 9, 1944, At Sea
United States Coast Guard WORLD WAR II
Electrician's Mate 2nd Class, Joseph P. Billett MIA/KIA
Hometown: Wisconsin
Service # 249006
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Electrician's Mate Billett appears Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton South Cambridgeshire District Cambridgeshire, England. His memorial Lakeview Cemetery Fort Atkinson Jefferson County Wisconsin is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Burial:
Lakeview Cemetery
Fort Atkinson
Jefferson County
Wisconsin, USA
Plot: S7 L46 G1
Maintained by: John Dowdy
Originally Created by: Jacki Bierma
Record added: Jun 17, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 112484827
See virtual cemetery for USS Leopold at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=vcsr&GSvcid=481634%3C/a
- [S39] See text, Miscellaneous webpages, (See text), http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/leopold.asp (Reliability: 3).
USS Leopold, DE-319
Account of the ship and its loss.
- [S47] FindAGrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com), Find A Grave Memorial# 56287805 (Reliability: 3).
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Birth: unknown
Death: Mar. 9, 1944, At Sea
United States Coast Guard WORLD WAR II
Electrician's Mate 2nd Class, Joseph P. Billett MIA/KIA
Hometown: Wisconsin
Service # 544475
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Electrician's Mate Billett appears Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Cambridgeshire, England. He has a cenotaph memorial Lakeview Cemetery Fort Atkinson Jefferson County Wisconsin his body was never recovered.
USCG Visit the virtual cemetery of USS Leopold
Note: Entered the service from Wisconsin.
Burial:
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Coton
South Cambridgeshire District
Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Tablets of the Missing
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Maintained by: John Dowdy
Originally Created by: CWGC/ABMC
Record added: Aug 06, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 56287805
- [S484] U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963, 1959-1960, Bashford, Leland Mace - Bishop, Philip Marsh, img 3819-3820 (Reliability: 3).
Name: Joseph P Billett
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1914
Death Date: 9 Mar 1944
Cemetery: Lakeview Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Electrician Mate 2d Class
U.S. Coast Guard Res
- [S47] FindAGrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com), Find A Grave Memorial# 112484827 (Reliability: 3).
Joseph P. Billett
Birth: Mar. 22, 1914
Death: Mar. 9, 1944, At Sea
United States Coast Guard WORLD WAR II
Electrician's Mate 2nd Class, Joseph P. Billett MIA/KIA
Hometown: Wisconsin
Service # 249006
Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal W/Star
Captain: Cdr Kenneth C. Phillips, USCG
Ship: USS Leopold (DE 319)Destroyer escort Edsall class
Mission: Anti Sub Convoy CU-16
Loss Date: 9 Mar 1944
Fate: Sunk by U-255 (Erich Harms)
Location: 58° 44'N, 25° 50'W - Grid AK 3862
Complement: 199 officers and men (171 dead and 28 survivors)
Notes on event
On 9 Mar, 1944, the US Coast Guard manned USS Leopold (DE 319) was on her second voyage and escorting the convoy CU-16, when she got an acoustic contact about 400 miles south of Iceland and turned to investigate it. But before the destroyer escort reached the U-boat, she was hit at 22.00 hours by a Gnat from U-255 and was abandoned. The vessel remained afloat, but sank early the next morning. Only 28 survivors were picked up by the sister ship USS Joyce (DE 317).
Electrician's Mate Billett appears Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton South Cambridgeshire District Cambridgeshire, England. His memorial Lakeview Cemetery Fort Atkinson Jefferson County Wisconsin is a cenotaph his body was never recovered.
Burial:
Lakeview Cemetery
Fort Atkinson
Jefferson County
Wisconsin, USA
Plot: S7 L46 G1
Maintained by: John Dowdy
Originally Created by: Jacki Bierma
Record added: Jun 17, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 112484827
- [S491] Ancestry.com, U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945, (Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: United States. Army. Quartermaster General’s Office. Rosters of World War II Dead (all services). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army.
Source Description
This database contains the names of those who died in World War II from all U.S. armed services. Information available includes: name of deceased, rank, religion, race, and name of interment site.), Index: B Img 628 (Reliability: 3).
Name Joseph P Billett
Religion No Record
Disposition Nonrecoverable
Service Branch Coast Guard
Service Number 544475
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