An item reported that according to a Japanese broadcast 10 British and American army and naval officers arrived in a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan. One of them was the executive officer of the USS Pope.(1) The fate of that ship was unknown since she escorted the British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter(2) shortly after the battle of the Java Sea in February 1942. If the broadcast was not false there seemed to be some survivors of the USS Pope.
Notes
1. Part of Clemson-class destroyers preceded by Wickes-class succeeded by Farragut-class, laid down with yard number 491 by William Cramp&Sons, Philadelphia, USA on 9 September 1919, launched on 23 March 1920, commissioned on 27 October 1920, sunk on 1 March 1942 and stricken on 8 May 1942.
2. Destroyed in the Second Battle of the Java Sea on 1 March 1942, she belonged to the ill-fated Allied ABDA-squadron. Of the York-class heavy cruisers with as sister ship York, preceded by the County-class. Building ordered on 15 March 1928, laid down at the Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, England on 1 August 1928, launched on 18 July 1929, commissioned on 27 July 1931, refitted in 1932, participated in the Battle of the River Plate against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 1939.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 238 dated 5 August 1942.
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