“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of pioneer cemeteries and
historic sites built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just four years,
the quest has grown to over six hundred caches hidden in Indiana,
Ohio and Michigan and Ontario and the hiders have grown to over
thirty cacher teams, most of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 1,000 cacher teams had
logged over 25,000 finds when we stopped counting.
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Photos by Lead Dog
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#586
"LOST AT SEA"
This quest will take you back to Fairview
cemetery in Chester Township, Wabash County Indiana, south of
Servia.
This cache honors a Navy Chief Machinist
Mate who gave all in World War II.
USS COOPER
USS Cooper (DD-695), a Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the
only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Elmer Glenn
Cooper, a naval aviator who died in a seaplane accident in 1938.
The Cooper was launched 9 February 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. Elmer G. Cooper; and
commissioned 27 March 1944, Commander J. W. Schmidt in command.
Cooper cleared Boston 23 July 1944 for Pearl Harbor arriving 4
September. After operational training, she sailed 23 October for
Ulithi, arriving 5 November, and put to sea at once to screen
carriers in air attacks on Luzon, Ormoc Bay, and Manila Bay until
19 November.
After repairs at Ulithi, she entered San Pedro Bay, Philippines,
29 November and joined in patrols in Leyte Gulf until 2 December,
when she sailed with Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) and Moale (DD-693) to
destroy shipping in Japanese-held Ormoc Bay. Here the ships engaged
two small enemy destroyers and numerous small craft. At about 0013
on 3 December, Cooper was torpedoed by the Japanese destroyer
Take.
Reports state that she suffered an explosion on her starboard
side, then it broke in two, and sank within a minute. The presence
of enemy forces prevented rescue of survivors until about 1400,
when "Black Cat" airplanes were able to save 168 of Cooper's crew.
Lost were 191. A documentary TV film on the Cooper was produced by
Bigfoot Entertainment and made its debut in mid-2006. It featured
deep-sea diver Rob Lalumiere and survivors of the Cooper sinking.
For further information, see Battle of Ormoc Bay.
Cooper was awarded one battle star for World War II service.
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USS
COOPER
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT
INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!!
The cache container is a
plastic Spice jar. BYOP. You MUST sign the log to claim a
Smilie. If you cache at night, or don't sign the log, or reveal
the additional hint in your log, or don't fulfill any additional
requirements, your find log will be deleted without notice...If you
think these terms to be unfair, don't bother to hunt this cache.
The cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US
flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be
respectful of our pioneer dead and our beloved Veterans, and cache
in, trash out. xxx!
None genuine without this official SixDogTeam
seal. Photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2006 by RikSu Outfitters,
unless otherwise noted.
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Happy Hunting!!