Okinawa | Unspecified | Unspecified

Incident Details:

year: 1945
location: Unspecified
area: Unspecified
country: Okinawa
fatality: non-fatal
species: unknown
victim: Lowell J. Bemis
gender: M
age: 20
injury: Laceration to arm
time:
species detail:
source: Mid-Pacific Stars & Stripes 10-22-1945
species: unknown shark
date: 19-Sep-45
activity: American minesweeper USS YMS-472 foundered in a typhoon - swimming to shore

Reconstruction of the Shark Attack

In the year 1945 on the date reported as 19-Sep-45 - Lowell J. Bemis, a male aged 20 was American minesweeper USS YMS-472 foundered in a typhoon - swimming to shore near Unspecified. An unknown shark was reported to have attacked Lowell J. Bemis. The attack was non-fatal (Laceration to arm)