Hoover, Dale Lloyd
Navy Fireman

Dale Lloyd Hoover, age 20, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minnehaha county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Tuesday, September 26, 1950

Death details: On September 26, 1950, the USS Brush (DD 745) was positioned off the coast of North Korea, shelling enemy targets near Tanchon. During this operation, the Brush struck an enemy underwater mine, and thirteen men were lost in the resulting explosion.

Fireman Dale Lloyd Hoover, who joined the U.S. Navy from South Dakota, was serving aboard the Brush on September 26, 1950. He was blown overboard and killed in the explosion, and his remains have not been recovered. Today, Fireman Hoover is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Based on all information available, DPAA assessed the individual’s case to be in the analytical category of Non-recoverable.

Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National

Source: National Archives, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1970)