Ships
- USS Pope (DD-225) Captain from 10 February 1941 · In command when she was lost, 1 March 1942. He survived.
Welford Charles Blinn had Pope from 10 February 1941. His report of the Balikpapan attack, dated 25 January 1942, is signed W. C. Blinn, commanding officer. Richard Nott Antrim signed it as executive officer. Antrim had been officer in charge only from 23 January to 10 February 1941. He was not her captain that night.
On 24 January she fired twelve torpedoes and nineteen rounds of 4-inch. The report says she believed she hit three ships. That is her claim. The sinkings in the anchorage are not credited to one ship. She was not sunk that night.
On 1 March 1942, in the Java Sea, aircraft attacked her after Exeter and Encounter were lost. NavSource says gunfire from Japanese warships and aircraft. DANFS says dive-bombers. Other accounts add cruiser gunfire after the crew left. The loss is not credited to one plane or one ship. One man was killed. The Japanese destroyer Inazuma took the survivors off. Twenty-seven of her men died later as prisoners. Blinn survived. NavSource ends his command on the day she sank.