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Submarines) United States Navy (Retired) May 17, 1945 - February 2, 2014 On Eternal Patrol Senior Chief Machinist’s Mate (Submarines) United States Navy (Retired) May 17, 1945 - February 2, 2014 Sailor rest your oars, we have the watch!!! 1 OUR CREED: To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments. Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its constitution. UNITED STATES SUBMARINE VETERANS INCORPORTATED PALMETTO BASE NEWSLETTER February 2014 2 Lost Boats 3 Picture of the Month 14 Featured World War II Submarine Commanding Officer of the Month 15 CO’s Stateroom 18 XO’S Stateroom 19 Members 20 Honorary Members 20 Meeting Minutes 21 Base Contacts 22 Birthdays 22 Welcome 22 Binnacle List 22 Quote of the Month 22 Word of the Month 22 Member Profile of the Month 23 Traditions of the Naval Service 27 Dates in U.S. Naval History 28 U.S. Submarine History 32 Submarine Memorials 51 South East Region Convention 54 Monthly Calendar 56 Submarine Trivia 57 Advertising Partners 58 3 USS Barbel (SS-316) Lost on February 4, 1945 with the loss of 81 officers and men on her 3rd war patrol. Based on Japanese records, she was bombed near the southern Lost on: entrance to the Palawan Passage. The day before, she reported she survived 3 depth charge attacks. NavSource.org US Navy Official Photo Class: SS 285 Commissioned: 4/3/1944 Launched: 11/14/1943 Builder: Electric Boat Co (General Dynamics) Length: 312 , Beam: 27 #Officers: 10 , #Enlisted: 71 Fate: Barbel sent a message reporting that she had been attacked three times by enemy aircraft dropping depth charges and would transmit further information on the following night. Barbel was never heard NavSource.org from again. 81 men lost. 4 Crew Listing S1 William Henry Adams RM2 Mack McKennon EM1 Orville Walter Anderson MoMMC Jack McCallum McKenzie RM3 Fred Charles, Jr. Averill GM3 Fred Nixon Meadows EM2 Allen Fraser Bailey MoMM1 Joseph Duarte, Jr. Medeiros MoMM2 William Frederick Becker SM1 Raymond Charles Meldazis S1 John Edward Bodenrader EMC Clarence Ralph Miller S1 John Witte Bogert MoMM2 Warren Herman Mintken SC1 Ralph Irving Boucher BM2 Charles Ambrose Mitchell TM1 Thomas Ray Boyd TM3 Neal Michael Nasser MoMM1 William Bryan, Jr. Brewer EM3 Paul Michael Oddo MoMM1 Frederick Virgial Brown MoMM3 Samuel Okerblum RM1 Kenneth Dale Brown RT1 James Paul Leeland Olsen EMC Maurice Thurman Burress TM2 Donald James Patterson LT(jg) David William Burton MoMM2 Otto Miles, Jr. Peckins LCDR William Mann Butler TM2 Glenn Abraham Pinson MoMM3 Darrell Kentral Carnahan EM2 Robert James Porach TM3 Duane Valdene Christian S1 Morse, Jr. Porter MoMM2 Ned Charles Cook ENS John Paul Pull MoMM2 William Leonard Creasy LCDR (CO) Conde Le Roy Raguet MoMM3 Kenneth Albert Currier TM3 Franklin Reynolds RM3 Bernard Elton Duesler TM2 George Albert Ricketts S1 Martin Peter Dunn S1 Ernest Lynn Ross PhMC John Ralph Dytche FC2 Julian Rudek QM2 Arthur William, Jr. Eaton F1 Lester Robert Sarkady S1 Thomas John Eck S1 Harold Lee Schroeder EM3 Carl Richard Fielding F1 Charles Ray Smith RMC James Everett Garner MoMM2 Ellis Henry Stevens SC3 William Richard Gauthier GM3 William Grinn Stewart LT(jg) Charles George Glotzbach S1 Robert Lester Swank YNC Leon Hardin Goforth MoMM1 Linwood Edgar, Jr. Thompson LCDR (XO) Claude Layton, Jr. Goodman StM1 Nathaniel Thornton SC2 John Joseph Griffin LT(jg) William Milton Tiffany LT Donald Stires Harris TM3 James Toth EM3 Robert O'Brian Kaiser S1 William Norman Ulrich EM1 John Frederick Kelley QM3 Nicholas Jacob VanRingelesteyn LT Edmund Bixby Kneisel EM3 Fred A., Jr. Wallis MoMMC Franklin Breckenridge, Jr. Kohrs StM1 Arthur Junior Wharton F1 William Wellings Krouse F1 Joseph Gail Wheat TM3 Salvatore Joseph Lange TM1 Ferris Washington Wilks QM1 Thomas William, Jr. Lingel S1 James Frederick Mallan EM2 Richard Orville McKean 5 USS Shark I (SS-174) Lost on February 11, 1942 with the loss of 59 officers and men on her 1st Lost on: war patrol. Shark was the 1st US submarine sunk by enemy surface craft in the Pacific. She was most likely sunk by depth charges. US Navy Photo NavSource.org Class: SS 172 Commissioned: 1/25/1936 Launched: 5/21/1935 Builder: Electric Boat Co (General Dynamics) Length: 298 , Beam: 25 #Officers: 5, #Enlisted: 45 Fate: Shark was reported as presumed lost, NavSource.org the victim of unknown causes. 59 men lost 6 Crew Listing MM1 Theodore Allen Bellard F2 Loran Robert Markin TMC Walter Raleigh Blanchard EM2 Rex Edgar McElroy RM1 John Alden Bolton EM2 Kenneth Ernest McKinney S1 Thomas Leo Brannan F2 Francis Robert, Jr. Miller MM1 Grady G., Jr. Byus ENS Arthur Patrick Moran LT Earl William Cassidy SM1 Fred Joseph Morris MM2 John Paul Cooley MM2 Warren Hasting Myer F3 Billy Brant Crawford SM2 Ermin Joseph Pechacek EM1 Albert Edward Croft S1 Avery Evander Perkins EM2 William Thomas Dawson MMC Robert Lee Pettit LT Edwin, Jr. Denby ENS Frank Florestine, Jr. Philabert LT (XO) Roscoe Franklin Dillen, Jr. EMC Walter Edward Pilgram OS1 Paulino Ejaype EM1 Bennie John Polidori EM1 Roland Ashby Estes YN2 Karl Lother Sandmann MM2 Ferdinand Alois Evans MM2 Henry Louis Schmitt TM1 Truman Floyd Evans LCDR (CO) Louis, Jr. Shane OS3 Agapito Fabra EMC John Howell Smith TM1 Fred Howell Farrell TM2 Thayne Charles Smith MM1 Albert David Fruit RM3 Thomas Ponchard Spilman MMC Merrill Ray Gilman S1 Robert Houston Stephens SC1 Pedro Gimenez EM1 Herman Frederick Striegler S1 Lawrence Carlton Glass FC1 Richard Ridley Thew F1 James Andrew Iverson S1 Henry Oran Tubre MMC Romie Lloyd Jeffreys SC1 John Alfred Turoczy F2 James Edward Johnston MM2 Roland Henry Warren TM1 Clifford Earl Jones GM1 James Kenneth White PhM2 Jesse Augustus Lester TM3 John Murry Worsham RM2 William Charles Lidgerding SM2 Charles Robert Yanks TM2 Thomas Phillip Loughlin TM2 Harold Reynold Zeorlin MM1 Arnold Raymond Lund 7 USS Amberjack (SS-219) Lost on February 16, 1943 with the loss of 72 officers and men on her 3rd Lost on: war patrol. Off Rabaul, she was attacked by a Japanese patrol plane, attacked by a torpedo boat and then depth charged by a subchaser. US Navy Official Photo NavSource.org Class: SS 212 Commissioned: 6/19/1942 Launched: 3/6/1942 Builder: Electric Boat Co (General Dynamics) Length: 312 , Beam: 27 #Officers: 6, #Enlisted: 54 Fate: She reported having been forced down on the 13th by two destroyers, and that she had recovered an enemy aviator from the water and taken him prisoner. All further messages to the vessel remained NavSource.org unanswered. 74 men lost. 8 Crew Listing MoMM1 Mervin Wilcox Allmon MoMM1 Francis Paul Kingston RM3 William Alexander, Jr. Baker MoMM1 Victor Joseph Koreyva MoMM2 Paul Sherman Banister S2 Robert Lawrence Lester MM3 Luther Vaughter Barr EM2 Raymond August Levesque S1 Renato Bartoli ENS James Edward Lewellyn PhMC Arthur Castles Beeman, 4-Feb-43 LT(jg) Henry Shippen, Jr. Lord LT Robert Pershing Blauvelt MoMM2 Joseph Benjamin Lucas, Jr. LCDR (CO) John Archibald Bole, Jr. RM2 Marvin Russell Macy FC1 John Frederick Bolze StM2 Arthur Ray Massey SC2 Harold Joseph Brant S1 Ray McDaniel LCDR (XO) Henry Earl Brossy TM1 Robert Andrew McLean S2 Maurice Joseph Brousseau StM1 Wallace Montague EM1 Wilson Noble Buchan TMC Charles Roy Muir TM3 Diego, Jr. Cacciato TM2 Harold Brengle Ogilvie S2 Leland J. D. Caldwell MoMM1 Cleveland Marion Ouzts, Jr. F1 Elmer Ernest Chaffin EM2 Bruce Frank Pavlin LT John Francis Cheney F1 Henry Pisarski TM1 Benjamin Lee Clark S1 John George Rakyta GM2 James Leonard Coleman RM2 James Albert Ranger MoMM2 William Edwin Coultas TM3 Chester Leo Runkowski S1 Edward Shelton Davis MoMM1 Lewis Robert Ryall EM3 Leroy Conrad Davis SC1 Coy Kennith Sallee F2 James DeGroot ENS Daniel Ryan Seidell ENS Arthur Maxon Demler F1 Paul Peter Smorol QM3 Donald Ducharme S1 Elwood Rudolph Spierer TM2 Alton George Harlen Eastman S1 Chester Andrew Springsteen RT1 Ernest Joseph Everett YN1 Francis Tyler St. John F2 George Henry, Jr. Gillard LT(jg) Richard Gans, Jr. Stern MoMM2 Thaddeus Gosciniak TM2 Henry Alton Taylor MoMM2 John Wesley Hamilton MM3 Irby Hinson Thurman EM2 Lloyd Guy Henderson EM2 William Joseph Tobin EM3 Don Laffaette Hiatt TM2 Paul Bertram Trask F1 William Murray Orlo Hill S2 John Harold Ullstrom MoMM2 Vernon Thompson Jackson EM3 Alonzo George Ward EM2 Homer Ernest James F3 Eldon Leroy Wilson SM3 William Lewis Jeter MoMMC Henry Carl Arthur Winquist SMC Thomas Edward Jewell 9 USS Grayback (SS-208) Lost on February 27, 1944 with the loss of 80 officers and men on her 10th war patrol. She appears to have been caught on the surface in the East Lost on: China Sea by a Japanese carrier plane whose bombs made a direct hit. During this patrol she sank 4 ships totaling 21,594 tons and was tied for 11th in the number of ships sunk. US Navy Official Photo NavSource.org Class: SS 198 Commissioned: 6/30/1941 Launched: 1/31/1941 Builder: Electric Boat Co (General Dynamics) Length: 307 , Beam: 27 #Officers: 6, #Enlisted: 54 Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft in East China Sea. All 80 crewmen lost. NavSource.org 10 Crew Listing MoMM1 Stanley Henry Bangert QM2 Albert Hrudka MoMM2 Harold Xen Barbour SM3 Robert Angelo Irizarry SC1 James Edgar Barnett TM2 August Norbert Jackson TM2 Frederick Richard Bell S1 Lee Francis Jacobs EM3 James Wesley Bennett F1 Francis Robert James MoMM1 Robert Philip Blanan TM1 James Acton Jones QM3 Ralph Bloodsworth EM3 John Patrick King MoMM1 Forrest Lyddle Boyer EMC Harry Theodore Knops EM3 James Lester Brandt MoMM2 Walter Allan Koller RM1 William Jack Brasch S1 Raymond Edward LaRiviere RMC Thaddeus Bukowski MoMM3 Leslie Harold Leaf MoMM2 Wilbur Edward Campbell LT(jg) Robert Orval Littlejohn PhM1 Ross Lillard Capshaw TM3 Douglas Henry Norman Lockyer S2 Robert Emmett Carey CDR (PCO) Raymond Leon Mayo MoMM2 Henry Lawrence Case LT(jg) Franklin Hotchkiss McKelvey RM3 James Nick Chotas TM3 Frederick William Herman Meyer MoMM2 Fred Martin Coburn MoMM2 Louis Joseph Meyers SC3 Lee Roy Cox CDR (CO) John Anderson Moore TM3 Marshall Ray Davidson MoMMC William Gerard Nicholson YN2 Vance Edward Davis EM3 James Thomas Northam COX James Ray Dodson TM2 Thomas Francis O'Meara S1 George Ralph, Jr.
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