On Eternal Patrol - USS Albacore (SS-218) (original) (raw)
The final resting place of USS Albacore was discovered by Dr. Tamaki Ura of Tokyo University, and the identity of the wreck has been verified by the the Naval History and Heritage Command. See our Albacore Links and Articles page, as well as our Submarine Discoveries page for more information in the discovery of this vessel.
The following men were lost while serving on USS Albacore (SS-218).
Click on a man's name to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right.
For a brief history of the boat, please see The Loss of USS Albacore.
For information on the ships that Albacore sank, please see Albacore Sinkings.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | Walter Henry Barber, Jr. | Yes | | 2 | Kenneth Ripley Baumer | Yes | | 3 | Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr. | Yes | | 4 | Edward Brown Blackmon | Yes | | 5 | William Walter Bower | Yes | | 6 | Allan Rose Brannam | Yes | | 7 | Herbert Hodge Burch | Yes | | 8 | Nicholas John Cado | Yes | | 9 | John Joseph Carano | Yes | | 10 | Charles Lee Carpenter | Yes | | 11 | James Louis Carpenter | Needed | | 12 | Pasquale Charles Carracino | Yes | | 13 | David Stanley Chapman | Yes | | 14 | Douglas Childress, Jr. | Yes | | 15 | Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr. | Yes | | 16 | Perry Aubrey Collom | Yes | | 17 | Audrey Cecil Crayton | Yes | | 18 | Jack Eugene Cugnin | Yes | | 19 | John Wilber Culbertson | Yes | | 20 | Philip Hugh Davis | Yes | | 21 | Ray Ellis Davis* | Yes | | 22 | Fred Wallace Day | Yes | | 23 | Julius Delfonso | Yes | | 24 | James Leroy DeWitt | Yes | | 25 | James Thomas Dunlap | Yes | | 26 | Carl Hillis Eskew | Yes | | 27 | John Francis Fortier, Jr. | Yes | | 28 | Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr. | Yes | | 29 | John Wilfred Gant | Yes | | 30 | John Paul Gennett | Yes | | 31 | William Henry Gibson | Yes | | 32 | John Frederick Gilkeson | Yes | | 33 | Charles Chester Hall | Yes | | 34 | James Kenneth Harrell | Yes | | 35 | Robert Daniel Hill | Yes | | 36 | Allen Don Hudgins | Yes | | 37 | Donald Patrick Hughes | Yes | | 38 | Eugene Edsel Hutchinson | Yes | | 39 | Burton Paul Johnson | Yes | | 40 | Sheridan Patrick Jones | Yes | | 41 | George Kaplafka | Yes | | 42 | Nelson Kelley, Jr. | Yes | | 43 | Morris Keith Kincaid | Yes | | 44 | Victor Edward Kinon | Yes | | 45 | Joseph Mike Krizanek | Yes | | 46 | Arthur Star Kruger | Yes | | 47 | Walter Emery Lang, Jr. | Yes | | 48 | Jack Allen Little | Yes | | 49 | Kenneth Walter Manful | Yes | | 50 | Patrick Kennyless McKenna | Yes | | 51 | Willie Alexander McNeill | Needed | | 52 | Joseph Norfleet Mercer | Yes | | 53 | Leonard David Moss | Yes | | 54 | Richard Joseph Naudack | Yes | | 55 | Encarnacion Nevarez | Yes | | 56 | Joseph Hayes Northam | Yes | | 57 | Frank Robert Nystrom | Yes | | 58 | Robert James O'Brien | Yes | | 59 | Elmer Harold Peterson | Yes | | 60 | Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr. | Yes | | 61 | James Teel Porter | Yes | | 62 | Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr. | Yes | | 63 | Francis Albert Riley | Yes | | 64 | Hugh Raynor Rimmer | Yes | | 65 | A. B. Roberts | Yes | | 66 | James Ernest Rowe | Yes | | 67 | Philip Shoenthal | Yes | | 68 | George Maurice Sisk | Yes | | 69 | Joe Lewis Spratt | Yes | | 70 | Harold William St. Clair | Yes | | 71 | Arthur Lemmie Stanton | Yes | | 72 | Robert Joseph Starace | Yes | | 73 | John Henry Stephenson | Yes | | 74 | Maurice Crooks Strattan | Yes | | 75 | Earl Richard Tanner | Yes | | 76 | William George Tesser | Yes | | 77 | Paul Raymond Tomich | Yes | | 78 | Charles Edward Traynor | Yes | | 79 | Theodore Taylor Walker | Yes | | 80 | Elmer Weisenfluh | Yes | | 81 | James Donald Welch | Yes | | 82 | Richard Albert West | Yes | | 83 | Wesley Joseph Willans | Yes | | 84 | Leslie Allan Wilmott | Yes | | 85 | David Robert Wood | Yes |
In some sources, Sylvester Martin Wright**,** Steward's Mate, Second Class, is listed as being lost with his shipmates. Records in the National Archives show that he was transferred off the boat on October 28, 1944, immediately before she was lost. He is not listed in NARA, Navy Casualty, DPAA, ABMC, nor on the COMSUBPAC page. Source: individual personnel files, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, and muster rolls of USS Albacore. He served on LST-221 after the War. Origin of discrepancy (86) found in Sub Losses (1946 and 1963, although he is not listed in 1949) and in Christley, who mistakenly included Sylvester M(artin) Wright.
*Previously, this page listed Roy Edgar Davis as an Albacore crew member. Research has shown that Ray Ellis Davis was the man who was lost with his shipmates on Albacore.
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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Albacore (SS-218) to the State of Oregon.
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