On Eternal Patrol - USS Amberjack (SS-219) (original) (raw)
The following men were lost while serving on USS Amberjack (SS-219).
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 Amberjack.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | Mervin Wilcox Allmon | Yes | | 2 | William Alexander Baker, Jr. | Yes | | 3 | Paul Sherman Banister | Yes | | 4 | Luther Vaughter Barr | Yes | | 5 | Renato Bartoli | Needed | | 6 | Arthur Castles Beeman* | Yes | | 7 | Robert Pershing Blauvelt | Yes | | 8 | John Archibald Bole, Jr. | Yes | | 9 | John Frederick Bolze | Needed | | 10 | Harold Joseph Brant | Yes | | 11 | Henry Earl Brossy | Yes | | 12 | Maurice Joseph Brousseau | Yes | | 13 | Wilson Noble Buchan | Needed | | 14 | Diego Cacciato, Jr. | Yes | | 15 | Leland J. D. Caldwell | Needed | | 16 | Elmer Ernest Chaffin | Yes | | 17 | John Francis Cheney | Yes | | 18 | Benjamin Lee Clark | Yes | | 19 | James Leonard Coleman | Yes | | 20 | William Edwin Coultas | Yes | | 21 | Edward Shelton Davis | Needed | | 22 | LeRoy Conrad Davis | Yes | | 23 | James DeGroot | Yes | | 24 | Arthur Maxon Demler | Yes | | 25 | Donald Ducharme | Yes | | 26 | Alton George Harlen Eastman | Yes | | 27 | Ernest Joseph Everett | Needed | | 28 | George Henry Gillard, Jr. | Yes | | 29 | Thaddeus Gosciniak | Yes | | 30 | John Wesley Hamilton | Yes | | 31 | Lloyd Guy Henderson | Needed | | 32 | Don Laffaette Hiatt | Yes | | 33 | William Murray Orlo Hill | Yes | | 34 | Vernon Thompson Jackson | Needed | | 35 | Homer Ernest James | Yes | | 36 | William Lewis Jeter | Needed | | 37 | Thomas Edward Jewell | Yes | | 38 | Francis Paul Kingston | Yes | | 39 | Victor Joseph Koreyva | Yes | | 40 | Robert Lawrence Lester | Yes | | 41 | Raymond August Levesque | Yes | | 42 | James Edward Lewellyn | Yes | | 43 | Henry Shippen Lord, Jr. | Yes | | 44 | Joseph Benjamin Lucas, Jr. | Yes | | 45 | Marvin Russell Macy | Yes | | 46 | Arthur Ray Massey | Yes | | 47 | Ray McDaniel | Needed | | 48 | Robert Andrew McLean | Yes | | 49 | Wallace Montague, Jr. | Needed | | 50 | Charles Roy Muir | Yes | | 51 | Harold Brengle Ogilvie | Yes | | 52 | Cleveland Marion Ouzts, Jr. | Yes | | 53 | Bruce Frank Pavlin | Yes | | 54 | Henry Pisarski | Yes | | 55 | John George Rakyta | Yes | | 56 | James Albert Ranger | Yes | | 57 | Chester Leo Runkowski | Yes | | 58 | Lewis Robert Ryall | Yes | | 59 | Coy Kennith Sallee | Yes | | 60 | Daniel Ryan Seidell | Yes | | 61 | Paul Peter Smorol | Yes | | 62 | Elwood Rudolph Spierer | Needed | | 63 | Chester Andrew Springsteen | Yes | | 64 | Francis Tyler St. John | Yes | | 65 | Richard Gans Stern, Jr. | Yes | | 66 | Henry Alton Taylor | Yes | | 67 | Irby Hinson Thurman | Yes | | 68 | William Joseph Tobin | Yes | | 69 | Paul Bertram Trask | Yes | | 70 | John Harold Ullstrom | Yes | | 71 | Alonzo George Ward | Yes | | 72 | Eldon Leroy Wilson | Yes | | 73 | Henry Carl Arthur Winquist | Yes |
*Killed by returning gunfire during battle surface while going to the aid of an injured officer, February 4, 1943.
Note: Raymond J. Chrzan, who had previously been listed here, survived the War. Please see our "Discrepancies in Numbers of Lost Submariners" page for further information.
How to Submit Photos and Information
The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Amberjack (SS-219)
to the State of South Carolina.
Submarines Lost in World War II