On Eternal Patrol - USS Argonaut (SS-166) (original) (raw)
The following men were lost while serving on USS Argonaut (APS-1), or (SS-166). Scroll down to see the listing of Marine Raiders lost on the Makin Island raid.
Please note that, contrary to information published in many sources, former Argonaut crew membersJose DeGuzman, Mario Ramos, Jr., and Hubert R. Widener all survived the War.
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 Argonaut.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | Charles Henry Alexander | Yes | | 2 | Robert Dean Alexander | Yes | | 3 | Robert Walker Allen | Yes | | 4 | Charles Hugh Baker | Yes | | 5 | Robert Norman Ball | Yes | | 6 | Thomas Walter Beecham | Yes | | 7 | Marcelino Taclob Bergado | Yes | | 8 | John Ben Bodak | Yes | | 9 | Frank Howard Bowers | Yes | | 10 | Gordon Albert Bowker | Yes | | 11 | Robert Henry Boyt | Yes | | 12 | Malcolm Marion Brooks | Needed | | 13 | Milton Victor Brown | Yes | | 14 | Crawford Keller Campbell | Yes | | 15 | Stanley Herbert Carlisle | Yes | | 16 | Walter Arnoldus Cartmell | Needed | | 17 | Charles Joseph Cerrinack | Yes | | 18 | Ivan Bush Corbin | Yes | | 19 | Alfred Cox | Needed | | 20 | Rodney Charles Davidson | Yes | | 21 | Warren Walter Davis | Yes | | 22 | Donald Henry Dischner | Yes | | 23 | John Leak Everett, Jr. | Yes | | 24 | Dario Frank Facchini | Yes | | 25 | John Ferentz | Yes | | 26 | Charles Venable Ferguson | Yes | | 27 | George William Finley | Yes | | 28 | William Daniel Fitzgerald | Yes | | 29 | John Gasko | Yes | | 30 | John Adam Gilliland, Jr. | Yes | | 31 | Ray Lester Goshorn | Yes | | 32 | Virgil Eugene Hall | Yes | | 33 | Edward John Hansen | Yes | | 34 | Robert Norris Harbison | Yes | | 35 | Ernest Hutton Harrison | Yes | | 36 | Dennis Russell Hartman | Yes | | 37 | Francis Marion Hogg | Yes | | 38 | Billy John Hudson | Yes | | 39 | Ray Hunter | Yes | | 40 | George Stanley Jenkins, Sr. | Yes | | 41 | Gerald Kaplan | Yes | | 42 | Frederick Graybill Kaylor | Yes | | 43 | James Arthur Kelley | Yes | | 44 | Harold Kessinger | Yes | | 45 | Arthur Lanham Knapp | Yes | | 46 | George Howard Kocis | Yes | | 47 | Frank Manley Koller | Yes | | 48 | Guy Edwin Lauder | Yes | | 49 | George Elmer Lay | Yes | | 50 | Charles Cecil Leaverton | Yes | | 51 | Kenneth Richard Legler | Yes | | 52 | Lawrence Dewain Leland | Yes | | 53 | Frederick Henderson Lewis | Yes | | 54 | Harold Luke Logan | Yes | | 55 | George Alvin Lokey | Yes | | 56 | Zody Leyritana Los Banes | Needed | | 57 | Richard Martin Maloney, Jr. | Yes | | 58 | Paulino Pascual Martin | Needed | | 59 | Elmo McClelland | Yes | | 60 | Robert Henry Miller | Yes | | 61 | Walter Fred Miller, Jr. | Yes | | 62 | Blaine Gilmore Miltner | Yes | | 63 | Thomas Moore Morgan | Yes | | 64 | William Hugh Myers, Jr. | Yes | | 65 | Thomas Anthony Narrow, Jr. | Yes | | 66 | Roland Franklin Nichols | Yes | | 67 | Percy James Olds | Yes | | 68 | Billie Butler Parker | Yes | | 69 | Theodore Parker | Yes | | 70 | Rolla Parsons, Jr. | Yes | | 71 | James Wallace Peevey | Yes | | 72 | John Reeves Pierce | Yes | | 73 | Wayne Louis Pritchard | Yes | | 74 | Algerd John Rasimas | Yes | | 75 | Paul Byron Remillard | Needed | | 76 | Robert Neal Robertson | Yes | | 77 | Harold Lomani Rolland | Yes | | 78 | Gerald Mann Rollins | Yes | | 79 | Lupe Romero | Yes | | 80 | Marion Francis Roup | Yes | | 81 | James B. Rule | Yes | | 82 | Fred Edsal Schempp | Yes | | 83 | Walter Francis Seidman | Yes | | 84 | Hugo Joseph Serafini | Yes | | 85 | David Carrol Sheeks | Yes | | 86 | Elwin William Sigler | Yes | | 87 | Forrest White Simoneau | Yes | | 88 | Thomas Luther Smith | Yes | | 89 | John Robert Spaeth | Yes | | 90 | Jason Stanley | Yes | | 91 | Willie David Thomas | Yes | | 92 | Henry John Tinling | Yes | | 93 | Julius Vesmas | Yes | | 94 | William Edward Vierling | Yes | | 95 | Earle Jentoft Wagner | Yes | | 96 | William George Wehner | Yes | | 97 | Clifford Charles White, Jr. | Yes | | 98 | Thomas Allen White | Yes | | 99 | Roy Windfred Williams | Yes | | 100 | William Denman Winsor | Yes | | 101 | Robert Donald Wylie | Yes | | 102 | Edward Lawrence Zintz | Yes |
Official records for Argonaut crew members Jose DeGuzman, Mario Ramos, Jr., and Hubert R. Widener clearly indicate that they were not aboard the vessel when she was lost. All three served on other submarines after being transferred off USS Argonaut and survived the War. See our "Discrepancies in Numbers of Lost Submariners" page for further information.
Additionally, one Argonaut man, Brewer Bernard Ballard, died in an accident in 1937.
The following men were Marine Raiders who were carried aboard the submarines USS Argonaut and USS Nautilus (SS-168), and who gave their lives in the raid on Makin Island.
| 1 | Robert V. Allard* | Yes |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | James W. Beecher* | Yes |
| 3 | Vernon Leroy Castle | Yes |
| 4 | Dallas Harry Cook* | Yes |
| 5 | Richard E. Davis* | Yes |
| 6 | I. B. Earles | Yes |
| 7 | William Albert Gallagher | Yes |
| 8 | Daniel Albert Gaston | Yes |
| 9 | Joseph Gifford* | Yes |
| 10 | Ashley Warren Hicks | Yes |
| 11 | Gerald Price Holtom | Yes |
| 12 | Harris Jonathon Johnson | Yes |
| 13 | John Irvin Kerns* | Yes |
| 14 | Kenneth Kirk Kunkle | Yes |
| 15 | Carlyle Oscar Larson | Yes |
| 16 | Edward Maciejewski | Yes |
| 17 | Alden Curtis Mattison* | Yes |
| 18 | Robert Benton Maulding | Yes |
| 19 | Kenneth Maurice Montgomery | Yes |
| 20 | Norman Warren Mortensen | Yes |
| 21 | Franklin Merrill Nodland | Yes |
| 22 | Richard N. Olbert* | Yes |
| 23 | William E. Pallesen* | Yes |
| 24 | Robert Brooks Pearson | Yes |
| 25 | Donald R. A. Roberton* | Yes |
| 26 | Charles Austin Selby | Yes |
| 27 | Cletus Smith* | Yes |
| 28 | Clyde A. Thomason | Yes |
| 29 | John Eugene Vandenberg | Yes |
| 30 | Mason Opel Yarbrough | Yes |
*Men with personal memorial pages on the Missing Marines website (external link)
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