On Eternal Patrol - USS Dorado (SS-248) (original) (raw)
The following men were lost while serving on USS Dorado (SS-248). Note that some sources fail to list Thomas Allen Williams, who was lost with his shipmates when Dorado was sunk in October, 1943.
Please note that the award of the Purple Heart for the men lost on this boat is not listed in most sources. However, we have documentary proof that at least two Dorado men, Richard Holbrook Becker and Vernon Eugene Gardner, were awarded the medal for the sacrifice of their lives on this vessel.
We are looking into ways to have all men lost on Dorado recognized with the award of the Purple Heart. Please contact us if you would like to assist in this effort.
Please see the recently released YouTube documentary, Details Plain Language: The Mystery and Loss of Submarine USS Dorado, for further explination of the probable cause of the loss of the boat_._
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 Dorado.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | | 1 | Louis James Abruzzio | Yes | | 2 | Theodore Thomas Addy | Yes | | 3 | Virgil James Albright | Yes | | 4 | Thomas Alloway | Yes | | 5 | Paul Duval Aman | Yes | | 6 | Bruce Louie Anthony | Yes | | 7 | William LeRoy Austin | Yes | | 8 | August Frederick Ballman | Yes | | 9 | Richard Holbrook Becker* | Yes | | 10 | John Boyd | Yes | | 11 | Fred Lee Brubeck | Yes | | 12 | James Joseph Burnett | Yes | | 13 | David Lee Burrell | Yes | | 14 | Isaac Cabase | Yes | | 15 | Leonard Mayfield Chandler | Yes | | 16 | Laverne David Cilley | Yes | | 17 | John Coelho | Yes | | 18 | Thomas Cosaftes | Yes | | 19 | Dominick Mike Cristello | Yes | | 20 | Donald John Davenport | Yes | | 21 | Herbert Marshall Dix | Yes | | 22 | Edwin Herman Eberl | Yes | | 23 | Carl Elbert Fackrell | Yes | | 24 | Joseph Bennie Fisher | Yes | | 25 | Henry Clay Florea, Jr. | Yes | | 26 | John Weaver Fry | Yes | | 27 | Vernon Eugene Gardner* | Yes | | 28 | Arthur Albert Gendreau, Jr. | Yes | | 29 | Dudley Glass, Jr. | Yes | | 30 | Bert Bruce Greenlee | Yes | | 31 | Felix Ferdinando Guida | Yes | | 32 | Robert Edward Harlock | Yes | | 33 | Dewitt Harris | Yes | | 34 | Robert Louis Hauber | Yes | | 35 | Clarence Cornelius Hinton | Yes | | 36 | George Torborg Hollrock | Yes | | 37 | Allan Vincent Huffmon | Yes | | 38 | Robert Warren Irwin | Yes | | 39 | John Kapral | Yes | | 40 | Robert Leroy Klink | Yes | | 41 | Clarence Lister Lemper | Yes | | 42 | Guy William Liggett | Yes | | 43 | Lawrence Edward Lozaw | Yes | | 44 | Maurice Edward Lynch | Yes | | 45 | Joseph Blaze Marsh | Yes | | 46 | Charles William Mazari | Yes | | 47 | Harold Dennis McBroome | Yes | | 48 | Henry Eugene McCall | Yes | | 49 | Francis Maurice McGrath | Yes | | 50 | Elmer Wilhelm Nelson | Yes | | 51 | Richard Arthur Niles | Yes | | 52 | Francis Benjamin Norman | Yes | | 53 | Hyman Alvin Nowacki | Yes | | 54 | Paul Frederick O'Dell | Yes | | 55 | Charles Newton Ohrt, Jr. | Yes | | 56 | Albert Joseph Otto | Yes | | 57 | Joseph Leo Cyril Perrault | Yes | | 58 | Hurley Lavern Pope | Yes | | 59 | Ellsworth Clay Rhode | Yes | | 60 | Pellam Clayton Routon | Yes | | 61 | Lloyd Willerd Sanders | Yes | | 62 | Alfred August Schafer, Jr. | Yes | | 63 | Earle Caffrey Schneider | Yes | | 64 | Robert Kenneth Singscheimer | Yes | | 65 | Boyd Dee Smith | Yes | | 66 | Wilburn Ostean Speight | Yes | | 67 | Robert Sidney Talley | Yes | | 68 | Davis Spencer Thompson | Yes | | 69 | Oliver Prewitt Tipton | Yes | | 70 | Joseph Vernarsky | Yes | | 71 | George Andrew Wagner, Jr. | Yes | | 72 | Paul Bertrand White, Jr. | Yes | | 73 | Bernard Thomas Williams | Yes | | 74 | Thomas Allen Williams | Yes | | 75 | Lester Clayton Wilmott | Yes | | 76 | Morris Henry Wilson | Yes | | 77 | Alvin Lewis Windfeldt | Yes |
*Award of the Purple Heart confirmed in individual personnel files in the National Archives.
Please also see this website on the boat: USS Dorado (SS-248)
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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Dorado (SS-248)
to the State of Kansas.
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