On Eternal Patrol - USS Grampus (SS-207) (original) (raw)
The following men were lost while serving on USS Grampus (SS-207).
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 Grampus.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | Louis Dixon Ball | Yes | | 2 | John Basel | Yes | | 3 | Walter Kent Wilson Bathgate | Yes | | 4 | Michael Beley, Jr. | Yes | | 5 | John Lewis Benton | Yes | | 6 | Neil Thomas Berresford | Yes | | 7 | Vernon Joseph Biggy | Yes | | 8 | Curtheal Black | Yes | | 9 | Robert Joseph Bohler | Yes | | 10 | Donald William Bowlby | Needed | | 11 | Friedrick Leopold Brunner | Yes | | 12 | Walter Allen Bruns, Jr. | Needed | | 13 | William Elmo Burdette | Needed | | 14 | Kenneth Leroy Chaffin | Yes | | 15 | Thomas Robert Collins | Yes | | 16 | Thomas Lewis Conley | Yes | | 17 | Eugene Field Corder | Needed | | 18 | Richard Ernest Corum | Yes | | 19 | John Rich Craig | Yes | | 20 | Robert Lee Dexter | Yes | | 21 | Jesse Hugh Dunnavant | Yes | | 22 | Orville Franklin Fanning, Jr. | Yes | | 23 | Donald Massey Fenner | Yes | | 24 | Herminio Gonzales | Yes | | 25 | Herbert Curtis Goodrum | Yes | | 26 | Arthur Mac Griffith | Yes | | 27 | Robert Pollock Guiler, III | Yes | | 28 | Wilbur Dale Handy | Yes | | 29 | Edward Paul Haupt, Jr. | Yes | | 30 | Walter Charles Hendry | Yes | | 31 | Hollis Earland Herrin | Yes | | 32 | Michael Patrick Joyce | Yes | | 33 | Sam Kane | Yes | | 34 | Duane John Kilpatrick | Yes | | 35 | Harris Raymond Larson | Yes | | 36 | Vernon Wade Law | Yes | | 37 | William Jennings McClure | Needed | | 38 | Rayhugh George Michael | Yes | | 39 | George Willard Mitchell | Yes | | 40 | Willard Moeller | Yes | | 41 | Joseph Henry Nash | Yes | | 42 | Edward Roger O'Connor | Yes | | 43 | David Edward Olexa | Yes | | 44 | James Wesley O'Neal | Needed | | 45 | Charles Woodrow Patrick | Yes | | 46 | George Francis Phelps | Yes | | 47 | Howard Cooper Pillsbury | Yes | | 48 | Thomas Earl Poyner | Needed | | 49 | Louis Elmore Presley | Yes | | 50 | Verl Monroe Purdom | Yes | | 51 | Leland Hayward Roberts | Yes | | 52 | Chester Eugene Rudd | Yes | | 53 | Robert Vernon Sager | Needed | | 54 | Ivan John Sandell | Yes | | 55 | Alvin Francis Sbisa | Yes | | 56 | William Bernard Schmidt | Yes | | 57 | Francis Donald Shafranski | Yes | | 58 | Marcus Waitus Shepard | Needed | | 59 | Alvin Roger Tagesen | Yes | | 60 | Alvin Westly Tevis | Yes | | 61 | George Lewis Thomas | Yes | | 62 | James Henry Thomas | Yes | | 63 | Robert Theodore Thrasher | Yes | | 64 | Millard Clark Townley | Yes | | 65 | Roger Vance Trego | Yes | | 66 | Louis Elmer Tremmel | Yes | | 67 | Myron Peter Tuttle | Needed | | 68 | Roy Vander Reyden | Yes | | 69 | Grant Albert Vedder | Yes | | 70 | Wendell Maxwell Walters | Yes | | 71 | Norman Eugene Wilson | Needed |
Some sources mistakenly list Wayne Rucker Merrill, LT, USNR, has being lost on Grampus. Records indicate that he, in fact, went on to command USS Batfish (SS-310) from August 21, 1943, to May 14, 1944, and survived the War.
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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Grampus (SS-207)
to the State of California.
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