On Eternal Patrol - USS Growler (SS-215) (original) (raw)
The following men were lost while serving on USS Growler (SS-215).
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 Growler.
| | Name | Photo | | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | 1 | John Henry Abel | Yes | | 2 | Howard Warren Archer | Needed | | 3 | Hermas Conrad Baker | Yes | | 4 | Troy Martin Beatty | Yes | | 5 | William Vincent Bergfeld | Yes | | 6 | Harold Harvey Blackston | Yes | | 7 | William Dawson Booker | Yes | | 8 | Charles Russell Boone | Yes | | 9 | Robert Stuart Bridge | Yes | | 10 | William Kenneth Carr | Yes | | 11 | Robert Louis Chamblin, Jr. | Yes | | 12 | LaVerne Charles Clark | Yes | | 13 | Bennie Cleveland | Yes | | 14 | Gordon Byxbe Dallman | Yes | | 15 | John Archibald Darby | Yes | | 16 | Gilbert Pryor Daughtrey | Yes | | 17 | Ferdinand Edison Dawson | Yes | | 18 | Alexander Louis Durand, Jr. | Yes | | 19 | Roland DeWitt Erikson | Yes | | 20 | Alexander Ferrario | Yes | | 21 | Willie Flippens | Needed | | 22 | Clarence Edwan Fredman, Jr. | Yes | | 23 | Albert Joseph Fryer | Yes | | 24 | Harry Alexander George | Yes | | 25 | Howard Walter Gilmore* | Yes | | 26 | Walter Madden Gregory | Yes | | 27 | Robert Edward Hakanson | Yes | | 28 | Robert Harris | Yes | | 29 | Harry Frank Heald | Yes | | 30 | Warren Edmund Hedrick | Yes | | 31 | William Christopher Hickey, Jr. | Yes | | 32 | Ralph Edwin Hope | Yes | | 33 | Albert Michael Jacobs | Yes | | 34 | Euin Melborn Jenes** | Yes | | 35 | Gordon Ward Jewett | Yes | | 36 | Lloyd Stanley Johnson | Yes | | 37 | Harry Anthony Kaczmarek | Yes | | 38 | Wilbert Fletcher Kelley* | Yes | | 39 | Donald Joseph Kuba | Yes | | 40 | Roy Stuart Laderman | Needed | | 41 | Robert Ephraim Lane, Jr. | Yes | | 42 | Melvin Putman Leveille | Yes | | 43 | Ernest Peter Lorio | Needed | | 44 | Garrett Lynch, Jr. | Yes | | 45 | John Hobert Maddux | Yes | | 46 | Lloyd Bronzia Maness | Yes | | 47 | Wallace Seth Manning | Yes | | 48 | Richard Keeble Mason, Jr. | Yes | | 49 | John Joseph McLaughlin | Needed | | 50 | Louis Robert McMullen | Yes | | 51 | Curtis Maurice Melancon | Yes | | 52 | Alfred Metzler | Yes | | 53 | Dale Clarence Miller | Needed | | 54 | Arthur Joseph Minkle, Jr. | Yes | | 55 | William Morrison | Yes | | 56 | Bernard Natov | Yes | | 57 | Norman Wilfrid Naylor | Yes | | 58 | Charles Fredrick Nixon | Yes | | 59 | Thomas Benjamin Oakley, Jr. | Yes | | 60 | Louis Richard Orth | Yes | | 61 | Albert Donald Owen | Yes | | 62 | Johnnie Padilla | Needed | | 63 | Henry Robert Parus, Jr. | Yes | | 64 | Raymond Joseph Picard | Yes | | 65 | Eugene Wallace Post | Yes | | 66 | Charles Henry Ratnecht | Yes | | 67 | Edgar Perry Read | Yes | | 68 | Henry Edward Rhodes | Yes | | 69 | Eugene Wilson Rothenberger | Yes | | 70 | Kurt George Schulz | Yes | | 71 | Paul Sebestyen, Jr. | Yes | | 72 | Clark Oliver Shay | Yes | | 73 | David Garrett Simmons | Yes | | 74 | Walter Donald Smith | Yes | | 75 | Walter Lewis Smith | Yes | | 76 | Nicola Luca Stevanovich, Jr. | Yes | | 77 | Steven Joseph Stoiner | Yes | | 78 | James Wesley Stubblefield | Yes | | 79 | Carl Francis Suba | Yes | | 80 | Joel A. Tanner | Yes | | 81 | Donald Thomas Thigpen | Yes | | 82 | Francis Pugh Thomas | Yes | | 83 | Harold Eugene Thompson | Yes | | 84 | Rena Bernard Tullier | Yes | | 85 | Paul Frederick Vail | Yes | | 86 | Ralph Vecere | Yes | | 87 | Roy Douglas Welch, Jr. | Needed | | 88 | Richard Louis Weterings | Yes | | 89 | William Wadsworth Williams* | Yes | | 90 | Carl Allen Workman | Yes |
Note that Harold Eugene Thompson is mistakenly omitted in some sources, notably in the 1946 and 1963 editions of U.S. Submarine Losses - World War II. He is correcly listed in the 1949 edition. Sources: individual personnel file, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Navy Casualty, DPAA, and War Dead listings, and muster rolls of USS Growler.
*Killed in action in non-sinking event.
**Died in non-sinking event.
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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Growler (SS-215)
to the State of Hawaii.
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