On Eternal Patrol - USS Pompano (SS-181) (original) (raw)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Pompano (SS-181).

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.

Research into the loss of this vessel is presently being conducted.

For a brief history of the boat, please see The Loss of USS Pompano.

| | Name | ----------- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | Photo | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------ | | Don Earl Allen | Yes | | Leonard McGuire Anstine | Yes | | Jesse Leo Appel | Yes | | John Joseph Bennett | Yes | | Robert Dudley Bissell | Yes | | Carl Blum | Yes | | George Savage Brooks, Jr. | Yes | | James Joseph Buckley | Yes | | Herbert Andrew Calcaterra* | Yes | | Robert William Carlson | Yes | | Robert Fulton Case | Yes | | Leo Earnest Caskey | Yes | | William Omer Christian | Yes | | Huston Quinn Cravens | Yes | | Chester Alonza Delbridge | Yes | | William Woodrow Wilson Dennis | Yes | | George Edward Eaves | Yes | | Charles Frederick Feazelle | Yes | | George Albert Gaffney, Jr. | Yes | | Edward Joseph Galloway | Yes | | Sherman Ganious | Yes | | Veldean Gipson | Yes | | John Felix Graeflin | Yes | | Lowell Keith Gray | Yes | | Robert Richard Gross | Yes | | Hiram Paul Guess | Yes | | Donald Sidney Hanson | Yes | | John Walter Hanson | Yes | | William Wilson Hastings | Yes | | Theo Phillis Helms | Yes | | Robert Buchanan Jenckes | Yes | | John David Jenkins | Yes | | George Alfred Jennings | Yes | | Otis Peyton Johnigan | Yes | | Stanley Ford Johnson | Yes | | Martin Luther Keesee | Yes | | Fred Joseph Kirschbaum | Yes | | John Henry Lassiter | Yes | | Eugene George Laux | Yes | | Wesley Lewis Leonard | Yes | | Robert Lorenz | Yes | | Charles Arthur Madden | Yes | | Raymond Lorne Mansfield | Yes | | Donald Paul Masucci | Yes | | Cleo Locke Matthews | Yes | | Thomas Patrick McGrath | Yes | | William George Messerschmidt | Needed | | Robert Gene Meyer | Yes | | William Alfred Mikkelson | Yes | | Arthur Martin Moitz | Yes | | Raymond Dale Morgan | Yes | | Bernard Joseph O'Connell | Yes | | Jay S. Owen | Yes | | Howard Shuler Page | Yes | | Phillip Douglas Parady | Yes | | Chester Robert Phillips | Yes | | Chester Phipps | Yes | | Claire Cornwell Poole | Yes | | Wayne Clifford Proctor | Yes | | Walter Pyzow | Yes | | Cleo Thomas Rafferty | Yes | | Giles Russell Reed | Yes | | Peter Revotskie | Yes | | Robert Leo Rice | Yes | | Vincent Paul Ritzenhein | Yes | | Arthur Dallas Rodgers | Yes | | William Hervey Rogers | Yes | | Stanley Frank Rokosz | Yes | | Joseph Rubscha, Jr. | Yes | | Frank Blagg Scott | Yes | | Joseph Narciss Shedloski | Yes | | Irvin Gerald Slinden | Yes | | Vernon LeRoy Swanson | Yes | | Willis Manning Thomas | Yes | | Jean Edward Wagner | Yes | | Michael James Warwick | Needed | | David Whitford White | Yes | | Charlie Albert Wilson | Yes |

*H. A. Calcaterra was killed while manning the boat's deck gun on September 4, 1942.

Pompano crew members George Alfred Jennings and Claire Cornwell Poole are mistakenly omitted in some sources. Please see our "Discrepancies in Numbers of Lost Submariners" page for further information.

Pompano crew member Ronald Heister was ashore for some dental work and was not with his shipmates when their boat was lost. He lives for the memory of the men he served with.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Pompano (SS-181)

to the State of Kentucky.

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