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USS Albacore (SS-218)

 

The final resting place of USS Albacore was discovered by Dr. Tamaki Ura of Tokyo University, and the identity of the wreck has been verified by the the Naval History and Heritage Command. See our Albacore Links and Articles page, as well as our Submarine Discoveries page for more information in the discovery of this vessel.

The following men were lost while serving on USS Albacore (SS-218). 

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 Albacore.

For information on the ships that Albacore sank, please see Albacore Sinkings.

 
  Name Photo
1

Walter Henry Barber, Jr.

 Yes
2

Kenneth Ripley Baumer

 Yes
3

Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr.

 Yes
4

Edward Brown Blackmon

 Yes
5

William Walter Bower

 Yes
6

Allan Rose Brannam

 Yes
7

Herbert Hodge Burch

 Yes

8

Nicholas John Cado

 Yes
9

John Joseph Carano

 Yes

10

Charles Lee Carpenter

 Yes
11

James Louis Carpenter

 Needed
12

Pasquale Charles Carracino

 Yes
13

David Stanley Chapman

 Yes
14

Douglas Childress, Jr.

 Yes
15

Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr.

 Yes
16

Perry Aubrey Collom

 Yes
17

Audrey Cecil Crayton

 Yes

18

Jack Eugene Cugnin

 Yes
19

John Wilber Culbertson

 Yes

20

Philip Hugh Davis

 Yes
21

Ray Ellis Davis*

 Yes
22

Fred Wallace Day

 Yes
23

Julius Delfonso

 Yes
24

James Leroy DeWitt

 Yes
25

James Thomas Dunlap

 Yes
26

Carl Hillis Eskew

 Yes

27

John Francis Fortier, Jr.

 Yes
28

Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr.

 Yes
29

John Wilfred Gant

 Yes
30

John Paul Gennett

 Yes
31

William Henry Gibson

 Yes
32

John Frederick Gilkeson

 Yes

33

Charles Chester Hall

 Yes
34

James Kenneth Harrell

 Yes
35

Robert Daniel Hill

 Yes
36

Allen Don Hudgins

 Yes
37

Donald Patrick Hughes

 Yes
38

Eugene Edsel Hutchinson

 Yes
39

Burton Paul Johnson

 Yes

40

Sheridan Patrick Jones

 Yes

41

George Kaplafka

 Yes
42

Nelson Kelley, Jr.

 Yes
43

Morris Keith Kincaid

 Yes

44

Victor Edward Kinon

 Yes

45

Joseph Mike Krizanek

 Yes

46

Arthur Star Kruger

 Yes

47

Walter Emery Lang, Jr.

 Yes

48

Jack Allen Little

 Yes
49

Kenneth Walter Manful

 Yes

50

Patrick Kennyless McKenna

 Yes

51

Willie Alexander McNeill

 Needed

52

Joseph Norfleet Mercer

 Yes
53

Leonard David Moss

 Yes
54

Richard Joseph Naudack

 Yes

55

Encarnacion Nevarez

 Yes

56

Joseph Hayes Northam

 Yes

57

Frank Robert Nystrom

 Yes
58

Robert James O'Brien

 Yes

59

Elmer Harold Peterson

 Yes
60

Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr.

 Yes

61

James Teel Porter

 Yes

62

Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr.

 Yes
63

Francis Albert Riley

 Yes
64

Hugh Raynor Rimmer

 Yes
65

A. B. Roberts

 Yes

66

James Ernest Rowe

 Yes
67

Philip Shoenthal

 Yes
68

George Maurice Sisk

 Yes

69

Joe Lewis Spratt

 Yes
70

Harold William St. Clair

 Yes
71

Arthur Lemmie Stanton

 Yes
72

Robert Joseph Starace

 Yes
73

John Henry Stephenson

 Yes
74

Maurice Crooks Strattan

 Yes
75 Earl Richard Tanner  Yes
76 William George Tesser  Yes
77 Paul Raymond Tomich  Yes
78 Charles Edward Traynor  Yes
79 Theodore Taylor Walker  Yes
80 Elmer Weisenfluh  Yes
81 James Donald Welch  Yes
82 Richard Albert West  Yes
83 Wesley Joseph Willans  Yes
84 Leslie Allan Wilmott  Yes
85 David Robert Wood  Yes

In some sources, Sylvester Martin Wright, Steward's Mate, Second Class, is listed as being lost with his shipmates.  Records in the National Archives show that he was transferred off the boat on October 28, 1944, immediately before she was lost. He is not listed in NARA, Navy Casualty, DPAA, ABMC, nor on the COMSUBPAC page.  Source: individual personnel files, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, and muster rolls of USS Albacore.  He served on LST-221 after the War. Origin of discrepancy (86) found in Sub Losses (1946 and 1963, although he is not listed in 1949) and in Christley, who mistakenly included Sylvester M(artin) Wright.

*Previously, this page listed Roy Edgar Davis as an Albacore crew member.  Research has shown that Ray Ellis Davis was the man who was lost with his shipmates on Albacore.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Albacore (SS-218) to the State of Oregon.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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