On Eternal Patrol - USS Argonaut (SS-166)

On Eternal Patrol - USS Argonaut (APS-1), (SS-166)

USS Argonaut (SS-166)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Argonaut (APS-1), or (SS-166). Scroll down to see the listing of Marine Raiders lost on the Makin Island raid.

Please note that, contrary to information published in many sources, former Argonaut crew members Jose DeGuzman, Mario Ramos, Jr., and Hubert R. Widener all survived the War.

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.

	Name	Photo
1	Charles Henry Alexander	Yes
2	Robert Dean Alexander	Needed
3	Robert Walker Allen	Yes
4	Charles Hugh Baker	Yes
5	Robert Norman Ball	Yes
6	Thomas Walter Beecham	Needed
7	Marcelino Taclob Bergado	Yes
8	John Ben Bodak	Yes
9	Frank Howard Bowers	Yes
10	Gordon Albert Bowker	Yes
11	Robert Henry Boyt	Yes
12	Malcolm Marion Brooks	Needed
13	Milton Victor Brown	Needed
14	Crawford Keller Campbell	Yes
15	Stanley Herbert Carlisle	Yes
16	Walter Arnoldus Cartmell	Needed
17	Charles Joseph Cerrinack	Needed
18	Ivan Bush Corbin	Yes
19	Alfred Cox	Needed
20	Rodney Charles Davidson	Yes
21	Warren Walter Davis	Yes
22	Donald Henry Dischner	Yes
23	John Leak Everett, Jr.	Yes
24	Dario Frank Facchini	Yes
25	John Ferentz	Yes
26	Charles Venable Ferguson	Yes
27	George William Finley	Yes
28	William Daniel Fitzgerald	Yes
29	John Gasko	Yes
30	John Adam Gilliland, Jr.	Yes
31	Ray Lester Goshorn	Needed
32	Virgil Eugene Hall	Yes
33	Edward John Hansen	Yes
34	Robert Norris Harbison	Yes
35	Ernest Hutton Harrison	Yes
36	Dennis Russell Hartman	Yes
37	Francis Marion Hogg	Yes
38	Billy John Hudson	Yes
39	Ray Hunter	Yes
40	George Stanley Jenkins, Sr.	Yes
41	Gerald Kaplan	Needed
42	Frederick Graybill Kaylor	Yes
43	James Arthur Kelley	Yes
44	Harold Kessinger	Needed
45	Arthur Lanham Knapp	Yes
46	George Howard Kocis	Needed
47	Frank Manley Koller	Yes
48	Guy Edwin Lauder	Yes
49	George Elmer Lay	Yes
50	Charles Cecil Leaverton	Yes
51	Kenneth Richard Legler	Yes
52	Lawrence Dewain Leland	Needed
53	Frederick Henderson Lewis	Yes
54	Harold Luke Logan	Yes
55	George Alvin Lokey	Yes
56	Zody Leyritana Los Banes	Needed
57	Richard Martin Maloney, Jr.	Yes
58	Paulino Pascual Martin	Needed
59	Elmo McClelland	Yes
60	Robert Henry Miller	Yes
61	Walter Fred Miller, Jr.	Yes
62	Blaine Gilmore Miltner	Yes
63	Thomas Moore Morgan	Yes
64	William Hugh Myers, Jr.	Yes
65	Thomas Anthony Narrow, Jr.	Yes
66	Roland Franklin Nichols	Yes
67	Percy James Olds	Yes
68	Billie Butler Parker	Yes
69	Theodore Parker	Yes
70	Rolla Parsons, Jr.	Yes
71	James Wallace Peevey	Yes
72	John Reeves Pierce	Yes
73	Wayne Louis Pritchard	Yes
74	Algerd John Rasimas	Yes
75	Paul Byron Remillard	Needed
76	Robert Neal Robertson	Yes
77	Harold Lomani Rolland	Yes
78	Gerald Mann Rollins	Yes
79	Lupe Romero	Yes
80	Marion Francis Roup	Yes
81	James B. Rule	Yes
82	Fred Edsal Schempp	Yes
83	Walter Francis Seidman	Yes
84	Hugo Joseph Serafini	Yes
85	David Carrol Sheeks	Yes
86	Elwin William Sigler	Yes
87	Forrest White Simoneau	Yes
88	Thomas Luther Smith	Yes
89	John Robert Spaeth	Yes
90	Jason Stanley	Yes
91	Willie David Thomas	Yes
92	Henry John Tinling	Yes
93	Julius Vesmas	Needed
94	William Edward Vierling	Yes
95	Earle Jentoft Wagner	Needed
96	William George Wehner	Yes
97	Clifford Charles White, Jr.	Yes
98	Thomas Allen White	Yes
99	Roy Windfred Williams	Yes
100	William Denman Winsor	Yes
101	Robert Donald Wylie	Needed
102	Edward Lawrence Zintz	Yes

Records for Argonaut crew members Jose DeGuzman, Mario Ramos, Jr., and Hubert R. Widener indicate that they were not aboard the vessel when she was lost.

The following men were Marine Raiders who were carried aboard the submarines USS Argonaut and USS Nautilus (SS-168), and who gave their lives in the raid on Makin Island.

1	Robert V. Allard	Yes
2	James W. Beecher	Yes
3	Vernon Leroy Castle	Yes
4	Dallas Harry Cook	Yes
5	Richard E. Davis	Yes
6	I. B. Earles	Yes
7	William Albert Gallagher	Yes
8	Daniel Albert Gaston	Yes
9	Joseph N. Gifford	Yes
10	Ashley Warren Hicks	Yes
11	Gerald Price Holtom	Yes
12	Harris Jonathon Johnson	Yes
13	John I. Kerns	Yes
14	Kenneth Kirk Kunkle	Yes
15	Carlyle Oscar Larson	Yes
16	Edward Maciejewski	Yes
17	Alden C. Mattison	Yes
18	Robert Benton Maulding	Yes
19	Kenneth Maurice Montgomery	Yes
20	Norman Warren Mortensen	Yes
21	Franklin Merrill Nodland	Yes
22	Richard N. Olbert	Yes
23	William E. Pallesen	Yes
24	Robert Brooks Pearson	Yes
25	Donald R. A. Roberton	Yes
26	Charles Austin Selby	Yes
27	Cletus Smith	Yes
28	Clyde A. Thomason	Yes
29	John Eugene Vandenberg	Yes
30	Mason Opel Yarbrough	Yes

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Argonaut (SS-166)

to the State of California.

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