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The submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9)
received severe damage when hit by heavy bombers on December 29,
1941. She lost six of her crew in the attack, with another six
wounded. She was
later scuttled off Manila Bay rather than face capture by the enemy.
Her crew was used in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor.
An undetermined number of her crew died in the Philippine
Islands, during transport to POW camps in Japan, or in the camps
themselves.
The listing below is incomplete.
Men who are linked to a personal page on this site are in
blue text.
Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in
the column at right.
| |
Name |
Photo |
| 1 |
David Louis Aahaus |
Needed |
| 2 |
Chester Lee Abrams |
Needed |
| 3 |
Harry Edward Adams* |
Needed |
| 4 |
William Fabian Allard |
Needed |
| 5 |
James Douglas Allen |
Needed |
| 6 |
Eugene Allan Ambro* |
Yes |
| 7 |
John Bertram Arnaud* |
Needed |
| 8 |
Benjamin Franklin Autrey* |
Needed |
| 9 |
Robert William Baer* |
Needed |
| 10 |
Paul Reginald Baggett |
Needed |
| 11 |
Vincent Leonard Bailey |
Needed |
| 12 |
Virgil Kenneth Baldwin |
Needed |
| 13 |
Charles Sherman Barker |
Needed |
| 14 |
Woods Richardson Barlow |
Needed |
| 15 |
Donald Patrick Barrett |
Needed |
| 16 |
Joseph John Beisler |
Yes |
| 17 |
Charles Acle Bishop* |
Needed |
| 18 |
Wilbur Burdett Blackburn |
Needed |
| 19 |
Dwaine Gale Bond |
Needed |
| 20 |
Ralph Emory Brendlinger |
Needed |
| 21 |
Richard Cloyd Brittingham |
Needed |
| 22 |
Ellis Richard Brown |
Needed |
| 23 |
William Burns* |
Needed |
| 24 |
George Dwight Butler* |
Needed |
| 25 |
Jack Rudolph Byrd |
Needed |
| 26 |
Peter Caioly |
Needed |
| 27 |
Waid Bertram Calhoun* |
Needed |
| 28 |
John Nelson Cambron |
Needed |
| 29 |
John Judson Campbell |
Needed |
| 30 |
William Theodore Carpenter* |
Needed |
| 31 |
John Franklin Casey* |
Needed |
| 32 |
George Reece Chaney |
Needed |
| 33 |
Joseph Gordon Chenoweth |
Yes |
| 34 |
George John Chopchik |
Needed |
| 35 |
Roy Lee Clack* |
Needed |
| 36 |
Charles Porter Claffy |
Needed |
| 37 |
Alonzo Edgar Cook, Jr. |
Needed |
| 38 |
Benjamin Franklin Coon* |
Needed |
| 39 |
Joseph Theodore Cox* |
Needed |
| 40 |
Leonard Crane |
Needed |
| 41 |
Arthur Barton Cross |
Needed |
| 42 |
James Hollie Darling |
Needed |
| 43 |
Vernon Melvin Deck* |
Needed |
| 44 |
George Dudley Edwards |
Needed |
| 45 |
Clarence Stewart Foss* |
Needed |
| 46 |
Kenneth Carl France* |
Yes |
| 47 |
Eugene Arthur Gammon* |
Needed |
| 48 |
Farrell Cyrus Girkin* |
Needed |
| 49 |
Edgar Henry Goslin* |
Needed |
| 50 |
Roland Eugene Harrell |
Yes |
| 51 |
John Soloman Harris |
Yes |
| 52 |
Jenness Peraly Haskell |
Needed |
| 53 |
Edward Warren Hastings |
Needed |
| 54 |
Maurice Charles Havey |
Yes |
| 55 |
Adolph Hede |
Yes |
| 56 |
William L. Hersey* |
Needed |
| 57 |
Ross Eldon Hippler* |
Needed |
| 58 |
Allen Albert Hirst* |
Needed |
| 59 |
Lawrence Thomas Hughes* |
Needed |
| 60 |
Leo B. Kalrmaja* |
Needed |
| 61 |
John Edward Kanae* |
Needed |
| 62 |
Harry E. Karwaski* |
Needed |
| 63 |
Murry Bryan Kimball |
Needed |
| 64 |
Adam Jack Klupp* |
Yes |
| 65 |
Charles Herman Kramb, Jr. |
Needed |
| 66 |
Charles Frederick LeComte |
Yes |
| 67 |
George Waldon Lee* |
Needed |
| 68 |
John Jackson Lowrey* |
Yes |
| 69 |
Otto J. Lyons* |
Needed |
| 70 |
Kenneth James Matchett* |
Needed |
| 71 |
Virgil Ford McClatchey* |
Needed |
| 72 |
William Thomas McCranie* |
Needed |
| 73 |
Walter Rea McCue* |
Needed |
| 74 |
Jack Kenneth Nash* |
Needed |
| 75 |
Bethel Veech Otter |
Yes |
| 76 |
William Harrison Patrick* |
Needed |
| 77 |
Woodrow David Patterson* |
Needed |
| 78 |
Loren Boyd Penter* |
Needed |
| 79 |
Paul Edward
Perry |
Yes |
| 80 |
Paul Webster Pinkham* |
Needed |
| 81 |
Luther Melvin Pliler* |
Needed |
| 82 |
John Michael Powell* |
Yes |
| 83 |
Odeen Delano Powell* |
Needed |
| 84 |
Benjamin N. Rauch* |
Needed |
| 85 |
William Henry Rex |
Needed |
| 86 |
Charles William Schnabel |
Needed |
| 87 |
Kenneth Woodrow Shumway* |
Needed |
| 88 |
Ansel King Simpson |
Needed |
| 89 |
Howard Bruce Smith* |
Needed |
| 90 |
Peter Paul Swinconos* |
Needed |
| 91 |
Forest L. Taylor* |
Needed |
| 92 |
Arthur Joseph Thumme |
Needed |
| 93 |
Charles Richard Tinker* |
Needed |
| 94 |
Lawrence Franklin Tyree* |
Needed |
| 95 |
Edward Clarence Webber* |
Needed |
| 96 |
William Wojtkielewicz* |
Needed |
| 97 |
Thaddeus Wresinski* |
Needed |
| 98 |
Robert Sanford Wright |
Needed |
| 99 |
Squire Boone Zane |
Yes |
*Men who died when the Hellship Arisan Maru, transporting
Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk
on October 24, 1944 by USS Shark (SS-314).
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