On Eternal Patrol - USS Canopus (AS-9)

USS Canopus (AS-9)

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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