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. A large 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 probably 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 Aarhaus	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	Yes
12	Virgil Kenneth Baldwin	Yes
13	Charles Sherman Barker	Needed
14	Woods Richardson Barlow	Yes
15	Donald Patrick Barrett	Needed
16	Robert Leon Barrows	Needed
17	Joseph John Beisler	Yes
18	Theodore Stanley Berry	Needed
19	John Cunninghan Brakey Biddle	Needed
20	Charles Acle Bishop*	Needed
21	Wilbur Burdett Blackburn	Needed
22	Dwaine Gale Bond	Needed
23	C. D. Bowen	Needed
24	William Branchen, Jr.	Needed
25	Ralph Emory Brendlinger	Needed
26	Ralph John Brennan	Needed
27	Richard Cloyd Brittingham	Needed
28	Ellis Richard Brown	Needed
29	William Burns*	Yes
30	George Dwight Butler*	Needed
31	Walker Kohler Byers, Jr.	Needed
32	Jack Rudolph Byrd	Needed
33	Peter Caioly	Needed
34	Waid Bertram Calhoun*	Needed
35	John Nelson Cambron	Needed
36	John Judson Campbell	Needed
37	James Edward Carpenter	Needed
38	William Theodore Carpenter*	Needed
39	John Franklin Casey*	Needed
40	George Reece Chaney	Needed
41	Joseph Gordon Chenoweth	Yes
42	George John Chopchik	Needed
43	Roy Lee Clack*	Yes
44	Charles Porter Claffy	Yes
45	Vernon Floyd Clarke	Needed
46	Alva Leroy Clary	Needed
47	Claude Dewitt Combs*	Needed
48	Alonzo Edgar Cook, Jr.	Needed
49	Benjamin Franklin Coon*	Needed
50	Joseph Theodore Cox*	Needed
51	Leonard Crane	Needed
52	James Hollie Darling	Needed
53	Leonard Joseph Deck	Needed
54	Vernon Melvin Deck*	Needed
55	Victorino Deguzman	Needed
56	John Porter Derrington	Needed
57	George Dudley Edwards	Needed
58	John William Elliot	Needed
59	Edward Howard Engblom	Needed
60	Henry Joseph Fisher, Jr.	Needed
61	Morris Alton Flagg	Needed
62	Clarence Stewart Foss*	Yes
63	Kenneth Carl France*	Yes
64	Orlan Elwin Fuller	Needed
65	Eugene Arthur Gammon*	Needed
66	William Burton Gay	Needed
67	Lawrence Junior Gibbs	Needed
68	Bill Edmond Gillespie	Needed
69	Jesse James Gilliam	Needed
70	Farrell Cyrus Girkin*	Needed
71	Robert James Gisner	Needed
72	Charles Francis Glover	Needed
73	Edgar Henry Goslin*	Needed
74	Joseph Anthony Granes	Needed
75	Dewitt Osborn Graves	Needed
76	Charles Ambrose Guyon	Needed
77	Alton Henry Hall	Needed
78	Joseph Ambrose Halpin	Needed
79	Dewey Lee Hardy	Needed
80	Roland Eugene Harrell	Yes
81	John S. Harrington	Needed
82	John Soloman Harris	Yes
83	Lamar Hugo Hartje	Needed
84	Jenness Peraly Haskell	Needed
85	Edward Warren Hastings	Needed
86	Bazil Muse Hatfield	Needed
87	Maurice Charles Havey	Yes
88	Adolph Hede	Yes
89	William Louis Hershey*	Needed
90	Ross Eldon Hippler*	Needed
91	Allen Albert Hirst*	Needed
92	Kermit Ward Hodges	Needed
93	David Carroll Howard	Needed
94	Frederick Christopher Howell	Needed
95	Ernest John Hubal	Needed
96	Lawrence Thomas Hughes*	Needed
97	Edward Jennings Hutchinson	Needed
98	Lester Dale Jackson	Needed
99	Howard Frank Jaquin	Needed
100	Donald C. Jenson	Needed
101	Arthur Johnson	Needed
102	Harlan Wayne Johnson	Needed
103	Robert Edward Johnson	Needed
104	William B. Jones	Needed
105	Leo Benedict Kalamaja*	Needed
106	John Edward Kanae*	Needed
107	Harry Edwin Karwoski*	Needed
108	Harold Gene Kelley	Needed
109	Charles Raymond Kelly	Needed
110	Benjamin Franklin Kennedy	Needed
111	Murry Bryan Kimball	Needed
112	Frank King	Needed
113	Horace Edward King	Needed
114	Kenneth Harold Kinney	Needed
115	Lloyd Elmer Klett	Needed
116	Adam Jack Klupp*	Yes
117	Mark John Koep	Needed
118	Charles Herman Kramb, Jr.	Needed
119	David Lexton Latham	Needed
120	Charles Frederick LeComte	Yes
121	George Waldon Lee*	Needed
122	Clifford Stanley Lesore	Needed
123	Robert Simon Lewis	Needed
124	Edward James Lloyd	Needed
125	John Jackson Lowrey*	Yes
126	Otto James Lyon*	Needed
127	Donald Dale Mackey	Needed
128	Joseph Malysicwski	Needed
129	Kenneth James Matchett*	Needed
130	Jacob Mathis	Yes
131	Clyde Maxwell	Needed
132	Richard Henry Mayberry	Needed
133	Virgil Ford McClatchey*	Needed
134	Nickolas Joseph McCormack	Needed
135	Charles Francis McCoy	Needed
136	William Thomas McCranie*	Needed
137	Walter Rea McCuen*	Yes
138	Raymond Kermit McIntire	Needed
139	Francis Joseph McManus	Yes
140	Ferdinand Frank Meringolo	Yes
141	Darius Thomas Midgett	Needed
142	Walter Herschel Mitchell	Needed
143	Robert Bruce Monroe	Needed
144	Harold Martin Moore	Needed
145	Keith Noel Morrell	Needed
146	J. Earl Moulton	Needed
147	Anderson Mitchell Munn	Needed
148	Jack Kenneth Nash*	Needed
149	Bethel Veech Otter	Yes
150	William Harrison Patrick*	Needed
151	Woodrow David Patterson*	Needed
152	Loren Boyd Penter*	Needed
153	Paul Edward Perry	Yes
154	Herbert Laverne Phelps	Needed
155	George Hendrick Phifer	Needed
156	Clark Allen Philson	Needed
157	Nicholas Frank Piacun	Needed
158	Arthur William Pinkham	Needed
159	Paul Webster Pinkham*	Needed
160	Luther Melvin Pliler*	Needed
161	Frank Jay Potter	Needed
162	John Michael Powell*	Yes
163	Odeen Delano Powell*	Needed
164	Reese Powell	Needed
165	Ray Sherman Pryor	Needed
166	Howard William Purinton	Yes
167	Benjamin Nathan Rauch, Jr.*	Needed
168	Frederick Scott Ravin	Needed
169	Frank Anthony Re	Needed
170	Solomon Reeves	Needed
171	William Lloyd Reiter	Needed
172	William Henry Rex	Needed
173	Lloyd Houghten Schantz	Needed
174	Charles William Schnabel	Needed
175	William Theodore Schneider	Needed
176	Robert Glenn Shove	Yes
177	Kenneth Woodrow Shumway*	Needed
178	Benjamin Ford Siegel	Needed
179	Ansel King Simpson	Needed
180	Percy Henry Simpson	Needed
181	Peter Smetana	Needed
182	Howard Bruce Smith*	Needed
183	Julio Forest Smith	Needed
184	Rudolph Paul Steck	Needed
185	George Edward Stires	Needed
186	Peter Paul Swinconos*	Needed
187	Forest Lee Taylor*	Needed
188	James Leon Taylor*	Needed
189	Linzia Coy Teem	Needed
190	Thaddeus Thorpe	Needed
191	Arthur Joseph Thumme	Needed
192	Charles Richard Tinker*	Needed
193	George Phillip Trichler	Needed
194	Paul Sanford Tulloch	Needed
195	Lawrence Franklin Tyree*	Needed
196	Guy Vance	Needed
197	Thomas Edwin Wall	Needed
198	Edward Clarence Webber*	Needed
199	Leonard Michael Weis	Needed
200	John Lytle Welch	Yes
201	Manuel Owen Whitaker	Needed
202	William Douglas Wiley	Needed
203	John Paul Wilkens	Needed
204	William Wojtkielewicz*	Needed
205	Kenneth Charles Wood	Needed
206	Thaddeus Wresinski*	Needed
207	Robert Sanford Wright	Needed
208	Marion Richard Yeargin	Needed
209	Ralph William Young	Needed
210	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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