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.

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	Name	Photo
1	David Louis Aarhaus	Yes
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*	Yes
8	Benjamin Franklin Autrey*	Yes
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	William Branchen, Jr.	Needed
24	Ralph Emory Brendlinger	Yes
25	Ralph John Brennan	Needed
26	Don Baily Bristow	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	William Theodore Carpenter*	Needed
38	John Franklin Casey*	Needed
39	George Reece Chaney	Yes
40	Joseph Gordon Chenoweth	Yes
41	George John Chopchik	Needed
42	Roy Lee Clack*	Yes
43	Charles Porter Claffy	Yes
44	Vernon Floyd Clark	Needed
45	Alva Leroy Clary	Needed
46	Claude Dewitt Combs*	Yes
47	Alonzo Edger Cook, Jr.	Needed
48	Benjamin Franklin Coon*	Needed
49	Alva Roberts Cowan	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	Yes
59	Edward Howard Engblom	Needed
60	Clarence DeVere Fairchild, Jr.	Yes
61	Henry Joseph Fisher, Jr.	Needed
62	Morris Alton Flagg	Needed
63	Clarence Stewart Foss*	Yes
64	Kenneth Carl France*	Yes
65	Orlan Elwin Fuller	Needed
66	Eugene Arthur Gammon*	Yes
67	William Burton Gay	Needed
68	Lawrence Junior Gibbs*	Needed
69	Bill Edmond Gillespie	Needed
70	Jesse James Gilliam	Needed
71	Farrell Cyrus Girkin*	Needed
72	Robert James Gisner	Needed
73	Charles Francis Glover	Needed
74	Edgar Henry Goslin*	Needed
75	Joseph Anthony Granes	Needed
76	Dewitt Osborn Graves	Needed
77	Charles Ambrose Guyon	Needed
78	Alton Henry Hall	Needed
79	Joseph Ambrose Halpin	Needed
80	Dewey Lee Hardy	Needed
81	Roland Eugene Harrell	Yes
82	John S. Harrington**	Needed
83	John Soloman Harris	Yes
84	Lamar Hugo Hartje	Needed
85	Jenness Peraly Haskell	Needed
86	Edward Warren Hastings	Needed
87	Bazil Muse Hatfield, Jr.	Needed
88	Maurice Charles Havey	Yes
89	Adolph Hede	Yes
90	William Louis Hershey*	Needed
91	Ross Eldon Hippler*	Needed
92	Allen Albert Hirst*	Yes
93	Kermit Ward Hodges	Needed
94	David Carroll Howard	Needed
95	Frederick Christopher Howell	Needed
96	Ernest John Hubal	Needed
97	Lawrence Thomas Hughes*	Yes
98	Edward Jennings Hutchison	Needed
99	Lester Dale Jackson	Needed
100	Howard Frank Jaquin	Needed
101	Donald Charles Jensen	Needed
102	Arthur Johnson	Needed
103	Harlan Wayne Johnson	Needed
104	Robert Edward Johnson	Needed
105	William Beecher Jones	Needed
106	Leo Benedict Kalamaja*	Needed
107	John Edward Kanae*	Needed
108	Harry Edwin Karwoski*	Needed
109	Harold Gene Kelley	Needed
110	Charles Raymond Kelly	Needed
111	Benjamin Franklin Kennedy	Needed
112	Murry Bryan Kimball	Needed
113	Horace Edward King	Needed
114	Kenneth Harold Kinney	Needed
115	Lloyd Elmer Klett, Jr.	Yes
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*	Yes
122	Clifford Stanley Lesurf	Needed
123	Robert Simon Lewis	Needed
124	Edward James Lloyd	Needed
125	Otto James Lyon*	Needed
126	Donald Dale Mackey	Needed
127	Jose Malazo	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	Nicholas 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	Yes
143	Robert Bruce Monroe	Needed
144	Harold Martin Moore	Needed
145	Keith Noel Morrell	Yes
146	J. Earl Moulton	Needed
147	Anderson Mitchell Munn	Needed
148	Jack Kenneth Nash*	Needed
149	Bethel Veech Otter	Yes
150	Gilbert E. Palmer	Needed
151	William Harrison Patrick*	Needed
152	Woodrow David Patterson*	Needed
153	Loren Boyd Penter*	Needed
154	Paul Edward Perry	Yes
155	Herbert Laverne Phelps	Needed
156	George Hendrick Phifer	Needed
157	Clark Allen Philson*	Needed
158	Nicholas Frank Piacun	Yes
159	Arthur William Pinkham	Needed
160	Paul Webster Pinkham*	Needed
161	Justino Pletado	Needed
162	Luther Melvin Pliler*	Needed
163	Frank Jay Potter*	Needed
164	John Michael Powell*	Yes
165	Odeen Delano Powell*	Needed
166	Reese Powell	Needed
167	Ray Sherman Pryor	Needed
168	Howard William Purinton	Yes
169	Benjamin Nathan Rauch, Jr.*	Needed
170	Frederick Scott Ravin	Needed
171	Frank Anthony Re	Needed
172	Solomon Reeves	Needed
173	William Lloyd Reiter	Needed
174	William Henry Rex	Needed
175	Lloyd Houghten Schantz	Needed
176	Charles William Schnabel	Needed
177	William Theodore Schneider	Needed
178	Robert Glenn Shove	Yes
179	Kenneth Woodrow Shumway*	Needed
180	Benjamin Ford Siegel	Needed
181	Ansel King Simpson	Needed
182	Percy Henry Simpson	Needed
183	Peter Smetana	Needed
184	Howard Bruce Smith*	Needed
185	Julio Forest Smith	Needed
186	Rudolph Paul Steck	Needed
187	George Edward Stires	Needed
188	Peter Paul Swinconos*	Needed
189	Forest Lee Taylor*	Needed
190	James Leon Taylor*	Needed
191	Linzia Coy Teem	Needed
192	Arthur Joseph Thumme	Needed
193	Charles Richard Tinker*	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	Lynn Clayton Weeman	Yes
200	Leonard Michael Weis	Needed
201	John Lytle Welch	Yes
202	Manuel Owen Whitaker	Needed
203	William Douglas Wiley	Needed
204	Paul John Wilkens	Needed
205	William Wojtkielewicz*	Needed
206	Kenneth Charles Wood	Needed
207	Thaddeus Wresinski*	Needed
208	Robert Sanford Wright	Needed
209	Marion Richard Yeargin	Yes
210	Ralph William Young	Needed
211	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).

**Records for John S. Harrington are unverified. Please contact us if you have any information on this man.

Records for George Phillip Trichler, who was previously listed on this page, show that he was not killed in the War, and was discharged from the Navy on July 23, 1943.

Please note: Research has shown that James Edward Carpenter and Frank King, who were previously listed on this page, were liberated form Prisoner of War camp, and survived the War.

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