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.

If a man's name is underlined, click on it to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Eventually all men will have their own pages. 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	Yes
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 Clark	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	Yes
59	Edward Howard Engblom	Needed
60	Clarence DeVere Fairchild, Jr.	Needed
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*	Needed
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	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*	Needed
98	Edward Jennings Hutchison	Needed
99	Lester Dale Jackson	Needed
100	Howard Frank Jaquin	Needed
101	Donald C. 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	Frank King	Needed
114	Horace Edward King	Needed
115	Kenneth Harold Kinney	Needed
116	Lloyd Elmer Klett	Needed
117	Adam Jack Klupp*	Yes
118	Mark John Koep	Needed
119	Charles Herman Kramb, Jr.	Needed
120	David Lexton Latham	Needed
121	Charles Frederick LeComte	Yes
122	George Waldon Lee*	Needed
123	Clifford Stanley Lesore	Needed
124	Robert Simon Lewis	Needed
125	Edward James Lloyd	Needed
126	John Jackson Lowrey*	Yes
127	Otto James Lyon*	Needed
128	Donald Dale Mackey	Needed
129	Joseph Malysicwski	Needed
130	Kenneth James Matchett*	Needed
131	Jacob Mathis	Yes
132	Clyde Maxwell	Needed
133	Richard Henry Mayberry	Needed
134	Virgil Ford McClatchey*	Needed
135	Nickolas Joseph McCormack	Needed
136	Charles Francis McCoy	Needed
137	William Thomas McCranie*	Needed
138	Walter Rea McCuen*	Yes
139	Raymond Kermit McIntire	Needed
140	Francis Joseph McManus	Yes
141	Ferdinand Frank Meringolo	Yes
142	Darius Thomas Midgett	Needed
143	Walter Herschel Mitchell	Yes
144	Robert Bruce Monroe	Needed
145	Harold Martin Moore	Needed
146	Keith Noel Morrell	Needed
147	J. Earl Moulton	Needed
148	Anderson Mitchell Munn	Needed
149	Jack Kenneth Nash*	Needed
150	Bethel Veech Otter	Yes
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	Needed
159	Arthur William Pinkham	Needed
160	Paul Webster Pinkham*	Needed
161	Luther Melvin Pliler*	Needed
162	Frank Jay Potter	Needed
163	John Michael Powell*	Yes
164	Odeen Delano Powell*	Needed
165	Reese Powell	Needed
166	Ray Sherman Pryor	Needed
167	Howard William Purinton	Yes
168	Benjamin Nathan Rauch, Jr.*	Needed
169	Frederick Scott Ravin	Needed
170	Frank Anthony Re	Needed
171	Solomon Reeves	Needed
172	William Lloyd Reiter	Needed
173	William Henry Rex	Needed
174	Lloyd Houghten Schantz	Needed
175	Charles William Schnabel	Needed
176	William Theodore Schneider	Needed
177	Robert Glenn Shove	Yes
178	Kenneth Woodrow Shumway*	Needed
179	Benjamin Ford Siegel	Needed
180	Ansel King Simpson	Needed
181	Percy Henry Simpson	Needed
182	Peter Smetana	Needed
183	Howard Bruce Smith*	Needed
184	Julio Forest Smith	Needed
185	Rudolph Paul Steck	Needed
186	George Edward Stires	Needed
187	Peter Paul Swinconos*	Needed
188	Forest Lee Taylor*	Needed
189	James Leon Taylor*	Needed
190	Linzia Coy Teem	Needed
191	Thaddeus Thorpe	Needed
192	Arthur Joseph Thumme	Needed
193	Charles Richard Tinker*	Needed
194	George Phillip Trichler	Needed
195	Paul Sanford Tulloch	Needed
196	Lawrence Franklin Tyree*	Needed
197	Guy Vance	Needed
198	Thomas Edwin Wall	Needed
199	Edward Clarence Webber*	Needed
200	Lynn Clayton Weeman	Needed
201	Leonard Michael Weis	Needed
202	John Lytle Welch	Yes
203	Manuel Owen Whitaker	Needed
204	William Douglas Wiley	Needed
205	John Paul Wilkens	Needed
206	William Wojtkielewicz*	Needed
207	Kenneth Charles Wood	Needed
208	Thaddeus Wresinski*	Needed
209	Robert Sanford Wright	Needed
210	Marion Richard Yeargin	Yes
211	Ralph William Young	Needed
212	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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