On Eternal Patrol - USS Capelin (SS-289)

USS Capelin (SS-289)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Capelin (SS-289). The records of two men, R. C. Rhimann and D. T. Smith, have not been verified. If you have any information on these men, please contact us.

Click on a man's name to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right.

	Name	Photo
1	Buford Young Arney	Needed
2	Clarence Monroe Ball	Needed
3	Claude Iziah Beck, Jr.	Yes
4	Gerald Ralph Blair	Needed
5	Perry Carr Bragg	Yes
6	Richard Lindsay Britton	Yes
7	Ellis Samuel Brown, Jr.	Yes
8	Marcy Horner Butler	Needed
9	Foster Thomas Callahan	Needed
10	John Joseph Callahan, Jr.	Yes
11	Joseph Peter Cavanaugh	Needed
12	Earl Cheatham	Needed
13	Everett Ray Clifford	Needed
14	Charles William Colyer	Yes
15	Joe Lawrence Cross	Needed
16	James David Crowley	Needed
17	Charles Francis DeFreytas	Needed
18	William Francis Devine	Needed
19	William John Devine	Needed
20	Paul Lee Dill	Needed
21	Lester Theodore Eklund	Yes
22	Charles Lowell Everhart	Yes
23	John Francis Ganley, Jr.	Needed
24	Phillip Jearold Gillen	Yes
25	Peter Grabnickas	Yes
26	Melvin Jay Hicks	Yes
27	James Wilson Holt, Jr.	Needed
28	Dick Jacobs	Yes
29	Loyle Oliver Keaton	Needed
30	Denver Guy Kennedy, Jr.	Needed
31	Isidore Irving Klein	Needed
32	John Walter Koziol	Yes
33	Eugene James Krall	Yes
34	William Alfred Lafferty	Needed
35	Leo Allen Landres	Needed
36	Donald Wallace Lange	Yes
37	Edwin Jack Lester	Yes
38	William Mitchell Lewitt	Needed
39	John Leo Lutley	Yes
40	John Wesley Maddox	Needed
41	Alfred Madey	Yes
42	Elliot Eugene Marshall	Yes
43	William Barton Mason, Jr.	Yes
44	George Robert Melvin	Yes
45	Otto Frederick Moeller	Yes
46	Henry Frank Morgan	Yes
47	Elmer Andrew Norris	Needed
48	Cyril Robert Novotny	Needed
49	Melvin Bernard O'Donnell	Needed
50	Stanley Roderick Olsen	Needed
51	Thomas Earl O'Neal	Needed
52	Clinton Frank O'Neil	Needed
53	Finon Perry	Needed
54	Herman Elroy Pettigrew, Jr.	Needed
55	William Norwood Pilkinton	Yes
56	Richard Powell	Needed
57	William Edward Raminski	Needed
58	R. C. Rhimann*	Needed
59	John Edgar Rhodes, Jr.	Yes
60	Claude William Roberts	Yes
61	Edward Dunbar Robertson	Yes
62	Walter Allen Sharer	Yes
63	Harry Simon	Yes
64	D. T. Smith*	Needed
65	Leon Clinton Smith	Needed
66	Robert Lowell Smith	Yes
67	Edward John Smolenski	Needed
68	Norman William Snyder	Yes
69	Walter William Stasik	Yes
70	Erwin Henry Steege	Needed
71	Robert Glenn Stickle	Yes
72	Robert William Terrell	Needed
73	Jerry Louis Thibeault	Needed
74	Roy Charles Uhlmann	Needed
75	Curtis Lisbon Vassar, Jr.	Yes
76	Charles Wesley Vaughan	Needed
77	Ernest Eugene Wellman	Yes
78	Herman Henry Winkler, Jr.	Needed

*Records unverified.

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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Capelin (SS-289)

to the State of New Hampshire.

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