On Eternal Patrol - USS Grampus (SS-207)

USS Grampus (SS-207)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Grampus (SS-207).

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	Louis Dixon Ball	Yes
2	John Basel	Yes
3	Walter Kent Wilson Bathgate	Yes
4	Michael Beley, Jr.	Yes
5	John Lewis Benton	Yes
6	Neil Thomas Berresford	Needed
7	Vernon Joseph Biggy	Needed
8	Curtheal Black	Yes
9	Robert Joseph Bohler	Yes
10	Donald William Bowlby	Needed
11	Friedrick Leopold Brunner	Yes
12	Walter Allen Bruns, Jr.	Needed
13	William Elmo Burdette	Needed
14	Kenneth Leroy Chaffin	Yes
15	Thomas Robert Collins	Needed
16	Thomas Lewis Conley	Yes
17	Eugene Field Corder	Needed
18	Richard Ernest Corum	Yes
19	John Rich Craig	Yes
20	Robert Lee Dexter	Needed
21	Jesse Hugh Dunnavant	Yes
22	Orville Franklin Fanning, Jr.	Needed
23	Donald Massey Fenner	Yes
24	Herminio Gonzales	Needed
25	Herbert Curtis Goodrum	Yes
26	Arthur Mac Griffith	Yes
27	Robert Pollock Guiler, III	Yes
28	Wilbur Dale Handy	Yes
29	Edward Paul Haupt, Jr.	Yes
30	Walter Charles Hendry	Yes
31	Hollis Earland Herrin	Yes
32	Michael Patrick Joyce	Yes
33	Sam Kane	Needed
34	Duane John Kilpatrick	Yes
35	Harris Raymond Larson	Needed
36	Vernon Wade Law	Needed
37	William Jennings McClure	Needed
38	Rayhugh George Michael	Yes
39	George Willard Mitchell	Yes
40	Willard Moeller	Needed
41	Joseph Henry Nash	Yes
42	Edward Roger O'Connor	Yes
43	David Edward Olexa	Yes
44	James Wesley O'Neal	Needed
45	Charles Woodrow Patrick	Needed
46	George Francis Phelps	Yes
47	Howard Cooper Pillsbury	Yes
48	Thomas Earl Poyner	Needed
49	Louis Elmore Presley	Yes
50	Verl Monroe Purdom	Yes
51	Leland Hayward Roberts	Needed
52	Chester Eugene Rudd	Yes
53	Robert Vernon Sager	Needed
54	Ivan John Sandell	Yes
55	Alvin Francis Sbisa	Yes
56	William Bernard Schmidt	Yes
57	Francis Donald Shafranski	Yes
58	Marcus Waitus Shepard	Needed
59	Alvin Roger Tagesen	Yes
60	Alvin Westly Tevis	Yes
61	George Lewis Thomas	Needed
62	James Henry Thomas	Yes
63	Robert Theodore Thrasher	Yes
64	Millard Clark Townley	Yes
65	Roger Vance Trego	Needed
66	Louis Elmer Tremmel	Yes
67	Myron Peter Tuttle	Needed
68	Roy Vander Reyden	Yes
69	Grant Albert Vedder	Yes
70	Wendell Maxwell Walters	Yes
71	Norman Eugene Wilson	Needed

Some sources list Wayne Rucker Merrill, LT, USNR, has being lost on Grampus. Records indicate that he survived the War, and, in fact, went on to command USS Batfish (SS-310) from August 21, 1943 to May 14, 1944.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Grampus (SS-207)

to the State of California.

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