On Eternal Patrol - USS O-9 (SS-70)

USS O-9 (SS-70)

The following men were lost while serving on USS O-9 (SS-70). One man was lost overboard in 1921, and there may have been an accident on board in 1918 that claimed the lives of two others. Please contact us if you have any information regarding this accident.

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	Howard Joseph Abbott	Yes
2	Marvin D. Barry	Needed
3	W. R. Cannady	Needed
4	William T. Crute	Needed
5	B. A. Davis	Needed
6	John E. Dufresne	Needed
7	Charles L. Eagleton	Needed
8	John H. Edwards	Needed
9	Herbert Talmage Fost	Yes
10	Edward G. Foster	Needed
11	James G. Fowler	Needed
12	Robert A. Gardner	Needed
13	N. Gerser	Needed
14	James G. Gillies	Needed
15	Francis H. Golden	Needed
16	F. A. Griffith	Needed
17	Francis L. Gruen	Needed
18	Francis J. Gunn	Needed
19	Joe A. Hartzog	Needed
20	Gaddis Irwin Hendy	Needed
21	Walter J. Jaskowiak	Needed
22	William C. Kaufman	Needed
23	Levitt E. Krueger	Needed
24	Allan H. Littleford	Needed
25	Chester L. Miller	Needed
26	Emile A. Ouelette	Needed
27	F. P. Schneider	Needed
28	Sam E. Sonnenburg	Needed
29	James E. Strang	Needed
30	Joseph G. Supple*	Needed
31	Thomas W. Tilliery, Jr.	Needed
32	Earl F. Varner	Needed
33	Bernard J. Venhaus	Needed
34	Marks P. Wangsness	Yes
35	William C. Wolf	Needed
36	unverified**	Needed
37	unverified**	Needed

*Lost overboard in Cape Cod Bay on August 31, 1921.
**Two men possibly died on board due to a hydraulic explosion on October 5, 1918.

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