On Eternal Patrol - USS Perch (SS-176)

USS Perch (SS-176)

USS Perch was forced to scuttle herself after being mortally wounded in a depth charge attack. All crew members were picked up by the Japanese, and sent to Prisoner of War camps. Six crew members of USS Perch (SS-176) died as Prisoners of War.

See The Discovery of USS Perch (SS-176) for further information.

Photos of the sunken vessel USS Perch
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If you are a crew member, or a relative or a friend of any man who served on this boat, please contact us.

Please note that, contrary to information published in many sources, Perch crew members Warren Ingram Atkeison, John Greco, and Robert Willis Osborne all survived Prisoner of War Camp, were released, and came home after the War.

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	Charles Newton Brown (POW)	Yes
2	Philip James Dewes (POW)	Needed
3	Houston Ernest Edwards (POW)	Needed
4	Frank Elmer McCreary (POW)	Needed
5	Albert Kenneth Newsome (POW)	Yes
6	Robert Archibald Wilson (POW)	Needed

See also the memorial page for Perch's Commanding Officer, David A. Hurt, who died soon after the War.

The following USS Perch crew members survived Prisoner of War camp.

1	Francis Alboney
2	Elbert Hugh Arnette
3	Warren Ingram Atkeison
4	Robert Channing Berridge
5	Sidney Henry Boersma
6	Sidney Bolden
7	Vernon Bolton
8	Thomas Francis Byrnes, Jr.
9	Gordon Bennett Clevinger
10	Daniel Crist
11	Charles L. Cross, Jr.
12	Lawrence William Dague
13	Bernard Deleman
14	Roland Ilo Earlywine
15	Virgil E. Earlywine
16	Richard Mains Evans
17	Alejo Fajotina
18	Joseph Albert Foley, Jr.
19	Benjamin S. Gill
20	Calvin Eugene Goodwine
21	John Greco
22	Earl Rector Harper
23	David Albert Hurt, Sr.
24	Thomas Leslie Kerich
25	Rudolph Klecky
26	Robert Wayne Lents
27	James George McCray
28	Elmo Paul Monroe
29	Thomas Moore
30	Joseph Raymond Normand
31	Stephen M. Orlyk
32	Robert Willis Osborne
33	Victor Sigward Pedersen
34	Orvel Vincent Peters
35	Ernest Virgil Plantz
36	Thomas John Reh
37	Paul Richard Richter, Jr.
38	Jesse Holland Robison
39	John "Jack" French Ryder
40	Macario Sarmiento
41	Kenneth George Schacht
42	Gilbert Eugene Shaefer
43	Samuel Ford Simpson
44	Frankland F. Stafford, Jr.
45	Glenn E. Taylor
46	Marion McDaniel "Turk" Turner
47	Edward Van Horn
48	Beverly Robinson VanBuskirk
49	Jacob Jay Vandergrift, Jr.
50	Felix Burrell Walton
51	James Francis Webb
52	Ancil Wayne Winger
53	Henry Strickland Yates

If you are one of these men, or a relative or a friend of any man who served on this boat, please contact us.

External Links - Online Articles

Sunken WWII sub found by accident near Java, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 21, 2007

Arkansas man recalls sinking of WWII sub, WMC-TV, Memphis

Memories Surface With Sub's Discovery, theday.com, February 5, 2007

Ledyard man was prisoner of war for 1,297 days, Norwich Bulletin, March 25, 2007

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Perch (SS-176)

to the State of Arizona.

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