On Eternal Patrol - USS Pompano (SS-181)

USS Pompano (SS-181)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Pompano (SS-181).

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	Don Earl Allen	Yes
2	Leonard McGuire Anstine	Needed
3	Jesse Leo Appel	Needed
4	John Joseph Bennett	Yes
5	Robert Dudley Bissell	Yes
6	Carl Blum	Needed
7	George Savage Brooks, Jr.	Yes
8	James Joseph Buckley	Needed
9	Herbert Andrew Calcaterra*	Yes
10	Robert William Carlson	Needed
11	Robert Fulton Case	Needed
12	Leo Earnest Caskey	Needed
13	William Omer Christian	Needed
14	Huston Quinn Cravens	Needed
15	Chester Alonza Delbridge	Needed
16	William Woodrow Wilson Dennis	Needed
17	George Edward Eaves	Needed
18	Charles Frederick Feazelle	Yes
19	George Albert Gaffney, Jr.	Yes
20	Edward Joseph Galloway	Needed
21	Sherman Ganious	Needed
22	Veldean Gipson	Yes
23	John Felix Graeflin	Needed
24	Lowell Keith Gray	Needed
25	Robert Richard Gross	Yes
26	Hiram Paul Guess	Yes
27	Donald Sidney Hanson	Yes
28	John Walter Hanson	Yes
29	William Wilson Hastings	Needed
30	Theodore Phillis Helms	Needed
31	Robert Buchanan Jenckes	Yes
32	John David Jenkins	Yes
33	George Alfred Jennings	Needed
34	Otis Peyton Johnigan	Yes
35	Stanley Ford Johnson	Needed
36	Martin Luther Keese	Needed
37	Fred Joseph Kirschbaum	Yes
38	John Henry Lassiter	Needed
39	Eugene George Laux	Yes
40	Wesley Lewis Leonard	Needed
41	Robert Lorenz	Yes
42	Charles Arthur Madden	Yes
43	Raymond Lorne Mansfield	Needed
44	Donald Paul Masucci	Yes
45	Cleo Locke Matthews	Yes
46	Thomas Patrick McGrath	Yes
47	William George Messerschmidt	Needed
48	Robert Gene Meyer	Yes
49	William Alfred Mikkelson	Needed
50	Arthur Martin Moitz	Needed
51	Raymond Dale Morgan	Needed
52	Bernard Joseph O'Connell	Yes
53	Jay S. Owen	Needed
54	Howard Shuler Page	Needed
55	Phillip Douglas Parady	Needed
56	Chester Robert Phillips	Needed
57	Chester Phipps	Yes
58	Claire Cornwell Poole	Yes
59	Wayne Clifford Proctor	Needed
60	Walter Pyzow	Yes
61	Cleo Thomas Rafferty	Needed
62	G. Russell Reed	Needed
63	Peter Revotskie	Yes
64	Robert Leo Rice	Yes
65	Vincent Paul Ritzenhein	Yes
66	Arthur Dallas Rodgers	Yes
67	William Hervey Rogers	Needed
68	Stanley Frank Rokosz	Needed
69	Joseph Rubscha, Jr.	Needed
70	Frank Blagg Scott	Yes
71	Joseph Narciss Shedloski	Yes
72	Irvin Gerald Slinden	Needed
73	Vernon LeRoy Swanson	Yes
74	Willis Manning Thomas	Yes
75	Jean Edward Wagner	Needed
76	Michael James Warwick	Needed
77	David Whitford White	Needed
78	Charlie Albert Wilson	Needed

*H. A. Calcaterra was killed while manning the boat's deck gun on September 4, 1942.

Pompano crew member Ronald Heister was ashore for some dental work and was not with his shipmates when their boat was lost. He lives for the memory of the men he served with.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Pompano (SS-181)

to the State of Kentucky.

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