On Eternal Patrol - USS S-26 (SS-131)

USS S-26 (SS-131)

The following men were lost while serving on USS S-26 (SS-131).

See the Submarine Discoveries page for information on the rediscovery of the wreck of this vessel.

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.

For a brief history of the boat, please see The Loss of USS S-26.

	Name	Photo
1	Leonard William Adams	Yes
2	Leroy Arthur Amick	Yes
3	Glen Willard Anderson	Needed
4	George Baranick	Yes
5	Clinton Adam Bauer	Yes
6	Alvin Charles Baumbach	Yes
7	William Paul Biebuyck	Needed
8	Harry Allen Brown	Yes
9	Edwin Bruno Burchart	Yes
10	George Owen Burroughs	Yes
11	Carl Rex Claflin	Yes
12	Carl Cecil Clark	Needed
13	Richard Kenneth Clough	Yes
14	Eugene Oscar Crabtree	Yes
15	Byron Crumbley	Needed
16	James Douglas Dawson	Yes
17	Elwood Ehrle	Needed
18	David Birch Evans	Yes
19	Ray Amos Freeman	Yes
20	Robert Francis Gamble	Yes
21	Joseph Mathew Gill	Needed
22	Robert Earl Holt	Yes
23	Bennie Stephen Homic	Yes
24	Nathaniel Noble Johnson	Needed
25	Harry John Kassebaum	Needed
26	Walter Garcia Lorente	Yes
27	Lloyd Milford Love	Yes
28	Robert Wallace MacLachlan	Needed
29	Raymond Charles Mattes	Yes
30	Robert Edward Nelson	Yes
31	John Patrick O'Brien	Needed
32	Thomas Videtto Peters	Yes
33	Arthur Burnett Peterson	Yes
34	Hazel B. Plyler	Yes
35	Carl Raymond Ramsey	Yes
36	Steven Samuel Rifkin	Needed
37	George Gilbert Russell	Yes
38	Clifford Edward Russler	Yes
39	John Michael Schmutz	Yes
40	William Chester Seibert	Yes
41	Herbert Fred Shattuck	Needed
42	Joseph Briggs Stubbins	Yes
43	Harry Landau Taylor	Yes
44	Thomas Calvin Thompson	Needed
45	Paul Herbert Tow	Yes
46	Roderique Dolar Vezina	Yes

The following USS S-26 crew members survived the sinking.

1	Earle Clifford Hawk (Commanding Officer)
2	Joe B. Hurst
3	Robert Elwin McCraner Ward

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS S-26 (SS-131)

to the State of Alaska.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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