On Eternal Patrol - USS Albacore (SS-218)

USS Albacore (SS-218)

The final resting place of USS Albacore was discovered by Dr. Tamaki Ura of Tokyo University, and the identity of the wreck has been verified by the the Naval History and Heritage Command. See our Albacore Links and Articles page, as well as our Submarine Discoveries page for more information in the discovery of this vessel.

The following men were lost while serving on USS Albacore (SS-218).

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 Albacore.

For information on the ships that Albacore sank, please see Albacore Sinkings.

	Name	Photo
1	Walter Henry Barber, Jr.	Yes
2	Kenneth Ripley Baumer	Yes
3	Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr.	Yes
4	Edward Brown Blackmon	Yes
5	William Walter Bower	Yes
6	Allan Rose Brannam	Yes
7	Herbert Hodge Burch	Yes
8	Nicholas John Cado	Yes
9	John Joseph Carano	Yes
10	Charles Lee Carpenter	Yes
11	James Louis Carpenter	Needed
12	Pasquale Charles Carracino	Yes
13	David Stanley Chapman	Yes
14	Douglas Childress, Jr.	Yes
15	Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr.	Yes
16	Perry Aubrey Collom	Yes
17	Audrey Cecil Crayton	Yes
18	Jack Eugene Cugnin	Yes
19	John Wilber Culbertson	Yes
20	Philip Hugh Davis	Yes
21	Ray Ellis Davis*	Yes
22	Fred Wallace Day	Yes
23	Julius Delfonso	Yes
24	James Leroy DeWitt	Yes
25	James Thomas Dunlap	Yes
26	Carl Hillis Eskew	Yes
27	John Francis Fortier, Jr.	Yes
28	Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr.	Yes
29	John Wilfred Gant	Yes
30	John Paul Gennett	Yes
31	William Henry Gibson	Yes
32	John Frederick Gilkeson	Yes
33	Charles Chester Hall	Yes
34	James Kenneth Harrell	Yes
35	Robert Daniel Hill	Yes
36	Allen Don Hudgins	Yes
37	Donald Patrick Hughes	Yes
38	Eugene Edsel Hutchinson	Yes
39	Burton Paul Johnson	Yes
40	Sheridan Patrick Jones	Yes
41	George Kaplafka	Yes
42	Nelson Kelley, Jr.	Yes
43	Morris Keith Kincaid	Yes
44	Victor Edward Kinon	Yes
45	Joseph Mike Krizanek	Yes
46	Arthur Star Kruger	Yes
47	Walter Emery Lang, Jr.	Yes
48	Jack Allen Little	Yes
49	Kenneth Walter Manful	Yes
50	Patrick Kennyless McKenna	Yes
51	Willie Alexander McNeill	Needed
52	Joseph Norfleet Mercer	Yes
53	Leonard David Moss	Yes
54	Richard Joseph Naudack	Yes
55	Encarnacion Nevarez	Yes
56	Joseph Hayes Northam	Yes
57	Frank Robert Nystrom	Yes
58	Robert James O'Brien	Yes
59	Elmer Harold Peterson	Yes
60	Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr.	Yes
61	James Teel Porter	Yes
62	Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr.	Yes
63	Francis Albert Riley	Yes
64	Hugh Raynor Rimmer	Yes
65	A. B. Roberts	Yes
66	James Ernest Rowe	Yes
67	Philip Shoenthal	Yes
68	George Maurice Sisk	Yes
69	Joe Lewis Spratt	Yes
70	Harold William St. Clair	Yes
71	Arthur Lemmie Stanton	Yes
72	Robert Joseph Starace	Yes
73	John Henry Stephenson	Yes
74	Maurice Crooks Strattan	Yes
75	Earl Richard Tanner	Yes
76	William George Tesser	Yes
77	Paul Raymond Tomich	Yes
78	Charles Edward Traynor	Yes
79	Theodore Taylor Walker	Yes
80	Elmer Weisenfluh	Yes
81	James Donald Welch	Yes
82	Richard Albert West	Yes
83	Wesley Joseph Willans	Yes
84	Leslie Allan Wilmott	Yes
85	David Robert Wood	Yes

In some sources, Sylvester Martin Wright, Steward's Mate, Second Class, is listed as being lost with his shipmates. Records in the National Archives show that he was transferred off the boat on October 28, 1944, immediately before she was lost. He is not listed in NARA, Navy Casualty, DPAA, ABMC, nor on the COMSUBPAC page. Source: individual personnel files, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, and muster rolls of USS Albacore. He served on LST-221 after the War. Origin of discrepancy (86) found in Sub Losses (1946 and 1963, although he is not listed in 1949) and in Christley, who mistakenly included Sylvester M(artin) Wright.

*Previously, this page listed Roy Edgar Davis as an Albacore crew member. Research has shown that Ray Ellis Davis was the man who was lost with his shipmates on Albacore.

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The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Albacore (SS-218) to the State of Oregon.

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