On Eternal Patrol - USS Growler (SS-215)

USS Growler (SS-215)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Growler (SS-215).

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 Growler.

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

	Name	Photo
1	John Henry Abel	Yes
2	Howard Warren Archer	Needed
3	Hermas Conrad Baker	Yes
4	Troy Martin Beatty	Yes
5	William Vincent Bergfeld	Yes
6	Harold Harvey Blackston	Yes
7	William Dawson Booker	Yes
8	Charles Russell Boone	Yes
9	Robert Stuart Bridge	Yes
10	William Kenneth Carr	Yes
11	Robert Louis Chamblin, Jr.	Yes
12	LaVerne Charles Clark	Yes
13	Bennie Cleveland	Yes
14	Gordon Byxbe Dallman	Yes
15	John Archibald Darby	Yes
16	Gilbert Pryor Daughtrey	Yes
17	Ferdinand Edison Dawson	Yes
18	Alexander Louis Durand, Jr.	Yes
19	Roland DeWitt Erikson	Yes
20	Alexander Ferrario	Yes
21	Willie Flippens	Needed
22	Clarence Edwan Fredman, Jr.	Yes
23	Albert Joseph Fryer	Yes
24	Harry Alexander George	Yes
25	Howard Walter Gilmore*	Yes
26	Walter Madden Gregory	Yes
27	Robert Edward Hakanson	Yes
28	Robert Harris	Yes
29	Harry Frank Heald	Yes
30	Warren Edmund Hedrick	Yes
31	William Christopher Hickey, Jr.	Yes
32	Ralph Edwin Hope	Yes
33	Albert Michael Jacobs	Yes
34	Euin Melborn Jenes**	Yes
35	Gordon Ward Jewett	Yes
36	Lloyd Stanley Johnson	Yes
37	Harry Anthony Kaczmarek	Yes
38	Wilbert Fletcher Kelley*	Yes
39	Donald Joseph Kuba	Yes
40	Roy Stuart Laderman	Needed
41	Robert Ephraim Lane, Jr.	Yes
42	Melvin Putman Leveille	Yes
43	Ernest Peter Lorio	Needed
44	Garrett Lynch, Jr.	Yes
45	John Hobert Maddux	Yes
46	Lloyd Bronzia Maness	Yes
47	Wallace Seth Manning	Yes
48	Richard Keeble Mason, Jr.	Yes
49	John Joseph McLaughlin	Needed
50	Louis Robert McMullen	Yes
51	Curtis Maurice Melancon	Yes
52	Alfred Metzler	Yes
53	Dale Clarence Miller	Needed
54	Arthur Joseph Minkle, Jr.	Yes
55	William Morrison	Yes
56	Bernard Natov	Yes
57	Norman Wilfrid Naylor	Yes
58	Charles Fredrick Nixon	Yes
59	Thomas Benjamin Oakley, Jr.	Yes
60	Louis Richard Orth	Yes
61	Albert Donald Owen	Yes
62	Johnnie Padilla	Needed
63	Henry Robert Parus, Jr.	Yes
64	Raymond Joseph Picard	Yes
65	Eugene Wallace Post	Yes
66	Charles Henry Ratnecht	Yes
67	Edgar Perry Read	Yes
68	Henry Edward Rhodes	Yes
69	Eugene Wilson Rothenberger	Yes
70	Kurt George Schulz	Yes
71	Paul Sebestyen, Jr.	Yes
72	Clark Oliver Shay	Yes
73	David Garrett Simmons	Yes
74	Walter Donald Smith	Yes
75	Walter Lewis Smith	Yes
76	Nicola Luca Stevanovich, Jr.	Yes
77	Steven Joseph Stoiner	Yes
78	James Wesley Stubblefield	Yes
79	Carl Francis Suba	Yes
80	Joel A. Tanner	Yes
81	Donald Thomas Thigpen	Yes
82	Francis Pugh Thomas	Yes
83	Harold Eugene Thompson	Yes
84	Rena Bernard Tullier	Yes
85	Paul Frederick Vail	Yes
86	Ralph Vecere	Yes
87	Roy Douglas Welch, Jr.	Yes
88	Richard Louis Weterings	Yes
89	William Wadsworth Williams*	Yes
90	Carl Allen Workman	Yes

Note that Harold Eugene Thompson is mistakenly omitted in some sources, notably in the 1946 and 1963 editions of U.S. Submarine Losses - World War II. He is correcly listed in the 1949 edition. Sources: individual personnel file, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Navy Casualty, DPAA, and War Dead listings, and muster rolls of USS Growler.

*Killed in action in non-sinking event.
**Died in non-sinking event.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Growler (SS-215)

to the State of Hawaii.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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