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Our Honored Dead

Territory of Hawaii - October 16, 1941
Hawaiian Operating Area - Aircraft lost at Sea

William Marion Allee, CRM(AA),      USN
    Corpus Christi, TX

Willard Hendry James, ENS  AV(N),  USNR
    Blackshear, GA

 

Territory of Hawaii - December 7th, 1941
Kaneohe,  N.A.S.  Enemy Aircraft Strafing

Robert Kirk Porterfield,  AMM3   USN
    Bridgeport, OH

 

Territory of Alaska - August 16th, 1942
Dutch Harbor, NAS Kodiak to Whitehorse ---  Aircraft missing enroute to destination

Joseph Alexander Crook,  Lt.         USN
    Jackson, TN

Espiritu Santo Island  - June 22, 1943
New Hebrides - Lost at sea from Aircraft

William Gibb,  ARM2c                   USN
    Glenside, PA

 

San Benito Island, California - July 15th, 1943
Hollister N.A.S.  Operational Aircraft Crash

Maurice John Thorton Lt.  AV(N)    USNR
    Pomeroy, OH

***GREEN ISLAND  Februrary 14th, 1944***
Bismarck Archipelago  Enemy Arial Bomb

Lieut.(jg) Berdett Bernard Berton , USN--Tulsa, Oklahoma

Baynor, John (n) , CMM (AA), USN --- Pasadena, California

Carraway , Kermit Lee , CWT (AA), USN --- San Francisco, California

Rosandich , Joseph Frank, MM1c,USN --- Sacramento, California

Hill, Mark Dewey, MM1c,USN --- Kinston, North Carolina

Null, Edmund Wallace, MM1c,USN --- Eureka, California

Flood, Edwin Warren, MM1c,USN --- Bowling Green, Kentucky

Olson, Wesley Francis,MM2c,USN --- LaGrande, Oregon

Cline, Thomas Russell, MM2c, USN --- Cummings, Kansas

Jennings, Frank Richard, MM2c, USNR --- Los Angeles, California

Churchill, Harold Stuart, MoMM2c, USN  --- Duluth, Minnesota

Freeman, Earl William, Y2c. V6, USNR --- Mt. Carroll, Illinois

Herron, David (N), MM3c, V6, USNR --- Checotah, Oklahoma

Stehman, Donald (N) MM3c, V6s, USNR --- Noblesville, Indiana

Baldwin, John Boyd, MM3c, X6, USNR --- Beaver, Utah

Myer, Urban Earnest, F1/c, USN --- Paragold, Arkansas

Rosbury, Charles William, F2/c, V6, USNR --- Detroit, Michigan

Bryant, James Jefferson, P/2c, USN --- South Gate, California

Gustison, Richard John. F2c, V6, USNR --- Waterloo, Iowa

Shuman, John Monroe, F2c, V6, USNR --- Columbia, Pennsylvania

McDonald, Joe Ben, P2c, V6, USNR --- Walnut Grove, Missouri

McGuffin, William Arnold, F2c, USNR --- Kansas City, Kansas

Kitson, Neil Victor, F2c, V6, USNR --- Keshina, Wisconsin

 

Espiritu Santo Island - March 1st, 1944
New Hebrides  Electrical Accident

Stephen Paul Urbani, CEM            USN
    Royal, PA

 

***"Leyte Gulf"*** November 27th, 1944
Philippine Islands - Kamikaze Attack  

Ensign Sebastian George Vogel, Jr., Av(n).USNR --- Everett, Washington

Barrett, Robert Oren, S1c, V6, USNR --- Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Bowman, Robert Henry, Gm3c, V6, USNR --- Roann, Indiana

Gordon, Wendell Evans, S1c, V6, USNR --- Smiths Grove, Kentucky

Goulson, Vernon Victor, S2c, V6, USNR --- Milan, Minnesota

Griebahn, Donald Ivan, S2c, V6, USNR --- Chicago, Illinois

Janikowski, David Florian, S2c(gm). V6, USNR --- Winona, Minnesota

King, Robert Neal, S2c, V6, USNR --- Clevland, Oklahoma

Lassiter, Eugene Quay. F2c, V6s. USNR --- Coolidge, Arizona

Olsen, Wilmer Ernest, S2c, V6s. USNR --- Puyallup, Washington

O'Neal, Wilson Folis, S1c, V6, USNR --- Scottsville, Kentucky

Powell, John Marshall, Cmm aa). USN --- Richmond, Virginia

Shoemaker, George William, S2c, V6. USNR --- Chattanooga, Tennessee

Whitaker, Herbert, S2c, V65, USNR --- Whitaker, New York

Boyd, Clyde Roe, Arm2c, USN --- Long Beach, California

Butterworth, Lawrence Ray, Gm3c, V6, USNR --- Seattle, Washington

 

Shanghai, China - September 29th, 1945
Huangpu River - Accidental Drowning

Mervyn Richard Miller, S2/c            USNR
    San Francisco, CA

 

At Sea -  November 1st, 1945
En route - Guam to Hawaii - Electrical Accident

Warren Ely Dixon, Jr. RT2/c            USNR
    Cranford, NJ

***May They Rest in Peace***