On Eternal Patrol - Pre-WWII Losses

On Eternal Patrol - Submariners Prior to World War II

Raising of USS Squalus

First raising of USS Squalus

The following is a listing of over 140 personal memorial pages on this site for the over 230 men who were lost on American submarines prior to World War II. Eventually, every man will have his own page.

Specifically, these are men who lost their lives while serving in the U.S. Submarine Force in the period from the year 1900 up to December 7, 1941. Almost none of the submariners who died in this period were lost as a direct result of enemy action.

For information arranged by the name of the vessel, please view the listing of submarines that sustained losses prior to World War II. There is also an "Additional Losses" page for listings of men were lost during this period while serving on vessels that were not sunk.

Photographs and personal information are lacking for many of our pre-WWII losses.

	Name	Photo
	Howard Joseph Abbott	Yes
	James Andrew Aitken	Needed
	Ignacio Arbozo	Needed
	George T. Ashcroft	Yes
	Marvin D. Barry	Needed
	John James Batick	Needed
	John Robert Belt	Needed
	Paul Daniel Berk	Needed
	Frank Matthew Bernard	Needed
	Clarence F. Bethke	Needed
	Walter Bishop	Yes
	Earl W. Boone	Needed
	Henry H. Brown	Needed
	Clark George Buck	Yes
	Charles F. Burrell	Yes
	Charles Beresford Calcott	Yes
	William Franklin Callaway	Yes
	W. R. Cannady	Needed
	William Lester Cartwright	Needed
	Joshua Casey	Needed
	Elmer L. Cash	Needed
	Ralph Edward Cassidy	Needed
	Earnest C. Cauvin	Yes
	John Allan Chesnutt	Yes
	Earle Wayne Freed Childs	Needed
	Guy H. Clark, Jr.	Needed
	Robert Lyle Coffey	Yes
	Harley Colwell	Yes
	Harry Le Roy Corson	Needed
	Walter F. Covington	Yes
	Russell A. Crabb	Needed
	Henry Lee Crawford	Yes
	William T. Crute	Needed
	Jesse Mellon Currie	Needed
	B. A. Davis	Needed
	Elvin Leon Deal	Needed
	Vergil Dean	Needed
	George L. Deeth	Yes
	William Dempsey	Needed
	R. W. Difenbach	Needed
	Rodney H. Dobson	Yes
	John E. Dreffin	Needed
	John E. Dufresne	Needed
	Charles L. Eagleton	Needed
	Allen Clifford Earle	Needed
	Alfred Lewis Ede	Yes
	John H. Edwards	Needed
	Edmund Webster Egbert	Yes
	Harry D. Elser	Needed
	John J. Fenell	Needed
	Rudy Firm	Needed
	Graham Newell Fitch	Yes
	Lionel Hugh Fletcher	Needed
	Charles A. Ford	Yes
	Herbert Talmage Fost	Yes
	Edward G. Foster	Needed
	Frederic David Foster	Yes
	James G. Fowler	Needed
	Daniel M. Galvin	Yes
	Robert A. Gardner	Needed
	Kenneth Ross Garrison	Needed
	Zanville Gartner	Needed
	N. Gerser	Needed
	Robert Franklin Gibbs	Needed
	John Law Gibson	Needed
	James G. Gillies	Needed
	Frederick Gilman	Yes
	Turner Ashby Glascock	Yes
	Donald F. Goering	Needed
	Francis H. Golden	Needed
	James Goonan	Needed
	Simon Greenberg	Needed
	F. A. Griffith	Needed
	Aliston H. Grindle	Yes
	Francis L. Gruen	Needed
	Edward M. Guerrero	Needed
	Francis J. Gunn	Needed
	Peder Haaland	Needed
	Norman Joseph Habel	Yes
	Edward Emerson Hall	Needed
	Dewey Victor Haney	Yes
	Buster Harris	Needed
	Joe A. Hartzog	Needed
	James Dudley Haselden, Jr.	Yes
	John Plesent Hathaway	Needed
	Arnold G. Henderson	Needed
	Gaddis Irwin Hendy	Needed
	Frank N. Herzog	Yes
	Edwin S. Hill	Yes
	Valentine Hiltbolt	Needed
	Ira Dell Hixon	Needed
	Aaron A. Hodges	Needed
	Arthur F. Hodges	Needed
	Eugene Arthur Hoffman	Yes
	John H. Hoffman	Needed
	Otho Hopewell	Needed
	Francis M. Hughson	Yes
	Franklin Pierce James	Needed
	Walter J. Jaskowiak	Needed
	Albert F. Jennie	Yes
	Roy K. Jones	Yes
	William C. Kaufman	Needed
	Alexander Biggs Keegan	Yes
	Paul R. Kemper	Needed
	Doyle Kervin	Needed
	Levitt E. Krueger	Needed
	Joseph Anthony Kunz	Needed
	Harold Holden Lang	Needed
	Walter Edward Lawton	Needed
	Royal Allen Leese	Needed
	Herman N. Ley	Needed
	Brady Domono Lindsay	Needed
	Allan H. Littleford	Needed
	Joseph Logan	Needed
	J. H. Long	Needed
	Lyman Frederick Lovley	Needed
	Archie H. Lunger	Yes
	Ivan L. Mahan	Yes
	Arnold Marcus	Yes
	John Joseph Marino	Needed
	George Henry Martin	Needed
	Theodore F. May	Needed
	Huie King McAfee	Yes
	John Joseph McCarthy	Needed
	Ralph Edgar McClure	Needed
	Joseph Alfred McGinley	Yes
	Duncan Archie McRae	Needed
	John Peter Albert Messang	Needed
	Grover Edwin Metz	Needed
	Chester L. Miller	Needed
	Oscar Joseph Milot	Needed
	Frank Lester Mims	Needed
	Horace L. Moore	Yes
	William S. Nelson	Yes
	Robert S. Noble	Yes
	Fred H. O'Shields	Needed
	Emile A. Ouelette	Needed
	Timothy Albert Parker	Yes
	Joseph Hester Patterson	Yes
	James H. Peck	Needed
	George Pelham	Needed
	Frank C. Pierard	Yes
	Harlow Milton Pino	Yes
	John J. Powers	Yes
	Alfred Charles Priester	Yes
	Rudolph J. Rose	Needed
	F. P. Schneider	Needed
	James Marland Schofield	Needed
	Gustave Schroeder	Needed
	Frank Henry Schulte	Needed
	John P. Schultz	Needed
	Ray Elsworth Scott	Needed
	Bascom Slemp Scyphers	Needed
	Roy B. Seaber	Needed
	A. E. Seaton	Needed
	William Joseph Sharkey	Yes
	Frank Archibald Shea	Needed
	John Joseph Shehan	Needed
	Clarence B. Shepherd	Yes
	Sherman Luther Shirley	Yes
	Roger L. Short	Yes
	Augustus Alexander Smith	Needed
	Don Smith	Needed
	Elbert Peshine Smith	Needed
	Frank Snizek	Yes
	Herbert Eadleman Snyder	Needed
	Sam E. Sonnenburg	Needed
	Frank A. Spaulsberg	Needed
	T. W. Sternman	Yes
	Joseph Leighton Stevens	Yes
	Guy Raymond Stewart	Needed
	Dudley Stough	Needed
	James E. Strang	Needed
	C. B. Strange	Needed
	Jack John Strong	Needed
	Joseph G. Supple	Needed
	Mariano Tedah	Needed
	Frederick Peter Teschemacher	Needed
	William Charles Teschemacher	Needed
	John Laurise Thomala	Needed
	Charles Carrol Thomas	Needed
	Carl H. Thompson	Needed
	Robert Preson Thompson	Needed
	Thomas W. Tilliery, Jr.	Needed
	Walter R. Tolson	Needed
	Steven Hartley Treffitt	Needed
	George Arthur Trever	Needed
	James Turbett	Needed
	Sidney D. Uhlic	Needed
	Earl F. Varner	Needed
	Bernard J. Venhaus	Needed
	Charles Fridley Vincent	Needed
	Marks P. Wangsness	Yes
	Marion Lawrence Ward	Needed
	James Reid Webb	Needed
	Robert Ross Weld	Needed
	Donald Weller	Yes
	Charles H. Wells	Yes
	Horace Elmer Whitaker	Needed
	James J. White	Needed
	Robert Holland Willis	Needed
	Frank Collins Wiseman	Needed
	Henry A. Withers	Yes
	William C. Wolf	Needed
	Charles M. Wood	Needed
	Clyde William Wyatt	Needed

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