On Eternal Patrol - USS Capelin (SS-289)

USS Capelin (SS-289)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Capelin (SS-289). The records of two men, R. C. Rhimann and D. T. Smith, have not been verified. If you have any information on these men, please contact us.

The date and location of the loss of this vessel are approximate, since no definitive information is yet available.

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 Capelin.

Also, please see the Eternal Patrol USS Capelin SS-289 Facebook page for family members of the crew, created by David Marshall, grandson of the Commanding Officer.

	Name	Photo
1	Buford Young Arney	Yes
2	Clarence Monroe Ball	Yes
3	Claude Iziah Beck, Jr.	Yes
4	Gerald Ralph Blair	Yes
5	Perry Carr Bragg	Yes
6	Richard Lindsay Britton	Yes
7	Ellis Samuel Brown, Jr.	Yes
8	Marcy Horner Butler	Yes
9	Foster Thomas Callahan	Yes
10	John Joseph Callahan, Jr.	Yes
11	Joseph Peter Cavanaugh	Yes
12	Earl Cheatham	Yes
13	Everett Ray Clifford	Yes
14	Charles William Colyer	Yes
15	Joe Lawrence Cross	Yes
16	James David Crowley	Yes
17	Charles Francis DeFreytas	Yes
18	William Francis Devine	Yes
19	William John Devine	Yes
20	Paul Lee Dill	Yes
21	Lester Theodore Eklund	Yes
22	Charles Lowell Everhart	Yes
23	John Francis Ganley, Jr.	Yes
24	Phillip Jearold Gillen	Yes
25	Peter Grabnickas	Yes
26	Melvin Jay Hicks	Yes
27	James Wilson Holt, Jr.	Needed
28	Dick Jacobs	Yes
29	Loyle Oliver Keaton	Yes
30	Denver Guy Kennedy, Jr.	Yes
31	Isidore Irving Klein	Yes
32	John Walter Koziol	Yes
33	Eugene James Krall	Yes
34	William Alfred Lafferty	Yes
35	Leo Allen Landres	Yes
36	Donald Wallace Lange	Yes
37	Edwin Jack Lester	Yes
38	William Mitchell Lewitt	Yes
39	John Leo Lutley	Yes
40	John Wesley Maddox	Yes
41	Alfred Madey	Yes
42	Elliot Eugene Marshall	Yes
43	William Barton Mason, Jr.	Yes
44	George Robert Melvin	Yes
45	Otto Frederick Moeller	Yes
46	Henry Frank Morgan	Yes
47	Elmer Andrew Norris	Needed
48	Cyril Robert Novotny	Yes
49	Melvin Bernard O'Donnell	Yes
50	Stanley Roderick Olsen	Yes
51	Thomas Earl O'Neal	Yes
52	Clinton Frank O'Neil	Yes
53	Finon Perry	Needed
54	Herman Elroy Pettigrew, Jr.	Yes
55	William Norwood Pilkinton	Yes
56	Richard Powell	Needed
57	William Edward Raminski	Yes
58	John Edgar Rhodes, Jr.	Yes
59	Claude William Roberts	Yes
60	Edward Dunbar Robertson	Yes
61	Walter Allen Sharer	Yes
62	Harry Simon	Yes
63	Leon Clinton Smith	Yes
64	Robert Lowell Smith	Yes
65	Edward John Smolenski	Yes
66	Norman William Snyder	Yes
67	Walter William Stasik	Yes
68	Erwin Henry Steege	Yes
69	Robert Glenn Stickle	Yes
70	Robert William Terrell	Yes
71	Jerry Louis Thibeault	Yes
72	Roy Charles Uhlmann	Yes
73	Curtis Lisbon Vassar, Jr.	Yes
74	Charles Wesley Vaughan	Needed
75	Ernest Eugene Wellman	Yes
76	Herman Henry Winkler, Jr.	Yes

Records for two additional men, R. C. Rhimann and D. T. Smith, are unverified. Please contact us if you have any information on these men.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Capelin (SS-289)

to the State of New Hampshire.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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