On Eternal Patrol - USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Gudgeon (SS-211). If you are a relative or friend of a man lost on this boat, please see Mike Ostlund's Find 'Em Chase 'Em Sink 'Em website. Mike's book of the same title, published by The Lyon's Press, is now available through booksellers such as Amazon.com.

A note regarding the entries under "Loss Date," "Location," and "Circumstances" for USS Gudgeon as shown on these individuals' pages: according to Ostlund's research, the boat was probably sunk in an air attack off Iwo Jima on April 18, 1944. This information used here for all men who were aboard Gudgeon when she was lost.

Men who are linked to a personal page on this site are in blue text. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right.

	Name	Photo
1	Oscar Allen Abbott	Needed
2	William Ankeny	Yes
3	James Robert Ball	Yes
4	Milton Paul Barrett	Yes
5	Paul Harris Birchfield	Yes
6	James Henry Blessing	Needed
7	Robert Alexander Bonin	Yes
8	John George Bossong	Needed
9	James Ralph Carney	Yes
10	Richard Osborne Christian	Needed
11	James William Sylvester Coghlan	Yes
12	Robert Cope Collins	Yes
13	Charles Bracher Copeland, Jr.	Needed
14	Glenn Estol Crandall	Needed
15	Ben Willis Dickenson	Yes
16	Everett Harold Dodson	Yes
17	Jeremiah Patrick Donovan	Needed
18	John Willard Evans	Needed
19	Albert Raymond Everhart	Yes
20	Wayne Edward Feikert	Needed
21	Ambrosio Fernandez	Needed
22	Jack Alison Fournier	Needed
23	Howard Owen Garrett	Yes
24	Edward Charles Gaughan	Yes
25	Karl Louis Hammond	Yes
26	Lambert George Hegerfeld	Yes
27	William Richard Henry	Yes
28	Elijah Clinton Hensley	Yes
29	Burton Laurence Heyes	Yes
30	Riley Monroe Hitt	Yes
31	Robert Edwin Hughart	Yes
32	Donald Wayne Keller	Needed
33	Norman Charles Keller	Yes
34	Stephen Kohut	Yes
35	Kenneth Paul Krueger	Needed
36	Leonard Albert Langdale	Yes
37	George William Lefferts, Jr.	Yes
38	Rodney John Lewis	Needed
39	David Bennett McCorquodale	Yes
40	John Richard McKenna	Yes
41	James William McLallen	Needed
42	Wallace Frank McNicol	Yes
43	Lester Lavern Metzger	Needed
44	Donald Raymond Midgley	Yes
45	Arthur Howard Miller*	Needed
46	Earl Morris	Needed
47	William Joseph Murphy	Yes
48	Harry Clark Nickel	Yes
49	Malcolm Partlow Norris	Needed
50	Harry Frederick Orfila	Needed
51	William Conrad Ostlund	Yes
52	Herbert Fredric Patriquin	Yes
53	Thomas Edgar Patterson	Yes
54	George Harvey Penland, Jr.*	Yes
55	Francis John Pieniadz	Needed
56	John Andrew Piller	Yes
57	Addison Boyd Pinkley	Yes
58	John Macon Powles	Needed
59	William Daniel Remaley	Needed
60	Jerome Richard Rice	Needed
61	William Joseph Sennewald	Yes
62	Milton AuMont Sewell	Needed
63	Lynwood Shults	Yes
64	Robert Paul Simon	Needed
65	William Harold Sponheimer	Needed
66	Owen Joseph Sullivan	Needed
67	Paul Westley Swinson	Needed
68	Robert Hansen Taylor	Needed
69	Samuel Henry Taylor	Needed
70	Clarence Frank Thomas	Yes
71	Harold Eugene Updike	Needed
72	Frederick Ethelbert Van Norden	Yes
73	Norman Vance	Needed
74	Joel McGee Walker, Jr.	Yes
75	Harold Ambrose Waters	Needed
76	George Junior Watson	Needed
77	Earl Anderson Webster, Jr.	Needed
78	Thomas Jordon White	Yes
79	Joseph Whitelow	Needed
80	Wesley Willard Worthington, Jr.	Needed
81	Charles Austin Zimmerman, Jr.	Needed

*Killed in non-sinking events on board.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

to the State of New Jersey.

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