On Eternal Patrol - USS Herring (SS-233)

USS Herring (SS-233)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Herring (SS-233). If you are a relative or a friend of any man lost on this boat, please contact us. Also, if you are interested in our efforts to establish a permanent memorial for the men of USS Herring on the island of Matsua, near the site of the loss of the vessel, please contact us.

Please note: There have been unverified reports of an object assumed to be a submarine found in a survey conducted off Matsua in June, 2017. We will continue to follow any and all information on possible searches for the vessel.

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 Herring.

	Name	Photo
1	Fred Harvey Anderson	Yes
2	John Leonard Anderson, Jr.	Yes
3	James Elbert Armstrong	Yes
4	Salvatore Balestrieri	Yes
5	Jack Lee Blair	Needed
6	J. T. Blevins	Yes
7	Leo Joseph Boucher	Yes
8	James Joseph Brennan	Yes
9	John Jack Bronder	Yes
10	Weldon Junior Brown	Yes
11	Timothy Burkett	Yes
12	Charles E. Burton	Yes
13	Nathaniel Campbell	Needed
14	Malcolm Dillard Carroll	Yes
15	Robert Allan Carter	Yes
16	Robert Joseph Chouinard	Yes
17	Raymond Walter Christopherson	Yes
18	John Norvin Compton	Yes
19	Arnold Jerome Cook	Yes
20	Edward Paul Cunningham	Yes
21	Henry Lester Cushion	Yes
22	James Ray Dawkins	Yes
23	Robert Earl Devenport	Yes
24	Franklin Kenneth Edginton	Yes
25	William John Eitelbach, Jr.	Yes
26	George William French	Yes
27	Donald Russell Gagnon	Yes
28	James LeRoy Gregory	Yes
29	Charles George Groshens	Yes
30	Clifford Henry Grote	Yes
31	Armand Alois Guerra	Yes
32	Paul Blaney Harper	Yes
33	Robert Gerald Haskell	Yes
34	Billy Glen Hill	Needed
35	William Anthony Hofman	Yes
36	Lawrence Harvey Isbell	Yes
37	John Martin Johnson	Yes
38	Laurel Kenneth Johnson	Yes
39	Samuel Loy Johnson, Jr.	Yes
40	Louis Hill Jones*	Yes
41	Earl Albert Kelley	Yes
42	Michael Frank Kostal, Jr.	Yes
43	Edward Lawrence Leahy, Jr.	Yes
44	Warren Edwin Lewis	Yes
45	Rex Henry Loftis	Yes
46	Robert Lawrence Mack	Yes
47	Wilbur Jerome Mason	Yes
48	John Burns Mayes	Yes
49	John William McCreary, Jr.	Needed
50	Willie Raderick McLendon	Yes
51	Joel Atwood Merriman, Jr.	Yes
52	Robert Scott Millis	Yes
53	Gordon Richard Mitchell	Yes
54	Herbert Barnes Much	Yes
55	Lester Odom	Yes
56	Harry Joseph O'Howell	Yes
57	Robert Edgar Payne	Yes
58	Gabriel Joseph Pepera	Yes
59	James Gordon Perkins	Yes
60	Carl Eugene Poland	Yes
61	Omer Paul Potvin	Yes
62	William Bright Pressnall	Yes
63	Sone Herbert Price	Yes
64	Charles Edward Riley	Yes
65	Donald Leroy Robbins	Yes
66	Emerson Everett Rockwell	Yes
67	Donald Edwin Ryan	Needed
68	Andrey Harold Saarm	Yes
69	Charles Augustus Schmidt	Yes
70	William Kenneth Smiley	Needed
71	William Stern	Yes
72	Robert Ray Stoneking	Yes
73	James Arthur Sutherland	Yes
74	Frederick Allen Swanson	Yes
75	Allan Wilson Twigg	Yes
76	Van Harlan VanMatre	Yes
77	Leroy Moroney Vreeland	Yes
78	George Edward Wagoner	Yes
79	Carman Duncan Walker	Yes
80	John Robert Walsh	Yes
81	Kenneth Karl Way	Yes
82	Howard Ray Wilson	Yes
83	Elmer Christian Wuertele	Yes
84	David Zabriskie, Jr.	Yes

*Louis Hill Jones died in non-sinking event.

Note: Research clearly shows that Herring crew member Clyde D. Fleming was not aboard the boat on her final patrol. He transferred off Herring on 20 May 1944, and survived the War. He was serving on USS Louisville (CA-28) when the War ended, and served on numerous other vessels in the Navy until at least 1954. He is not listed in NARA, Navy Casualty, DPAA, ABMC, or on the COMSUBPAC page. Sources: muster rolls of USS Herring and USS Louisville. He died on 11 March 1993. Origin of discrepancy (84 men lost with the boat, not including Louis Hill Jones) found in Sub Losses (1946 and 1963), and in Christley.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Herring (SS-233)

to the State of Alabama.

Herring Memorial Plaque
Plaque overlooking site of Herring's loss at Point Tagan, Matsuwa Island, Kuriles.
Photo courtesy of Evgeniy Vereschaga.

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