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.

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	Fred Harvey Anderson	Yes
2	John Leonard Anderson, Jr.	Needed
3	James Elbert Armstrong	Yes
4	Salvatore Balestrieri	Yes
5	Jack Lee Blair	Needed
6	J. T. Blevins	Needed
7	Leo Joseph Boucher	Needed
8	James Joseph Brennan	Yes
9	John Jack Bronder	Needed
10	Weldon Junior Brown	Needed
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	Needed
17	Raymond Walter Christopherson	Yes
18	John Norvin Compton	Needed
19	Arnold Jerome Cook	Needed
20	Edward Paul Cunningham	Needed
21	Henry Lester Cushion	Yes
22	James Ray Dawkins	Yes
23	Robert Earl Devenport	Yes
24	Franklin Kenneth Edginton	Needed
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	Needed
31	Armand Alois Guerra	Yes
32	Paul Blaney Harper	Needed
33	Robert Gerald Haskell	Needed
34	Billy Glen Hill	Needed
35	William Anthony Hofman	Needed
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	Needed
42	Michael Frank Kostal, Jr.	Needed
43	Edward Lawrence Leahy, Jr.	Needed
44	Warren Edwin Lewis	Needed
45	Rex Henry Loftis	Needed
46	Robert Lawrence Mack	Needed
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.	Needed
52	Robert Scott Millis	Yes
53	Gordon Richard Mitchell	Needed
54	Herbert Barnes Much	Needed
55	Lester Odom	Needed
56	Harry Joseph O'Howell	Needed
57	Robert Edgar Payne	Needed
58	Gabriel Joseph Pepera	Needed
59	James Gordon Perkins	Needed
60	Carl Eugene Poland	Needed
61	Omer Paul Potvin	Yes
62	William Bright Pressnall	Needed
63	Sone Herbert Price	Needed
64	Charles Edward Riley	Needed
65	Donald Leroy Robbins	Yes
66	Emerson Everett Rockwell	Yes
67	Donald Edwin Ryan	Needed
68	Andrey Harold Saarm	Needed
69	Charles Augustus Schmidt	Needed
70	William Kenneth Smiley	Needed
71	William Stern	Yes
72	Robert Ray Stoneking	Needed
73	James Arthur Sutherland	Needed
74	Frederick Allen Swanson	Needed
75	Allan Wilson Twigg	Needed
76	Van Harlan VanMatre	Yes
77	Leroy Moroney Vreeland	Needed
78	George Edward Wagoner	Yes
79	Carman Duncan Walker	Needed
80	John Robert Walsh	Yes
81	Kenneth Karl Way	Needed
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 indicates that Herring crew member Clyde D. Fleming was not aboard the boat on her final patrol, and survived the War.

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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