On Eternal Patrol - USS R-12 (SS-89)

USS R-12 (SS-89)

The following men were lost while serving on USS R-12 (SS-89), including two Brazilian naval officers who were on board to observe a torpedo firing exercise.

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	A. G. D. Almeida (Brazilian Navy)	Needed
2	General William Bacon	Needed
3	Robert Burton Bronson	Needed
4	James Joseph Buckley	Needed
5	Frederick Edward Cashell	Needed
6	Howard Livingston Clayton	Needed
7	J. L. DeMoura (Brazilian Navy)	Needed
8	Raymond Francis Flisher	Yes
9	Lenard Earl Garbulsky	Needed
10	Frederick Patrick Graziani, Jr.	Needed
11	Joseph Cyril Hall, Jr.	Yes
12	Elmer Larry Harman, Jr.	Yes
13	James Ulysses Horton	Yes
14	Joseph Stephen Horvath	Yes
15	Howard Herbert Knapp	Needed
16	Everett Samuel Krigbaum	Yes
17	Leland Van Kymer, Jr.	Needed
18	Charles Buddy LeVan	Yes
19	Henry Peter Lobeck	Yes
20	Curtis Virgle Mathis	Yes
21	Paul Ralph McKibben	Yes
22	Joseph Moncada	Needed
23	Albert Jackson Mullis	Yes
24	George William Ness	Needed
25	Paul Louis Noonan	Yes
26	John Henry Rabbitt	Yes
27	Edward John Rafferty	Needed
28	Lyle Edmund Schnake	Needed
29	Craig R. Scott	Needed
30	Howard Russell Secor	Needed
31	Harry Henry Shellenberger	Yes
32	Granby Solomon Smith	Yes
33	Roger Norton Starks	Yes
34	Donald Charles Sullivan	Needed
35	Rudolph Albert Thompson, Jr.	Yes
36	James Donald Unger	Yes
37	Ernest William Vincent	Yes
38	Norman William Walker	Needed
39	Edwin Francis Walsh	Yes
40	Kenneth John Wheeler	Yes
41	Willie Daniel Young	Needed
42	George Arthur Zimmerman	Yes

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS R-12 (SS-89)

to the State of Rhode Island.

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