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USS Grayback (SS-208)

 

The wreck of USS Grayback was recently discovered in 1,400 feet of water off Okinawa, Japan, by an exploration team led by Tim Taylor.  Please contact us if you are related to anyone who served on Grayback. Also see Lost 52 Project.

See the Submarine Discoveries page for information on the discovery of the wreck of this vessel.

The following men were lost while serving on USS Grayback (SS-208). 

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.

A special thanks to Larry Gavlak, nephew of Grayback's Charles Bernard Gavlik, who provided many photos of his uncle's shipmates.

For a brief history of the boat, please see The Loss of USS Grayback.

 
  Name Photo
1

Stanley Henry Bangert

 Yes
2

Harold Xen Barbour

 Yes
3

James Edgar Barnett

 Yes
4

Frederick Richard Bell

 Yes
5

James Wesley Bennett

 Yes
6

Robert Philip Blanan

 Yes
7

Ralph Bloodsworth

 Yes

8

Forrest Lyddle Boyer

 Yes
9

James Lester Brandt

 Yes

10

William Jack Brasch

 Yes
11

Thaddeus Bukowski

 Yes
12

Wilbur Edward Campbell

 Yes
13

Ross Lillard Capshaw

 Yes
14

Robert Emmett Carey

 Yes
15

Henry Lawrence Case

 Yes
16

James Nick Chotas

 Yes
17

Fred Martin Coburn

 Yes

18

Lee Roy Cox

 Yes
19

Marshall Ray Davidson

 Yes

20

Vance Edward Davis

 Yes
21

James Ray Dodson

 Yes
22

George Ralph Ferry, Jr.

 Yes
23

Clifton Eugene Fieber

 Yes
24

Carleton Francis Fielding

 Yes
25

Joseph R. Forsythe, Jr.

 Yes
26

Jack Dewey Forward*

 Yes

27

Kenneth Winfield Fox, Jr.

 Yes
28

Milton Lawrence Francis

 Yes
29

Charles Bernard Gavlak

 Yes
30

Marshall Lee George

 Yes
31

Bernardino Gildo

 Yes
32

John Henry Gray

 Yes

33

Frederick Ansley Hall

 Yes
34

Alfred Sander Halpert

 Yes
35

Earl Eugene Halvorson

 Yes
36

Lester Irving Handlowich

 Yes
37

Robert Vernon Hansen

 Yes
38

Theodore Hefler

 Yes
39

Richard Beverly Hitch

 Yes

40

Frederick Charles Holzmann, Jr.

 Yes

41

William Carson Hooks

 Yes
42

Albert Hrudka

 Yes
43

Robert Angelo Irizarry

 Yes

44

August Norbert Jackson

 Yes

45

Lee Francis Jacobs

 Yes

46

Francis Robert James

 Yes

47

James Acton Jones

 Yes

48

John Patrick King

 Yes
49

Harry Theodore Knops

 Yes

50

Walter Allan Koller

 Yes

51

Raymond Edward LaRiviere

 Yes

52

Leslie Harold Leaf

 Yes
53

Robert Orval Littlejohn

 Yes
54

Douglas Henry Norman Lockyer

 Yes

55

Raymond Leon Mayo

 Yes

56

Franklin Hotchkiss McKelvey

 Yes

57

Frederick William Herman Meyer

 Yes
58

Louis Joseph Meyers

 Yes

59

John Anderson Moore

 Yes
60

William Gerard Nicholson

 Yes

61

James Thomas Northam

 Yes

62

Thomas Francis O'Meara

 Yes
63

Raymond Anthony Parks

 Yes
64

Melvin Clyde Phillips

 Yes
65

Alfred Pinho, Jr.

 Yes

66

Wilbur Lee Ralston

 Yes
67

Vincent Murry Rauber

 Yes
68

Vicente Unpingco Rivera

 Yes

69

William Charles Roy, II

 Yes
70

George Kane Schellinger

 Yes
71

Edward Francis Sessler

 Yes
72

Ralph Theodore Shaw

 Yes
73

Isauro Victor Silveira

 Yes
74

Carthel Hill Smith, Jr.

 Yes
75 Sidney Solomon  Yes
76 August Henry Southern  Yes
77 Lee Carroll Stanford  Yes
78 Jesse Hamilton Stewart  Yes
79 Robert Edward Stockman  Yes
80 Stanley Joseph Waliszewski  Yes
81 John Clinton Wyatt  Yes

*Killed in non-sinking event.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Grayback (SS-208)

to the State of Indiana.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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