On Eternal Patrol - USS Shark (SS-174)

USS Shark (SS-174)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Shark (SS-174).

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 Shark (SS-174).

	Name	Photo
1	Theodore Allen Bellard	Yes
2	Walter Raleigh Blanchard	Needed
3	John Alden Bolton	Yes
4	Thomas Leo Brannan	Needed
5	Grady G. Byus, Jr.	Yes
6	Earl William Cassidy	Yes
7	John Paul Cooley	Needed
8	Billy Brant Crawford	Yes
9	Albert Edward Croft	Needed
10	William Thomas Dawson	Yes
11	Edwin Denby, Jr.	Yes
12	Roscoe Franklin Dillen, Jr.	Yes
13	Paulino Ejaype	Yes
14	Roland Ashby Estes	Yes
15	Ferdinand Alois Evans	Yes
16	Truman Floyd Evans	Yes
17	Agapito Fabra	Needed
18	Fred Howell Farrell	Yes
19	Albert David Fruit	Needed
20	Merrill Ray Gilman	Yes
21	Pedro Gimenez*	Needed
22	Lawrence Carlton Glass	Yes
23	James Andrew Iverson	Yes
24	Romie Lloyd Jeffreys	Yes
25	James Edward Johnston	Yes
26	Clifford Earl Jones	Needed
27	Jesse Augustus Lester	Yes
28	William Charles Lidgerding	Needed
29	Thomas Phillip Loughlin	Yes
30	Arnold Raymond Lund	Yes
31	Loran Robert Markin	Yes
32	Rex Edgar McElroy	Yes
33	Kenneth Ernest McKinney	Yes
34	Robert Francis Miller, Jr.**	Yes
35	Arthur Patrick Moran	Yes
36	Fred Joseph Morris	Yes
37	Warren Hasting Myer	Yes
38	Ermin Joseph Pechacek	Yes
39	Avery Evander Perkins	Needed
40	Robert Lee Pettit	Yes
41	Frank Florestine Philabert, Jr.	Yes
42	Walter Edward Pilgram	Yes***
43	Bennie John Polidori	Needed
44	Karl Lother Sandmann	Yes
45	Henry Louis Schmitt	Needed
46	Louis Shane, Jr.	Yes
47	John Howell Smith	Yes
48	Thayne Charles Smith	Yes
49	Thomas Ponchard Spilman	Yes
50	Robert Houston Stephens	Needed
51	Herman Frederick Striegler	Needed
52	Richard Ridley Thew	Yes
53	Henry Oran Tubre	Yes
54	John Alfred Turoczy	Yes
55	Roland Henry Warren	Yes
56	James Kenneth White	Needed
57	John Murry Worsham	Yes
58	Charles Robert Yanks	Yes
59	Harold Reynold Zeorlin	Yes

*Some sources, notably the 1963 edition of U. S. Submarine Losses - World War II, mistakenly omit Pedro Gimenez from their lists of men lost with USS Shark (SS-174).

**Most sources list name order as "Robert Francis Miller, Jr." However, his birth certificate says "Francis Robert Miller, Jr."

***Photo of Walter is as a baby. Please contact us if you can a photo of him as an adult.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Shark (SS-174)

to the State of Oklahoma.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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