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USS S-28 (SS-133)

On 3 July 1944, she began training operations off Oahu with the Coast Guard cutter RELIANCE (WSC-150). The antisubmarine warfare exercises continued into the evening of the 4th. At 1730, the day's concluding exercise began. Contact between the two became sporadic and, at 1820, the last, brief contact with S-28 was made and lost. All attempts to establish communications failed. Assistance arrived from Pearl Harbor, but a thorough search of the area failed to locate the submarine. Two days later, a diesel oil slick appeared in the area where she had been operating, but the extreme depth exceeded the range of available equipment. A Court of Inquiry was unable to determine the cause of the loss of S-28.

F2 E.F Anderson

BM2 James I Appling

GM3 James K Bennett Jr.

SM1 Levi Bolton

MoMM2 Hugh D Brown

S2 John F Brown

TM2 Howard M Bullard

EM3 Rudolph F Buzek

LCDR(CO) Jack H Campbell

MoMM3 Arthur G Chapman

F1 J.L Connell

LTjg Claude W Covington

EM3 Gene A Cox

F2 John F Durant

F1 Donald A Durkee

QM3 E.W Gardner

MoMM2 J.D Garza

MoMM3 C.H Gerbensky

MoMM3 John Gresswell Jr.

MoMM1 John R Haney

ENS R.F Harsma

ENS H.L Hester

S2 Leonard E Highfill

MoMM1 Norbert J.W Hizer

MoMM3 Neal K Johnson

MoMM2 Keithe Keirn

S1 A.J Kunkel Jr.

PhM1 Steve Likevich Jr.

ENS Robert Madsen

PhM2 J.F McGuinness

RM3 Marvin R McMillan

RT3 Robert T McNeela

SM1 Chester M Moffitt

F1 Edward J Morrison

LTjg Charles E Nelson

GM3 W Nottage

MoMM3 D.M Ouderkirk

MoMM2 George V Peet

EM1 John F Purcell

TM3 George R Runnels

EM3 Joseph J Salerno

MoMM2 Earle C Schreier

SC2 Frank S Smith

S2 J.W Spradley

CK2 Jake Spurlock

E Vaughn

MoMM1 Walter J Weis

MoMM2 Walter T Whitted

RM3 Alexander W Wolf

F1 Kenneth A Wortz