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USS Albacore (SS-218)

Albacore left Pearl Harbor on 24 October 1944, topped off her fuel tanks at Midway on 28 October, and was never heard from again. According to Japanese records captured after the war, a submarine assumed to be Albacore struck a mine very close to the shore off northeastern Hokkaido on 7 November. A Japanese patrol boat witnessed the explosion of a submerged submarine and saw a great deal of heavy oil, cork, bedding, and food supplies rise to the surface. On 21 December, Albacore was assumed to have been lost. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 30 March 1945.

S1 Walter H. BarberJr.

GM2 Kenneth R. Baumer

ENS Henry F. Bigelow

PhMC Edward R. Blackmon

LT(jg) W.W. Bower

MoMM2 Allan R. Brannam

RT1 Herbert H. Burch

S1 Nicholas J. Cado

MoMM3 John J. Carano

MoMM1 Charles L. Carpenter

SM2 James L. Carpenter

F1 Pasquale C. Carracino

S1 David S. Chapman

TM1 Frederick H. ChildJr.

FC3 Douglas Childress

TM2 Perry A. Collom

MoMM2 Audrey C. Crayton

TM3 Jack E. Cugnin

EM3 John W. Culbertson

EM2 Philip H. Davis

GM3 Roy E. Davis

MM3 Fred W. Day

TM3 Julius Delfonso

TM2 James L. DeWitt

MoMM1 James T. Dunlap

RT3 Carl H. Eskew

LT(jg) J.F. FortierJr.

S1 Gordon H. Fullilove

MoMM3 John W. Gant

EMC John P. Gennett

SC1 William H. Gibson

LT(jg) J.F. Gilkeson

F1 Charles C. Hall

QM3 James K. Harrell

SC1 Robert D. Hill

F2 Allan D. Hudgins

TM3 Donald P. Hughes

TM3 Eugene E. Hutchinson

EM2 Burton P. Johnson

QM2 Sheridan P. Jones

S1 George Kaplafka

S2 Nelson KelleyJr.

SM1 Morris K. Kincaid

F1 Victor E. Kinon

MoMM2 Joseph M. Krizanek

S2 Arthur S. Kruger

LT W.E. LangJr.

EM3 Jack A. Little

S1 Kenneth W. Manful

S1 Patrick K. McKenna

SM2 Willie A. McNeill

EMC Joseph N. Mercer

GM2 Leonard D. Moss

TM2 Richard J. Naudack

S1 Encamacion Nevarez

S1 Joseph H. Northam

S1 Frank R. Nystrom

F1 Robert J. O'Brien

TMC Elmer H. Peterson

TM2 Charles F. PieringerJr.

MoMM1 J.T. Porter

S1 Jerrold W. ReedJr.

LT Francis A. Riley

LCDR(CO) Hugh R. Rimmer

QMC A.B. Roberts

S1 James E. Rowe

RMC Philip Shoenthal

SC2 George M. Sisk

MoMM2 Joe L. Spratt

MoMM3 Harold W. St.Clair

MoMMC Arthur L. Stanton

EM1 Robert J. Starace

EM2 John H. Stephenson

YN2 Maurice C. Strattan

MoMM1 Earl R. Tanner

EM3 William G. Tesser

RM3 Paul R. Tomich

LT(jg) C.E. TraynorJr.

LT(XO) Theodore T. Walker

EM2 Elmer Weisenfluh

EM3 James D. Welch

MoMM2 Richard A. West

MoMM2 Wesley J. Willans

F1 Leslie A. Wilmott

RM2 David R. Wood

Sylvester M. Wright