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USS Capelin (SS-289)

Capelin put out on her second war patrol 17 November 1943, eager for new successes in the same area as that in which her first patrol took place. Capelin was never heard from again; radio silence was broken in the attempt to reach her on 9 December, but without success. Japanese records studied after the war listed an attack on a supposed United States submarine on 23 November, off Kaoe Bay, Halmahera, but the evidence of an actual contact was slight, and the action was incomplete. This is, however, the only reported attack in the appropriate area at that time. Gone without a trace, with all her gallant crew, Capelin must remain in the list of ships lost without a known cause.

S2 Buford Y Arney

SM2 Clarence M Ball

TMC Claude I Beck Jr.

EM3 Gerald R Blair

QM3 Perry C Bragg

LTjg Richard L Britton

S1 Ellis S Brown Jr.

RMC March H Butler

YNC Foster T Callahan

MoMM2 John J Callahan Jr.

S1 Joseph P Cavanaugh

SM1 Earl Cheatham

TM2 Everett R Clifford

TM1 Charles W Colyer

MM1 Joe L Cross

F2 James D Crowley

EM3 Charles F DeFreytas

TM3 William F Devine

TM2 William J Devine

TM3 Paul L Dill

FC3 Lester T Eklund

PhM1 Charles L Everhart

MoMMC John F Ganley Jr.

MoMM2 Philip J Gillen

SC2 Peter Grabnickas

EM2 Melvin J Hicks

EMC James W Holt Jr.

F1 Dick Jacobs

TM3 Leyle O Keaton

EM1 D.G Kennedy Jr.

EM2 Isidore I Klein

F3 John W Koziol

EM1 Eugene J Krall

S1 William A Lafferty

MoMMC L.A Landres

S1 Donald W Lange

MoMM1 Edwin J Lester

EM2 William M Lewitt

F2 John L Lutley

S1 John W Maddox

EM1 Alfred Madey

LCDR(CO) Elliot E Marshall

LCDR William B Mason Jr.

S1 George R Melvin

TM2 Otto F Moeller

RM1 Henry F Morgan

F1 Elmer A Norris

EM1 Cyril R Novotny

RM3 Melvin B O'Donnell

MoMM1 Stanley R Olsen

TM2 Thomas E O'Neal

LTjg Clinton F O'Neil

SM2 Finon Perry

MoMM1 Herman E Pettigrew Jr.

RT2 William N Pilkington

MoMM1 Richard Powell

MoMM2 William E Raminski

LTjg R.C Rhimann

MoMM2 John E Rhodes Jr.

MoMM1 Claude W Roberts

LCDR(XO) Edward D Robertson

LT Walter A Sharer

GM1 Harry Simon

MoMM2 D.T Smith

MoMM2 Leon C Smith

RM2 Robert L Smith

S1 Edward Smolenski

F3 Norman W Snyder

MoMM2 Walter W Stasik

TM1 Erwin H Steege

EM3 Robert G Stickle

MoMM2 Robert W Terrell

TM3 Jerry L Thibeault

LT Roy C Uhlmann

SC1 Curtis L Vassar Jr.

S1 Charles W Vaughan

F1 Ernest E Wellman

QM3 Herman R Winkler Jr.