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USS Escolar (SS-294)

Escolar had her final training for combat at Pearl Harbor, from which she put out for her first war patrol 18 September 1944. After topping off fuel at Midway, she joined Croaker (SS-246) and Perch (SS-313) for a coordinated war patrol in the Yellow Sea which she directed. On 30 September, she engaged a small craft in a surface gun action, and reported to her sisters that she was undamaged, without mentioning what her gunfire had done to the enemy ship. Her last communication was with Perth on 17 October; she was never heard from again. Since Japanese records consulted after the war show no antisubmarine action at that time in the area where Escolar is believed to have been, it is assumed that she struck a mine and sank with all hands.

MoMM2 Lloyd L. Abram

RM3 Donald W. Anders

LT Thomas Babb

EMC Laurence L. Bailey

TM2 Donald L. Balfe

EM3 Frederick E. Becker

PhM1 Joseph J. Bender

LCDR(XO) Frank Blaha

F1 Robert E. Bones

S2 Benjamin W. Bonk

RMC Charles E. Brabham

RT2 Glenn J. Broecker

EM1 Frank Brouskie

F1 Eugene E. Brown

MoMM3 Joseph M. Cahill

TM3 Richard L. Calabrese

TM1 William T. CaldwellJr.

RM1 Kenneth S. Campbell

EM3 Michael J. Cheosky

TM2 Joseph J. Cifrodella

MoMMC John W. Clary

QM3 Donald E. Coleman

MoMM1 Joe M. Cummings

QM2 Ludwik C. DanielsJr.

S1 Joseph F. Ennis

SM1 Benjamin Evans

LT R.L. Farrar

YNC John C. Farwell

TM2 Francis J. Fine

QM2 Jack E. Fostair

GM2 Alvin B. Foster

GM2 Lynn B. Fox

RT1 Lynn B. Fox

MoMM1 Delbert A. Fulton

EM1 Walter Gancarz

MoMM3 Donald H. Glading

CSC Adam E. Gorecki

TM3 Fred L. Hahn

QM1 Calvin L. Hampton

LT C.J. Hill

FC2 Edward S. Horodynski

LT(jg) Losson V. Jeffrey

MoMM3 James G. Johnson

EM2 James H. Kellam

MoMM1 Dan C. Killough

SC2 Harold B. Komes

SM1 Fertig B. KrauseJr.

S1 Vere J. LaRue

LT(jg) H.C. Latham

MoMM1 Anthony Lieder

MoMM2 William C. Lyons

F1 Joseph Masloski

RM2 Thomas D. McCloskey

EMC Stanley D. Miller

CDR(CO) William J. Millican

S1 John J. Morris

MoMM3 James M. Munsel

TMC Raymond B. NewtonJr.

F1 Robert N. Norford

MoMM1 John A. O'ConnellJr.

MoMMC Beryl L. Pennington

F1 Daniel W. Phillips

SM2 James A. Raley

MoMM3 John L. Romond

LT(jg) R.W. Searls

EM3 Robert A. Shirah

F2 Jospeh A. Slavik

S1 Arthur R. Smith

F1 Bryant T. Smith

BK3 Donald Spoust

GM1 Anthony Tokarchek

EM3 Howard Trensch

S1 John B. Tucker

F1 Thomas E. Tucker

EM2 Richard C. Turner

MoMM2 Ralph Valentino

TM3 William Velten

TM1 Goodwyn M. Wallace

S1 Nicholas P. Wells

ENS John H. Whitehouse

SC3 Richard W. Wybrow

TM3 Walter Yaworsky

S1 Andrew Zumar