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USS Grunion (SS-216)

Departing Hawaii 30 June after 10 days of intensive training, GRUNION touched Midway; then headed toward the Aleutians for her first war patrol. Her first report, made as she patrolled north of Kiska Island, stated she had been attacked by a Japanese destroyer and had fired at him with inconclusive results. She operated off Kiska throughout July and sank two enemy patrol boats while in search for enemy shipping. On 30 July the submarine reported intensive antisubmarine activity, and she was ordered back to Dutch Harbor.

GRUNION was never heard from nor seen again. Air searches off Kiska were fruitless; and on 5 October GRUNION was reluctantly reported overdue from patrol and assumed lost with all hands. Captured Japanese records show no antisubmarine attacks in the Kiska area, and the fate of GRUNION remains a mystery. Her name was struck from the Navy List 2 November 1942.

LCDR(CO) Mannert L. Abele

SM3 Frank E. Alexander

SM3 Daniel E. Allen

MA2 Herbert J. Arvan

MoMMC Paul E. Banes

MoMMC Leo J.I. Bedard

RM3 Wesley H. Blinston

S1 Nicholas R. Bonadies

EM3 Robert F. Boo

MM1 Chester L. Bouvia

EMC George E. Caldwell

S2 Richard H. Carroll

TM2 John S. Clift

F2 Michael F. Collins

MoMM1 Lee D. Cooksey

MoMMC Daniel Cullinane

ENS W.H. CuthbertsonJr.

S2 Lawrence D. Deaton

TMC Albert E. DeStoop

S2 William P. DevaneyJr.

LT(jg) Samuel R. DightonJr.

RM2 Louis H. DoellJr.

GM1 Samuel A. T empleton

S1 Leon H. Franck

TMC Merritt D. Graham

S2 Kenneth E. Hall

EM3 Ernest G. Helensmith

TM3 Hollice B. Henderson

MoMM2 Sylvester J. Kennedy

S2 Edward E. KnowlesJr.

TM1 Lawrence R. Kockler

LT(jg) William G. Kornahrens

YNC Moore J. Ledford

EM1 Woodrow W. Lehman

MoMM2 Sidney A. Loe

EM2 Samuel LunsfordJr.

F1 J.W. Lyon

MoMMC Carson R. Martin

EM1 Thomas E. Martin

EM1 Ryder Mathison

TM3 Richard G. McCutcheon

LT John M. McMahon

F2 E.C. Miller

F1 David O. Myers

MoMM2 Frank T. Nave

RM1 Arthur G. Newcomb

MoMM1 John W. Nobles

MoMM2 Jack E. Pancoast

TM3 Carmine A. Parziale

MA2 Cornelius PaulJr.

S1 Bernard J. Pickel

S2 Arnold C. Post

RM2 William H. Randall

S2 Loyal RyanJr.

MoMM1 Howard A. Sanders

QMC Elmer T. Schumann

PhM1 Paul P. Sullivan

SC1 Steven Surfchek

S2 David N. Swartwood

LT(XO) Millener W. Thomas

S2 Byron A. Traviss

S1 Albert Ullmann

F3 Marshall F. VanVoggelum

F3 Melvin H. Walter

EM2 Raymond E. Webster

FC2 Donald F. Welch

TM2 John H. Wells

SC3 John E. WilsonJr.

F2 Ralph J. Youngman