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USS Gudgeon (SS-211)

GUDGEON sailed for her 12th war patrol 4 April 1944.The battle-tested submarine stopped off at Johnston Island7 April, and was never seen or heard from again. On 7June 194, GUDGEON was officially declared overdue and presumed lost. The latest research by Mike Ostland, nephew of one of the officers aboard at the time of her loss show her to have been sunk in an air attack off Iwo Jima on April 18, 1944.

GM3 P Barrett

MoMM3 Paul H Birchfield

TM1 James H Blessing

LCDR(CO) Robert A Bonin

EM2 John G Bossong

SM3 James R Carney

TM3 Richard O Christian

LTjg James W.S Coghlan

LT Robert C Collins

EM2 Charles B Copeland Jr.

EM2 Glenn E Crandall

ENS Ben W Dickenson

EM3 Everett H Dodson

TM3 Jeremiah P Donovan

MoMM1 John W Evans

YN3 Albert R Everhart

MoMM1 Wayne E Feikert

SM2 Ambrosio Fernandez

EM3 Jack A Fournier

EM2 Howard O Garrett

MoMM2 Edward C Gaughan

MoMM3 Karl R Hammond

TM2 Lambert G Hegerfeld

F1 William R Henry

MoMM2 Elijah C Hensley

LTjg Burton L Heyes

GM3 Riley M Hitt

TM2 Robert E Hughart

RM3 Donald W Keller

S2 Norman C Keller

MoMMC Stephen Kohut

RM2 Kenneth P Krueger

SC2 Leonard A Langdale

MoMM3 George W Lefferts Jr.

S1 Rodney J Lewis

LTjg D.B McCorquadale

TM3 John R McKenna

TM3 James W McLallen

RM3 Wallace F McNicol

TM1 Lester L Metzger

LT(XO) Donald R Midgley

MoMM3 Earl Morris

EM3 William J Murphy

MoMM1 Harry C Nickel

EM3 Malcolm P Norris

QM3 Harry F Orfila

LTjg William C Ostlund

SC2 Herbert F Patriquin

EMC Thomas E Patterson

RT2 Francis J Pieniadz

S1 John A Piller

LTjg Addison B Pinkley

PhMC John M Powles

RM1 William D Remaley

TM3 J. Richard Rice

MoMM3 William J Sennewald

S2 Milton A Sewell

MoMM2 Lynwood Shults

TM2 Robert P Simon

S1 William H Sponheimer

MoMM1 Owen J Sullivan

F2 Robert H Taylor

S1 Samuel H Taylor

MoMM3 Clarence F Thomas

TM3 Harold E Updike

S1 Norman Vance

EM2 Frederick E VanNorden

RM2 Joel M Walker Jr.

MoMM2 Harold A Waters

EM3 George J Watson

F1 Earle A Webster Jr.

EC3 Thomas J White

MoMM2 Joseph Whitelow

EM2 W.W Worthington Jr.

GM3 Charles A Zimmerman

In addition to the above named men, TM3 Arthur Miller is reported to have died in April 1943. The cause and location of his death are, at present, unknown. Lt(jg) George H. Penland was hit in the head by an ejected shell caseing and went overboard and was lost on 8 May 1943.