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USS Kete (SS-369)

Lt. Comdr Edward Ackerman in command. KETE cleared Guam 1 March for her second war patrol. Assigned to waters surrounding the Nansei Shoto Chain, she resumed lifeguard duty and gathered weather data for the forthcoming invasion of Okinawa. While patrolling west of Tokara Retto on the night of 9 and 10 March, she surprised an enemy convoy and torpedoed three marus totaling 6,881 tons. During the night of 14 March, she attacked a cable-laying ship. With only three torpedoes remaining, she was ordered to depart the area 20 March, refuel at Midway, and proceed to Pear Harbor for refit. KETE acknowledged these orders 19 March; and, while steaming eastward the following day, she sent in a weather report from a position south of Colnett Strait. Scheduled to arrive Midway by 31 March, she was neither seen nor heard from again. Repeated attempts to contact her by radio failed; and on 16 April she was reported as presumed lost.

EM1 LeRoy A Abts

LCDR E Ackerman

LTjg John C Adams Jr.

FC3 John D Apking

MoMM3 Donald L Bergadine

S1 Leonard E Blodgett

MoMMC Francis W Braniger

QM2 Carl Brooks

LTjg W.H Burnside Jr.

F1 Perry C Callahan

EM3 Bernard Cobrin

RM3 Hugh M Cole

EM2 Edward Cooper

RM2 Robert W Crowley

LTjg C.R Crutchfield Jr.

CK3 William H Dawson

F1 Frederick R Deininger

YN1 Harold W Derrah

CSC Helmut O Dietrich

SM1 Calvin F Dortche

LT K.L Drake

TM3 Willis Dul

S1 Mauel L Efferson

S1 Donald P Egen

LTjg D.G Fenton

MoMMC Hugh French

MoMMC Ben Friesen

F1 Robert S Fuller

S1 John F GlynnJr.

S1 Fred J. Griswold

RT1 Joseph H Gunzinger

EM3 Elmer E GwinnJr.

ENS Bernard H Haag

S1 Robert A Hart

MoMM3 Glenn E Hartbank

TM1 Paul O Hayden

COX Earl Hendersonm

TM2 James L Hines

TMC James R Holshouser

RM3 Stanton L Hooper

EM2 Abraham J Katz

EM3 Norbert W Kelly

TM3 Elmer N Kensler

RM3 Walter E Kotelman

EM2 Richard P Kraut

MoMM3 Jack L Lasiter

GM3 Frank Litzenburger Jr.

BK1 Earl Logsdon

MoMM3 Billie B Lowery

MoMM2 Charles W Lynn Jr.

S1 Glenn R Malko

F1 Anthony T Marsico

SMC Frank Martini

MoMM2 Bernard E McLendon

S1 Grant R Messenger

SC2 Samuel A Moccabee

S1 Charlton L Moore

MoMM1 Henry F Morrison

MoMM1 Archie V. Newton

BMC Joseph A O'Brien

EM3 Mark A O'Connor

MoMM1 George T Page

S1 Clair Peterson Jr.

MoMM3 I. Victor Piper

MoMM2 Glenn O Price

QM3 Donald C Pushee

S1 Robert R Racer

LT F.F Reimers

GM1 Francis A Richards

QM3 George J Schemm

MoMM2 Maxium D Schenavar

EM1 Paul F Schumacher

PhMC Oliver H Simpson

EM2 James I Snyder

LT(XO) R.H Spikes

MoMM1 Jacob G Starr Jr.

RMC French L Thomas Jr.

S1 Gordon R Thompson

GM3 Keith Thorn

TM2 Peter C VanDam

F1 Salomon H Villalba

EMC James S Waggoner

TM2 Russell A Wallick

TM2 Stewart F Walling

LT J.A Westphall

TM1 Gordon W Wilson

RT2 Galen I Woodward