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USS Pickerel (SS-177)

She departed Pearl Harbor 18 March 1943 and, after topping off with fuel at Midway 22 March, headed for the eastern coast of Northern Honshu and was never heard from again. PICKEREL was the first submarine to be lost in the Central Pacific area. Post-war analysis of Japanese records credited PICKEREL with sinking 440-ton SUBMARINE CHASER NO. 13 on 3 April and 1,113-ton cargo ship FUKUEI MARU 7 April. PICKEREL was struck from the Navy List 19 August 1943. [Examination of Japanese records after the war revealed an attack on a submarine off Shiramuka Lighthouse, northern Honshu on 3 April 1943. Naval aircraft bombed a submersible, then directed minelayer SHIRAGAMI and auxiliary submarine chaser BUNZAN MARU to the spot where they dropped twenty-six depth charges. A large quantity of oil floated to the surface. PICKEREL was the only American submarine in that area at the time. If, however, she survived the depth charging to sink FUKUEI MARU on the 7th, her cause of her loss is yet to be learned.

LCDR(CO) A.H Alston Jr.

OC2 Dionisio Apsay

GMC Edward N Ayer

S1 Kenneth H Baurmeister

EM1 Leslie D Bays

MoMM1 Joseph A.R Beauregard

YN1 Robert G Beck

BK2 Julius J Bergman

S1 Walter E Blaylock

FC3 Robert E Brownell

S1 David L Browning Jr.

MoMMC Ray C Carroll

TM1 Cyril A Cline

F2 Thomas H Coffey

MoMM2 Paul T Cynewski

TM2 Grady T Davis

LTjg Harry S Dowe

TM3 Roger E Eagan

S2 Warren E Evans

S1 David Evidon

TM3 Theodore G Feiock

F2 Ernest T Flanders

EM1 John E Flowers

PhM2 Marshall B Frazier

F2 Nicholas Gaetano

EM3 Alva L Garner

S2 Lowell J Goodin

F2 William R Greisiger

RM3 Louis J Harget Jr.

TM2 Clarence Harris

LT Richard L Helm

QM2 Theodore M Herda

MoMM2 Francis P Hery

SM1 Henry R Hilbert

F1 Holroyd J Hirst

ENS W.T Hoge

S1 Andrew J Horvath

S2 Walter B Hunt

EM3 Fred R Hutchens

S2 Richard L Isley

GM3 Jerrell R Johnson

FC1 Edward Karaus

SC2 William J Lemke

EM3 Joseph C Lindsay

SM1 Robert E Litchfield

S2 John B Littledave

MoMM2 Charles O Markle Jr.

F2 Wayne T.E Mattson

EM3 Patrick H McCormack

TMC John McMahon

EMC Frederick L Meischke

S2 Henry M Mitchell

LT H.W Moore Jr.

RM3 Grover C Morrison Jr.

EM1 Thomas W Nowviock

OS2 Francisco Olaguera

SC3 Berl C Osborn

S1 William A Peifer

S2 J.W Pierce

S1 Donald Polk

EM1 John W Pore

RMC Charles A Powell

MoMM1 Svend J Rasmussen

LTjg Sherry B Ray

S1 Elmer H Russell

LT Wade C Shaffer Jr.

LT(XO) Thomas F Sharp

MoMM1 Donald A Shiffer

MM3 Robert W Stanton

RM3 William A Stevens

MoMM1 Eldridge C Stockton

RM1 Luke M Taylor Jr.

TM2 Merrill G Van Cleve