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USS Snook (SS-279)

SNOOK was lost while conducting her ninth war patrol, in the South China Sea and Luzon Strait. On 8 April 1945, she reported her position to submarine TIGRONE (SS-419) and when she did not acknowledge messages sent from TIGRONE the next day, it was presumed that she had headed toward Luzon Strait. On 12 April, she was ordered to take lifeguard station in the vicinity of Sakeshima Gunto in support of British carrier air strikes. On 20 April, the commander of the British carrier task force reported that he had a plane down in SNOOK's assigned area, and that he could not contact the submarine by radio. SNOOK was ordered to search the area and to acknowledge the order. When she failed to make a transmission, submarine BANG (SS-385) was sent to make the search and rendezvous with SNOOK. Although BANG arrived and rescued the downed aviators, she saw nothing of the missing submarine; and, on 16 May, SNOOK was presumed lost, the victim of unknown causes.

MoMMC Robert B. Adams

TM2 Erven E.J Bagby

RT2 Russell L Baum

MoMM3 R.S Billingsley Jr.

F1 Kenneth P Bolger

RM3 Ben A Branum Jr.

MoMM3 Ned E Browning

EM3 Sidney Brownstein

RT1 Robert K Burdick

PhM1 Leo Burger

LTjg Claude R Busby

F1 Danford A Byron

F1 John E Cave

EM2 Benedict A Cesare

QM1 James D Choate

LTjg E.P Clark II

GM1 Delmer L Crawford

F1 George L Crawford

F1 James A Cross

RM1 William L Dolph

S1 Charles J Eckenrode

S1 Clarence F Edmunds

EM2 Warren P Ellis

EM2 Harry R Etkin Jr.

LT(XO) William S Farrell

MoMM3 John C Felabom

EM3 Donald W Fry

S1 Anthony Gambardella

LT Stephen P Gardner

F1 Jack J Glass

BK2 Victor Gregorini

F1 Andrew Grindzak

MoMM1 Jack E Groat

MoMM1 Paul H Grupp

TM3 Andrew T Guthrie

YN2 Raymond L Hughes

EMC David J Hurley

S1 Robert R Ingram

MoMMC Harold M Johnson

SC2 Joseph Johnston Jr.

TM3 Harry F Julian

S2 Paul F Keiser II

TM1 William E Kellogg

F1 Francis J Klosterman

TM3 Norman T Kramer

S1 Thomas W Lamont II

MoMM1 William T Lang

S1 Lawrence W Lundgren

MoMM2 Isadore I Lunken

F2 Francis R Maney

EM3 John G Manley

S1 Ones W McEntyer

QM3 James E McGahan

F1 Ralph M McGuire Jr.

LTjg Donald J McNeill

QM3 Vincent P Mlynek

MoMM2 Charles Morgan

GM3 John L Morgan

S1 George C Olson

TM1 Glen C Page

RM3 John S Parker

S1 Norman Phillips

F1 John B Regan

EM1 Martin L Register

MoMM2 Walter J Rehbit

SM1 William J Rodney

TM2 Arthur M Russell

EM3 Richard L Schoen

FC3 William C Schramm

LTjg Rona L Schwendemann

TM3 John F Scully

SM3 William E Shelton

SC1 Ben Silvia

S1 John C Sloan

S1 Ernest L Spence

RT3 Robert R Sukola

F1 Howard T Toulson

EM2 Harold K Wagner

CDR(CO) John F Walling

LTjg Andrew W Welch Jr.

MoMM1 James A Will

F1 Robert Eugene Wood

FC2 Robert Emmett Wood Jr.

ENS John N Wright