On Eternal Patrol - USS Sculpin (SS-191)

USS Sculpin (SS-191)

The following men were lost while serving on USS Sculpin (SS-191). A number of men survived the sinking of Sculpin, but died while being transported from Truk to Japan when IJN Chuyo was sunk by USS Sailfish on December 3, 1943.

Please note that the location of Sculpin's loss, formerly listed on personal memorial pages as "North of Groluk Island near Truk," has been corrected to "North of Oroluk Island near Truk."

Click on a man's name to go to his personal memorial page on this site. Photographs and personal information are needed as indicated in the column at right.

For a brief history of the boat, please see The Loss of USS Sculpin.

	Name	Photo
1	Nelson John Allen	Yes
2	Eugenio Apostal	Yes
3	Eugene Arnath	Yes
4	Jerome Warren Baglien*	Yes
5	Maximo Barrera*	Yes
6	Edgar Melrose Beidleman, Jr.	Yes
7	Fred George Bentsen	Needed
8	Warren Rawling Berry*	Yes
9	Arthur George Blum	Yes
10	Bill Clinton Brannum*	Yes
11	Thomas Vincent Brown*	Needed
12	Robert William Carter*	Yes
13	Kenneth Burl Clements	Yes
14	Charles Steele Coleman	Yes
15	Fred Connaway**	Yes
16	John Philip Cromwell	Yes
17	James Edwin Daylong	Yes
18	Joseph Rollie Defrees, Jr.**	Yes
19	Maurice Simon DeLisle*	Yes
20	Donald Lawrence Diederich	Yes
21	Henry Leonidas Elliott*	Yes
22	George Roderic Embury**	Yes
23	Wendell Max Fiedler	Yes
24	Philip Joseph Gabrunas	Yes
25	John Worth Gamel*	Yes
26	George Goorabian	Yes
27	Alexander Benjamin Guillot	Yes
28	James Quinton Harper	Yes
29	Richard Earl Hemphill	Yes
30	Erwin Raymond Holland	Yes
31	Gordon Everett Johnson	Yes
32	Steve Kanocz	Yes
33	John Bowers Kennon, Jr.*	Yes
34	Harold Dewitt Laman*	Yes
35	Clifford Joseph Lawton	Yes
36	Stanley Wayne Maguire	Yes
37	Grover Wade Marcus	Yes
38	Merlin Guy Martin	Yes
39	James William McCartney*	Yes
40	John Francis McTavish	Needed
41	Charles Edward Miller	Yes
42	Weldon Edward Moore*	Yes
43	Arnold Frank Moreton	Yes
44	Robert Michael Morrilly*	Yes
45	Elmon Truett Murray	Yes
46	John Parr*	Yes
47	William Henry Partin	Yes
48	Charles Earl Pitser*	Yes
49	Frank Salava	Yes
50	Elmer Virgil Schnell	Yes
51	Delbert Eugene Schroeder	Needed
52	Dowdy Buel Shirley	Yes
53	Charles Gold Smith, Jr.*	Yes
54	Laroy Harold Smith	Yes
55	James Thomas Suel	Yes
56	John Barlow Swift	Yes
57	Clifford Gene Taylor*	Yes
58	Russel Hershel Taylor	Yes
59	Henry VanBeest*	Yes
60	Ellis Edward Warren	Yes
61	Claiborne Hoyt Weade	Yes
62	William Henry Welsh***	Yes
63	Duane Joseph White*	Yes

*Survived sinking, but died when Chuyo was sunk.
**Killed by gunfire before boat sank.
***Died in captivity.

The following USS Sculpin crew members survived the sinking and Prisoner of War camp.

1	Edward Niles Anderson
2	Cecil Eugene Baker
3	Joseph Nicholas Baker, Jr.
4	George Estabrook Brown, Jr.
5	Billie Minor Cooper
6	Leo Aage Eskildsen
7	Michael Thomas Gorman
8	William Herbert Haverland
9	Edwin Karl Frederick Keller
10	Harry Smith Milbourn, Jr.
11	Paul Louis Murphy
12	Leo W. Joseph Murray
13	Julius Grant Peterson
14	Edward Forest Ricketts
15	George Rocek*
16	John Paul Rourke
17	Herbert Joseph Thomas
18	Paul A. Todd
19	Harry Ford Toney
20	Eldon Wright
21	Robert Orlin Wyatt

*Sole Sculpin survivor of the Chuyo sinking.

How to Submit Photos and Information

The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II assigned USS Sculpin (SS-191)

to the State of Maine.

Submarines Lost in World War II

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