ABOUT THE MEN

Please note: This page of the website is under construction, and will be regularly updated with new photographs, letters, maps, journal entries, reminiscences, and other material in the weeks and months ahead. Ranks of the men are as of June 1942.

Ensign William W. Abercrombie
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AMM Frank Balsley
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

AOM3c Wiley Bartlett

Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

ARM2Ross E. Bibb
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign Charles Brannon
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Lt. George Marvin Campbell
KIA, Midway, June 4,1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign James Hill Cook
KIA, August 22, 1942, USS Saratoga

Ensign William Wilson Creamer

KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AOM3 Newton Delchamps
Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

Ensign Robert “Andy” Divine

Veteran, USS Saratoga, Guadalcanal, other battles

Awarded Navy Cross

CAP Benjamin Monroe Doggett
KIA, Guadalcanal, October 6, 1942

CAP Willard Henry Dye

Veteran, Saratoga, Guadalcanal, other Pacific battles

Ensign Albert Kyle Earnest
Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Three Navy Crosses

Ensign William Esders

Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal, other Pacific battles

Awarded the Navy Cross

Ensign William Robinson Evans, Jr.
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign Robert Evarts

Veteran, Saratoga, Guadalcanal, other Pacific battles

Awarded the Navy Cross

Ensign Eddie Fayle
Veteran, USS Saratoga
Awarded Navy Cross

ARM2 Harry Ferrier
Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

Lt. Langdon Kellogg Fieberling
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign George Henry Gay Jr.
Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign Oswald Gaynier
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AMM1 James C. Hammond
Veteran, Guadalcanal
Awarded Silver Star

Ensign Eugene Hanson
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Two Navy Crosses

Lt. Bruce Harwood
Veteran, Midway, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles (KIA)
Awarded Three Navy Crosses

Ensign Aaron Katz
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross

Ensign Henry R. Kenyon
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Lt. Harold Henry Larsen
Veteran Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Two Navy Crosses, Two Distinguished Flying Crosses, Bronze Star

Ensign Victor Alan Lewis
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AMM3 Jay Darrell Manning
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942

Ensign Frederick Mears, III

Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

Ensign Ulvert Matthew Moore
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign Corwin F. Morgan
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross

Lt. James C. Owens, Jr.
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign Robert Ries
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles
Awarded Navy Cross

Ensign John Taurman
KIA, Guadalcanal, October 7, 1942

Ensign Grant W. Teats
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AMM2 William Tunstall
Veteran, Midway, other Pacific Battles

AMM Edward Velazquez
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

AMM1 Ervin Wendt
Veteran, Guadalcanal, other Pacific Battles

AMM1 Darrel D. Woodside
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross

Lt. Jefferson Davis Woodson
KIA, Midway, June 4, 1942
Awarded Navy Cross