Line Drawing of USS St. Louis CL-49 as we knew her.
Our Honored Dead
“We therefore commit their bodies to the deep, with the sure and certain knowledge of the Resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, the sea shall give up her dead; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, and made like unto his glorious body; according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.”
Portsmouth,
Virginia - 1 June 1939
Portsmouth Naval Hospital -
Traffic Accident
Coley, Oscar Wilson---S2/c, USN---Terre Haute, Indiana
Territory of Hawaii - 16 October 1941
Hawaiian
Operating Area - Aircraft Lost at Sea
James, Willard Hendry---Ensign AV(N), USNR---Blackshear, Georgia
Allee, William Marion---CRM(AA), USN---Corpus Christi, Texas
Territory of Hawaii - 7 December 1941
Kaneohe, N.A.S. - Enemy Aircraft Strafing
Porterfield, Robert Kirk---AMM3/c, USN---Bridgeport, Ohio
Territory of Alaska - 16 August 1942
Dutch Harbor, NAS Kodiak to Whitehorse - Aircraft
Lost
Burrows, Arthur Barton---Major, USMC---Columbus, Ohio
Crook, Joseph Alexander--- Lieutenant, USN---Jackson, Tennessee
Deterding, Charles Ernest, Jr.---Lt(jg), USN---Lowellville, Ohio
Noble, Jay Alvin, Jr.---Lt(jg), USN---Lockport, New York
The Slot - 9 April 1943
Solomon Islands - Lost at Sea
Delain, Frank---S2/c V6, USNR---Caldwell, Idaho
Espiritu Santo Island - 22 June 1943
New Hebrides - Lost at Sea
from Aircraft
Gibb, William---ARM2/c, USN---Glenside, Pennsylvania
San Benito County, California - 15 July 1943
Hollister N.A.S. -
Operational Aircraft Crash
Thornton, Maurice John---Lieutenant AV(N), USNR---Pomeroy, Ohio
Fairfield, California - 5 October 1943
Cordelia Junction
- Pedestrian Fatality
Vallejo, California - 13 October 1943
Mare Island Naval Hospital
- Accidental Drowning
Reno, Kenneth Douglas---WT2/c, USN---Hayward, California
Killed in Enemy Action
Green Island - 14 February 1944
Bismarck Archipelago -
Enemy Aerial Bomb
Berton, Berdette Bernard---Lieutenant (jg) , USN---Tulsa, Oklahoma
Baldwin, John Boyd---MM3/c V6, USNR---Beaver, Utah
Baynor, John---CMM (AA), USN---Pasadena, California
Bryant, James Jefferson---F2/c, USN---South Gate, California
Carraway , Kermit Lee---CWT (AA), USN---San Francisco, California
Churchill, Harold Stuart---MoMM2/c, USN---Duluth, Minnesota
Cline, Thomas Russell---MM2/c, USN---Cummings, Kansas
Flood, Edwin Warren---MM1/c, USN---Bowling Green, Kentucky
Freeman, Earl William---Y2/c V6, USNR---Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Gustison, Richard John---F2/c V6, USNR---Waterloo, Iowa
Herron, David---MM3/c V6, USNR---Checotah, Oklahoma
Hill, Mark Dewey---MM1/c, USN---Kinston, North Carolina
Jennings, Frank Richard---MM2/c, USNR---Los Angeles, California
Kitson, Neil Victor---F2/c V6, USNR---Keshina, Wisconsin
McDonald, Joe Ben---F2/c V6, USNR---Walnut Grove, Missouri
McGuffin, William Arnold---F2/c, USNR---Kansas City, Kansas
Myer, Urban Earnest---F1/c, USN---Paragold, Arkansas
Null, Edmund Wallace---MM1/c, USN---Eureka, California
Olson, Wesley Francis---MM2/c, USN---LaGrande, Oregon
Rosandich , Joseph Frank---MM1/c, USN---Sacramento, California
Rosbury, Charles William---F2/c V6, USNR---Detroit,
Michigan
Shuman, John Monroe---F2/c V6, USNR---Columbia, Pennsylvania
Stehman, Donald---MM3/c V6S, USNR---Noblesville, Indiana
Espiritu Santo Island -
1 March 1944
New Hebrides
-
Electrical Accident
Urbani, Stephen Paul---CEM, USN---Royal, Pennsylvania
Tulagi Island - 16 April 1944
Solomon Islands
-
Poisoning
Rumse, Henry Edward---PhM3/c, USN---Hopedale, Massachusetts
Purvis Bay, Florida Island - May 7, 1944
Solomon Islands, Cerebral Hemorrhage
King, John W.---PFC, USMC---Detroit, Michigan
Killed in Enemy Action
Leyte Gulf - 27
November 1944
Philippine Islands
- Kamikaze Attack
Vogel, Sebastian George, Jr.---Ensign Av(N), USNR---Everett, Washington
Barrett, Robert Oren---S1/c V6, USNR---Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Bowman, Robert Henry---GM3/c V6, USNR---Roann, Indiana
Boyd, Clyde Roe---ARM2/c, USN---Long Beach, California
Butterworth, Lawrence Ray---GM3/c V6, USNR---Seattle, Washington
Gordon, Wendell Evans---S1/c V6, USNR---Smiths Grove, Kentucky
Goulson, Vernon Victor---S2/c V6, USNR---Milan, Minnesota
Griebahn, Donald Ivan---S2/c V6, USNR---Chicago, Illinois
Janikowski, David Florian---S2/c(GM) V6, USNR---Winona, Minnesota
King, Robert Neal---S2/c V6, USNR---Cleveland, Oklahoma
Lassiter, Eugene Quay---F2/c V6S, USNR---Coolidge, Arizona
O'Neal, Wilson Folis---S1/c V6, USNR---Scottsville, Kentucky
Olsen, Wilmer Ernest---S2/c V6S, USNR---Puyallup, Washington
Powell, John Marshall---CMM(AA), USN---Richmond, Virginia
Shoemaker, George William---S2/c V6, USNR---Chattanooga, Tennessee
Whitaker, Herbert Elroy---S2/c V6S, USNR---Whitaker, Kentucky
Shanghai, China - 29 September
1945
Huangpu River -
Accidental Drowning
Miller, Mervyn Richard---S2/c V6, USNR---San Francisco, California
At Sea - 1 November 1945
En route - Guam to Hawaii -
Electrical Accident
Dixon, Warren Ely, Jr.---RT2/c V6, USNR---Cranford, New Jersey
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The Navy Hymn
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the restless wave;
Who bid'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep;
O, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
Who walkedst on the foaming deep, And calm amid its rage didst sleep;
O, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
Who bad'st its angry tumult cease, And gavest light, and life, and peace;
O, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them where so e'er they go,
Thus ever let there rise to Thee Glad hymns of praise from land and sea. Amen
****May They Rest in Peace****