USS R-12 (SS-89) Submarine
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USS R-12
The Crew of the R-12 consist of forty two entombed sailors who lost their lives when the R-12 sank on June 12, 1943. Five survived the sinking floating for five hours before being rescued and eighteen survived were ashore the day of the sinking.
Forty-Two Entombed
Eighteen Survived Ashore
Alberto Gonçalves Rosauro de Almeida
General William Bacon
Robert Burton Bronson
James Joseph Buckley
Fredrick Edward Cashell
Howard Livingston Clayton
Raymond Francis Flisher
Lenard Earl Garbulsky
Frederick Patrick Graziani, Jr.
Joseph Cyril Hall, Jr.
Elmer Larry Harman, Jr.
James Ulysses Horton
Joseph Stephen Horvath
Howard Herbert Knapp
Everett Samuel Krigbaum
Leland Van Kymer, Jr.
Charles Buddy LeVan
Henry Peter Lobeck
Curtis Virgle Mathis
Paul Ralph McKibben
Joseph Moncada
Julio Lima de Moura
Albert Jackson Mullis
George William Ness
Paul Louis Noonan
John Henry Rabbitt
Edward John Rafferty
Lyle Edmund Schnake
Craig R. Scott
Howard Russell Secor
Harry Henry Shellenberger
Granby Solomon Smith
Roger Norton Starks
Donald Charles Sullivan
Rudolph Albert Thompson, Jr.
James Donald Unger
Ernest William Vincent
Norman William Walker
Edwin Francis Walsh
Kenneth John Wheeler
Willie Daniel Young
George Arthur Zimmerman
Robert Niel England
Joe Lawrence Cross
Eric Preston Bailey
Robert Bird Balfe
Percy Edward Barnett
Claude Alphonse Boucher
Daniel Enoch Davis
Robert Durrenberger
William Wilfred Mayer
Glenn Harding Niles
Leif Ovenson
Jack Edward Pinkley
Adolph John Schnee
Ernest Edward Schwartz
John Joseph Sullivan
Franklin Augustus Van Leuven
James Henry Wood
Frank Joseph Zions
Charles W. Mazalan
Edward Ellis Shelby, Commanding Officer
William D. Whetstone, LTJG
John Kapral
Edward Felix Zielinski
Sydney Herbert Pool
Survived Sinking
