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This memorial is dedicated to USS OAKLAND CL-CL/AA-95 Her heroes the
deceased officers and sailors.
 The above photo was sent
to me by Donald
Stewart.
This
memorial was created by Julie Andersen, I updated it in 1999 by
adding one name.
 Never
Forget Those That Gave Their All
Marked by Gold Star
 in
roster below. |
And especially to
all
of our deceased shipmates known and unknown to us.
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Each year the
deceased roster gets longer and the unknown
roster stays the same unless relatives tell us of a death. Sooner or later there will only be the deceased and unknown rosters remaining. It is too bad that there can’t be only one deceased roster and no unknown roster. Then our
deceased
shipmates can be
honored properly as a complete crew again. |
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Alphabetical
list of Deceased Shipmates known to us.
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Fred
William Aasa SSML3c
Cecil Clay Abbott LT(jg) PO Carmine Agnello S1c PO Durwood Calvin Anderson S1c CWO Ray B Andresen USN Ret PO Alfred Walter Ankudowicz S1c PO WTC George R Archibald USN Ret PO Robert Ross Armstrong S1c Dennis D Arnes EM3 Ralph L Arthur Jr SF3c PO L Douglas Atherton LT MC Alfred S Baker
James T Baker EM3c PO SKC H S (Bud) Banks USN Ret Robert Barnard Jr TM3c PO George Baritis S1c PO Francis Barnatchez S2c George Anthony Bartkus SSMT3c Albert James Beierle S1c PO Lawrence Bell S1c PO Thomas H Bell Jr MM1c PO Joseph Belley Jr WT3c PO Paul Frank Bentele S1c PO Edward Paul Bentlyewski S2c Kalvin Berger S2c Joseph E Berthelot SA Richard Beynon Virgil F Bircher FC3  Otto Vincent Blackwell SC2c PO Maurice Henry Boland S1c PO Joseph L Booten S2c Harold V Bornschlegel S1c Robert H Boulton, SM1c PO Charles William Bowen F2c Richard Lee Bowman S2c PO Val A Bradshaw SCB2c PO Calvin Leroy Briscoe RdM3c PO Enrico T Bruschi Sr SN Lloyd G Buerkens EM1c PO EMC John Burch USN Ret PO Wardell O Bush S1c PO John
Cackoski
RADM Allen P Calvert USN Ret Cristobal A Campas S2c Royce Talbert Campbell EM3c Thomas Luther Campbell EM2c PO Earnest Ramirez Campos S2c George A. Caprioli RD2 Kenneth Paul Carbo FC3c PO William Carroll S2c Milo Casey CAPT Thomas J Casey USN Ret Aneillo S Cerreto Y1c Jay V Chase Oscar Howard Clapper S2c Clifford E Clark Joseph P Clemente RM3c PO Glen V Coffelt MMC PO John Raymond Coffey Robert Lyle Cole Sr SoM1c PO William G Comley Norvin Ray Conway S1c PO Robert L Cornwall S1c PO Dean Patrick Cotey GM3c PO Alvin York Coxey MM3c PO William Crawford LT(jg) PO J T Creed TE Joseph Warren Crooks SK1c Patrick Cullen LT(jg) John Francis Davis S1c PO Loyd Earnest Davis GM2c PO Lawrence C Day LCDR MD David De Huff ENS WO Willard Ray Deaton USN Ret PO Albert J Decorrevont S2c Janvier Walter Dellinger Cox PO  Robert Edward Denega QM3c PO Kenneth L Dominique Y3c
Jim Doty Jr Cox PO Benny Dugay LCDR Kenneth Dunlop USN Ret Joseph DuquayS2c Michael P Eckis
Raymond F Eichenberg S1c PO Carol F Erickson Joseph Anthony
Falson Cox PO
James Russell Ferris S2c PO Francis Joseph Ferrucci S1c PO Glenn E Fetterolf SSMB3c William David Fisher GM2c PO BMC Peter Focht USN Ret PO Michael Fostak MMC PO Richard Paul Fowler S1c PO WTC George A Frajman USN, Ret George E Freeman S1c Louis E
Gahr Cox PO
L. J. Gay Jean W Gette EM2c PO Jack J Gobac WT2c PO Fortino B Godinez Jr HM2 Roger William Goforth LT(jg) PO Irby Raymond Goss Sc2c Leo Elmer Grattan Jr LT PO John Henry Grey S2c Don Howard Griffin S1c PO LT John R Griffin USN RET J B Guest MM1c Percy L Gussler Jr S1c PO Harrold
August Hahn S1c PO
Karl K Hall GM2c |
Wray Hammer
Orville Elphon Hanson MM3c PO CAPT Ward F Hardman USN Ret PO CDR Walter V Harlin USN Ret Milton Charles Harris S1c PO Richard
Hartshorne Jr.
Lawrence Earl
Hawkins S3cThomas Spurgeon Hayes Cox PO Walter B Heatherly Jr S1c PO Virgil Harmon Henderson GM3c Jack R Hiday GM3c Sgt USA (50) PO William John Hoare Jr WT2c Harris Lenard Hofer S1c PO Russell T Hoffman F1c Billy J Hoffsetz AS1c USN Ret Howard Wayne Holdefer S1c PO Loyd C Holder RM2c PO Wiston Richardson Hull ENS Virgil
Elvin Inge SC3c PO
Virgil
Elvin Inge SC3c PO
Felix J Janis Stephen F Jensen LCDR DDS James W Jerdon Claude Ellis Johnson GM3c PO Marvin B Jones BM1c PO Daniel Thomas Justice GM2c PO  Karl
Eugene Kaellner
SCB2c PO
Phillip Kaiser Louie C Karolyi SN Arlon Weldon Kellum RM3 Dallas E Kellum William Louis Kelly EM2c PO Owen J Killoran SF2c PO Ivan Martin Kirkpatrick CSC PO Frederick Robert Kirschman MM3c PO CDR Vinton W Knechtges USN Ret Carl Worthy Kunish S1c PO Rodman P Kypke LT SC Roy
Richard Lacey Jr S1c PO
Frank C Lamont RT3c PO Charles H Lance RADM Justin Langille USN Ret Joseph La Rosa SK3c PO Kenneth E Lewis GM3c PO Talmage H Lewis W Ben Lilly BM2c PO QMC Thomas T Lockman USN Ret Arthur Joseph Losleben RT2c PO Robert John Love FC2c PO Edgar Jerome Lowary EM2c William Leyoyd Lowe S2c Robert H Ludlow MMC Earnest C Lumpkin USN Ret PO Winfield Fredrick Lutz S1c PO Walter
Stanley Malik SC2c PO
Harry B Marcum LT CAPT George L Martin ChC USN Ret RADM Hugh J Martin USN Ret Cecil L Marshall S1c PO Edward Marshall Martwick SN ETC H. L. Masden USN Ret PO James W Mathis SA Victor G Matusek LT PO RADM Eugene F May USN Ret PO Warren Carl Mayer F1c PO Timothy F Mc Carthy WT3c Jack Wilson Mc Coy RM3c PO Robert Earl Mc Cracen F1c PO Bertram W Mc Fadden RT1c PO Donald Jr Mc Hugh Billy Cloud Mc Mahon F2c PO  Ship's Motto(Website) Ralph L
Meadows MM1c PO
Maurice Charles Metz FC3c PO Nick Milkovich John A Miller Leonard Miller SA Jay Lester Minnick BM1c PO Ferdinand Otto Mittag GM2c PO Jack E Moffitt F1c James John Morgan S1c PO Junior W Morgan FC3 James Benjamin Morris MM3c PO Rocky Moshell Robert L Muench William Curtis Mulligan CAPT John
L Neff USN Ret
Robert Frank Nepil LT (jg) PO William S Nerosius F1c Harlow E Newman S1c PO Charles L Noel WTC Stephen Nyers USN Ret Lawrence
Jay
O'Neill S1c PO
Wallace James Oberlender S1c PO Clarence I Olmsted S1c PO Walter F Oltmann Jr F1c RADM John N Opie USN Ret Paul Orshoski Sr L L Ostrander GM2c Charlie
William Pacheco SM2c PO
Norman Lester Parvin PhM3c PO RADM Alex M Patterson USN Ret PO John James Pelllowski S1c Shepard F Perrin Thomas Petro Jr GM3c PO William Richard Phelan WT3c PO ADM William K Phillips USN Ret PO WO Martin Pike Jr PO Ralph Pinckard |
Harry E Piotrowski GM2c
Wilbur A Pitcher Henry Mansfield Plaster USN Ret PO Charles Lee Pritchett GM2c PO Clifford E Proctor BM3c PO Capt Robert W Radcliffe ChC USN Ret
Jesse Rangel Sr F1c Wilford Harold Rash S1c PO RADM Kendall S Reed USN Ret Earl T. Reichter S1c PO Walter Philip Reuland CDR PO George William Ringenberg LT(jg) Richard Leroy Ritz S1c Charles R Robinson S1c PO Jim F Rupp AerM1c Winifred W Russell William H Saathoff
Louis Sackman BMMC USN Ret PO Harold F Samples S1c PO Melvin Joseph Sandbo GM3c Stephen Joseph Sandwell F1c Reed Saunders FA (Explosion 1949) Norman D Schaaf SK2c PO George A Schlamersdorf LT(jg) Harold M Schmid  Arthur
Joseph Schulmeyer S1c
Howard Eugene Schultz S2c PO Marvin Earl Schultz MM2c PO Charles Secallus GM3c PO William Richard Segraves GM3c PO James M Selig LT(jg) Harold Vincent Shananhan S1c PO Jonathan C Sharp FC3c Harry L Sheldon LT(jg) PO CDR Lawrence E Sheller USN Ret Richard James Sherry S1c PO Clarence Clifton Shurling S1c Joseph E Sigelnski Al Singleton Frank J Siwajeck F1c Marvin C Skinner S2c Bonnie W Smith S2c Clarence Edward Smith S1c PO Edward Wayne Smith F3c PO Fred H Smith MM3c Peter Sam Smith S1c Henry Joseph Smolarek GM3c PO Charles David Spaulding S1c PO Joseph R Spoto SF1c PO John August Staads PhMC PO LT Vito Stanley USN Ret GM3C Edward F Steinbauer WT2c PO Robert Joseph Steiskal S1c PO James R Stephens SK3c 43-45 Carl Stopher Calvin John Strombeck S1c PO Thomas Mcgill Stroud S1c Fred Leroy Stute S1c PO Roy Swaski EM2 Forrest M Sweet Albert Szaley Fc3c PO Stanislaus Stephen Sztuka MM1c James
Tacinelli Jr S1c PO
Leo Tallant S1c Talmadge (Tom) Lewis Thomas J Talty QM1 Phil Tangredi Emmett Carl Tapley PhM1c PO
William Joseph Tardy Jr S1c PO Clifford William Thorburn S1c PO HerbertDewayne Thorpe S1c PO Michael
John Tomc MM2c PO
Claude Curtis Trahan WT2c PO Meres Junior Tucker F1c PO  Charles Tufts LT(jg)
Luverne E
Van Nieuwenhuise LT USN Ret
Joseph S Velardi F1c (Lost At Sea) PO Charles C Varbero S1c PO Richard B Vivers WT3c John H Von Rhine John W
Waldron
Edward K. Walker George E Walker William A Walker S1c (KIA) PO Wentworth C Wall S1c (KIA) PO Merlyn Walp Leland Junior Watts S1c PO George B Wells F1c William C Wendt SK1c PO Ralph K Wemer Cox PO Floyd West S1c PO William Laville Whitwell S1c PO Richard Edward Williamson Dorr Clinton Wilson RTC PO Ralph O Wilson Jr Ervin William Wimmer Wilmer Jerome Wolf LT(jg) PO Isadore O Woodall Chaplain LT PO Charles R Woodward SK1 USN Ret PO Haywood Milbert Wright Cox Thomas Carnell Wright S1c Wally Wynslovic Robert
Glen Yeager S1c PO
Robert R Younce F2c Steve Yuhasz Michael
Anthony Zaino S1c
Joseph John Zbikowski S1c Kurt Herbert Ziemer CMC |
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 San
Francisco,
California, 2 August 1942
Commissioned 17 July 1943 Decommissioned 1 July 1949 Struck from the active list on 1 March 1959 |
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The
main mast home in Middle
Harbor
Shoreline Park
was dedicated with the presence of Her officer's and crew
for the ceremony on Friday, July 12, 2002 at Oakland, California.
was dedicated with the presence of Her officer's and crew
for the ceremony on Friday, July 12, 2002 at Oakland, California.
Map
and Instructions
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Francisco: 80 East (San Francisco
Oakland Bay Bridge) to 880 South toward Alameda/Airport/San Jose. Exit
to the right (northwest) at 7th Street. Continue straight on 7th Street, past Maritime Street to the stoplight at Middle Harbor Road. Proceed through the intersection and take the first right turn into the MHSP parking lot. From the East Bay: 24 West to 980 West,
toward Oakland. Exit at 11th/12th St. off ramp onto Brush Street.
Continue straight,
and turn right (northwest) at 7th Street. Continue straight on 7th Street, past Maritime Street to the stoplight at Middle Harbor Road. Proceed through the intersection and take the first right turn into the MHSP parking lot.  From the South Bay: 880 North toward Oakland. Take the 7th St. exit toward West Grand Ave. Turn left onto 7th St. Follow 7th St.,going west, past Maritime St. Continue straight on 7th Street, past Maritime Street to the stoplight at Middle Harbor Road. Proceed through the intersection and take the first right turn into the MHSP parking lot. From the North Bay: 80 West/580 East to 880
South toward Alameda/Airport/San Jose. Exit to the right (northwest) at
7th
Street. Continue straight on 7th Street, past Maritime Street to the stoplight at Middle Harbor Road. Proceed through the intersection and take the first right turn into the MHSP parking lot.
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Eulogy delivered by D. T. Rohde CDR USN Ret (SC) USN Plankowner Supply Officer 0n 1 Aug 1988, 45 years after Her commissioning, at the Toledo, Ohio reunion. It
is a
pleasure and an
honor to
be given the opportunity to talk with you about the
finest naval officer all of us have ever
known. It is most fitting that we are doing so while gathered here at Reunion IX of one of the fightinest ships the U.S. Navy ever had. To all of us, for all time, USS OAKLAND and CAPT Phillips are synonymous. We can't think of one without thinking of the other, for he was our Skipper, our leader, our inspiration, and we love him as only sailors can love the man who led them in battle. I
promised
myself I
would keep this
short, but how do you "say a few words" about
someone who had such a hold on
your life for over a year at under wartime conditions who will be in our hearts minds. I want to summarize Admiral Phillips career for that is true measure of the ability and experience of an officer during his 38 years of active naval service spanning three wars he had the following sea duties:
In addition,
he had
important shore
duty assignments. That is the record of a real seagoing
sailor. I have never known
another naval officer who had duty in cruisers, destroyers, submarines and dirigibles; in other words, underseas, on the surface, and in the air. A remarkable record! Now,
you can see from
this list
that he had a broad seagoing experience of some
26 years when he reported as
Prospective CO of USS OAKLAND. That is why he was such an inspiration to us - he was the very epitome of a naval officer, a worthy successor to Stephen Decatur, David Farragut, Hugh Rodman, Willian S. Sims, and a host of others. When we saw him around the ship, he was every inch the Skipper, and we said to ourselves that we had better try to be as good at our jobs as he was at his. That is what leadership is all about, and Admiral Phillips personified it to the nth degree. I
am sure that you all have memories
of his popping up at odd times, in unexpected places. He had a sharp
eye for detail,
and a kindly way of talking to the seamen, as well as the chiefs and the officers. But it was not always so; he could bring you "up with a round turn" if he found you in error. But it was a great comfort to all of us that he was not just a mythical figure up in his ivory tower (the Bridge), but a real warm person who was to be seen in the engine room as well as the ship's office, in after steering as well as a storeroom, and who knew what we were all doing. Those days are gone forever. It was 45 years ago that we joined the ship, almost half a century since, but these thoughts remain an almost sacred part of our memories, to a large degree due to our Skipper, who made such an impression on our lives. Admiral
Phillips entered the Naval
Academy in 1913, a year before WW I broke out
in Europe. He served his country
admirably for 42 years, being transferred to the Retired List of the Navy in 1955. He was much decorated and highly respected by his juniors, his peers, and his seniors, and will forever live in the memories of all of us, as a great, human, warm, competent gentleman and naval officer. As we think about him today, and pay tribute to his memory, I'm certain that he is looking down on us from his place of honor in that great Valhalla in the sky, where all sailors finally go, to rest on their laurels and relish the memories of a long honorable life in the service of their country.
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Last updated December 2007
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E-mail me at phenriott@rtcol.com
Last updated December 2007