American Submariners From Tennessee Lost in the Line of Duty – By Loss Date

The men below are listed by loss date. Click on each submariner’s name to visit a page with his personal details.

(* = Photo Needed,   ** =  Died While Held As A Prisoner Of War)

Tennessee Submariners Lost Prior To WWII

• Elvin Leon Deal, Copperhill, Tennessee *
• Robert Preston Thompson, Nashville Tennessee
• Walter Ross Tolson, Fountain City, Tennessee

Tennessee Submariners Lost During WWII

• Julian Knox Morrison Jr., Memphis Tennessee
• David Birch Evans, Born Jackson Tennessee
• Samuel Artist Templeton, Goodlettsville, Tennessee
• Ray Hunter, Born Memphis, Tennessee
• Willie David Thomas, Nashville, Tennessee
• Arthur Castles Beeman, Born Memphis, Tennessee
• Richard Ernest Corum, Jonesboro, Tennessee
• Grover Cleveland Morrison, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee
• J W Wayne Pierce Maryville, Tennessee
• Elmer Howard Russell, Maryville, Tennessee
• Reginald Marbury Raymond, Born Sewanee, Tennessee
• Delmont Norman Pace, Born Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Hyram Paul Guess, Born Ridgely Tennessee
• John Henry Lassiter, Nashville, Tennessee
• Curtis Devault Clark, Erwin, Tennessee
• Joseph Kirby Harper, Lenoir City, Tennessee
• Woodrow Wilson Kelley. Dickson, Tennessee *
• Donald Lewis Keplinger. Erwin, Tennessee *
• William Edward Erhart, Born Memphis, Tennessee
• Fred Giles, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee
• Curtis Glenn, Jackson, Tennessee
• Holly Jackson Howard, Smithville, Tennessee
• James Thomas Stephenson Jr., Wartrace, Tennessee
• Olin Jacobs, Elizabethton, Tennessee
• Kindred Bernelle Johnson, Harriman, Tennessee
• William Robert Busch, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• William Peet Hemphill, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• James Doran Smith, Rockwood, Tennessee
• Charles Gold Smith, Munford, Tennessee **
• Foster Thomas Callahan, Nashville, Tennessee
• Earl Cheatham, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Claude William Roberts, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Hollis Fields Bell, Oneida, Tennessee
• Paul Judson Miller Jr, Memphis, Tennessee
• Milton Lawrence Francis, Memphis, Tennessee
• John Anderson Moore, Memphis, Tennessee
• Robert Luther Hughes, Winchester, Tennessee
• Powell Tilman Saterfield, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• George Clemont Wallis, Jackson, Tennessee
• Howard Owen Garrett, Mount Juliet, Tennessee
• Earl Anderson Webster Jr, Born Knoxville, Tennessee
• Wesley Willard Worthington Jr, Memphis, Tennessee
• George Donald Hendley, Born Sewanee Tennessee
• Edward Franklin Anderson, Born Kennebec, Tennessee
• John Franklin Brown, Ripley, Tennessee
• John Rufus Haney, Medina, Tennessee
• Houston Ernest Edwards, Born Speedwell Tennessee **
• Jack Akers Hurst, Nashville, Tennessee
• Charles Alfred Root, Born Harriman, Tennessee
• Edgar Walker Hudson, Nashville, Tennessee
• Thomas Wooldridge Buckner, Nashville, Tennessee
• Lannie Tolbert Mills Jr, Born Clarksville, Tennessee *
• Clarence Vernon Kibbons, Born Paris, Tennessee *
• William Edwin Dorsey, Born Chattanooga, Tennessee
• James Lester Roberts, Lexington, Tennessee
• Paul Benton Vaughn Jr, Lenoir City, Tennessee
• Joe Lewis Spratt, Wolf Creek, Tennessee
• Walter Madden Gregory, Nashville, Tennessee
• John Hobert Maddox, Cleveland, Tennessee *
• William Thomas Meacham Jr, Born Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Edmund Bixby Kneisel, Kingsport, Tennessee
• Ernest Lynn Ross, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Elmer Ellsworth Gwinn Jr, Born Nashville, Tennessee
• Andrew Jordan Carter, Born Memphis, Tennessee
• Frank Mourfield Lynes, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Clarence Foster Edmunds, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Lawrence Maxon Amburgey, Athens, Tennessee
• William Francis Greaves, Memphis, Tennessee *
• Henry Roy Black, Johnson City, Tennessee

Tennessee Submariners Lost After WWII

• Pat Mehaffy Garner, Memphis, Tennessee
• Frank John Malinski, Memphis, Tennessee
• Virgil Alexander, III Wright, Nashville, Tennessee
• Ike Lankford McClure, Paris, Tennessee *
• Rodney L. Fitz, Hixson, Tennessee
• William Gerald Mack, South Pittsburg, Tennessee

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Tennesseans Lost – Submarine Tender USS Canopus (AS-9)

(* = Photo Needed,  ** =  Died While Held As A Prisoner Of War)

• John Porter Derrington, Paris, Tennessee **
• Paul Reginald Baggett, Memphis, Tennessee *  **
• Kermit Ward Hodges, Knoxville, Tennessee *  **
• David Lexton Latham, Dyersburg, Tennessee *  **
• William Harrison Patrick, Knoxville, Tennessee **
• Charles Richard Tinker, Born Ernestville, Tennessee **
• Alva Roberts Cowan, Born Newbern, Tennessee *  **
• George Dudley Edwards, McEwen, Tennessee *  **

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Tennesseans Lost – Submarine Rescue Vessel USS Pigeon (ASR-6)

(** = Died While Held As A Prisoner Of War)

• Herbert Wayne Grizzard, Nashville, Tennessee **

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Tennesseans Lost While Riders Aboard A U.S. Submarine

(** = Died While Held As A Prisoner Of War)

• John Irvin Kerns, Copperhill, Tennessee (US Marine) **