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Captains of the USS Pringle
USS Pringle, commissioned 15 Sep 42, with LCDR Harold O. Larson in command
USS Pringle, change of command Sep 43, LCDR George DeMetropolis in command
George DeMetropolis transferred to the USS Pringle in Apr 43
 as the ships First Navigator before taking over Command in Sep 43
USS Pringle, change of command 29 May 44, with LCDR John L. Kelley in command

USS Pringle Crewmembers

Note: I've received some emails asking why this list is missing many crewmembers.  
When I receive information, photos, newspaper clippings, letters, etc from survivors or the families of crewmembers, I display it here.  
If the person you're looking for isn't listed, it's because I know nothing about him.  
Please send me whatever you have or know about him and I'll create a page for him.  
My goal is to someday have a page for every single crewmember that ever served on this ship.  
These men deserve their place here and their courage, service and sacrifices should never be forgotten!

Click Here to view Division Group Photos 
(Officers, CPO's, Engineers, and new divisions photos contributed by Ralph Herbert Wendt and his son, Michael Wendt on 8/28/03)

Beduhn, Marvin Albert (missing)
Benson, Delbert  (missing)
Boykin, Robert John  (survivor)
Branton, John Artis (survivor)
Bubnis, Charles Michael (survivor) 
Burton, Edward Roy (missing)
Cappuccio, Arthur A. (missing)
Carter, Lloyd Glen (survivor)
Cheesebro, Harold Joseph (survivor)
Cruez, Jack Elmer (survivor)

Cunningham, Robert (survivor)

Chapple, Warren H. (missing)
Churchill, Harry C. (survivor)

DeBartolo, Robert (survivor, aboard the USS Pringle from the day she was commissioned to 16 Apr 45) 

Daniels, Michael Vincent (survivor) Wartime photo, recent obituary, Presidential letter   ~  A poem by his sons

Diehl, Claude (survivor)  
Dymek, Mat (survivor)      Mat remembers the sinking of the USS Pringle
England, Ray (missing)
Fischer, Edwin Donald  (survivor)  

Fischer, Edwin Donald (survivor)     (off site link)

Gebhardt, Jack (survivor)      Recollections by Jack Gebhardt   (off site link)

Golston, Richard J
Haldeman, John (Jack) Carter (survivor)
Haugen, Thomas Russell (missing)

Hoffer, Joseph (missing)

Jackson, Roy Andrew (KIA during the Mindoro Kamikaze attack on the USS Pringle)
Jasper, Benjamin Evans  (survivor)
Jennings, William Raymond  (survivor)

Jordan, James E. (served on the USS Pringle, transferred to the USS Sierra before the first Kamikaze attack)

Larson, Harold O. (Ret. Vice Admiral, 1st Pringle Captain) Oct 5, 1991 Reunion Letter      Obituary

Letowt, John "Leo" (survivor)
Lewis, Jack Quarles  (survivor)
Mapou, Milt (survivor)
Maurer, Charles (survivor)
McAlpine, Wesley Davis  (survivor)
Melvin, Howard 'Muggs' Hunt (survivor)
Messer, Gene Robert (survivor)
Miller, Felix Alvin Miller (survivor)
Minich, Richard William (survivor)
Munro, George Arthur (survivor)
Neal, Doug (survivor)
Pope, David Kenneth (survivor)
Rapp, Charles Paul  (survivor)
Sandelier, Sylvester (survivor & my Dad)
Schugart, Jack (survivor)
Smith, George Washington (survivor)

Sobocinski, Chester Leonard (survivor)

Steck, Dick Werts (former crewmember)
Taylor, Albert Matthew (survivor)

Volpe, Anthony Louis (former crewmember)

Wall, Harry W. (former crewmember)

Wasilewski, John Adam (survivor)

Wendt, Ralph Herbert (survivor)

 

Whitehead, Earnest Franklin (wounded at Vella Lavella /died a few days later)      Photo from a 1937 yearbook

Williams, Thomas Gale (survivor)
Williams, Rexford Carl  (survivor)
Wojciechowski, Clement Leon  (survivor)
Woods, Robert Dudley (missing)
Washington Daily News article about the Vella Lavella attack, dated August 28, 1943