Lifejacket Memorial List

 as of 11/4/2017 in chronological order

LT. HAROLD BLEYHL, USNR

LCI  (L) 812 WWII

LST 1O80 KOREA

In Honor of

the Crew and Officers of LCI (G) 568

as a gift by

JOSEPH A. DUMENIGO SK/2C

In Honor of RENE J. FOURNIER

 SM 2/C LSM 54 and

LCI (L)/LC (FF) 503 

In Honor of

 the Crew and Officers of LCI (L) 226

by a gift from

 Lt. Commander O. LANDON MILES

In Honor of

KENNETH E. PRATT Tech 4/C

218th Field Artillery 41st Division

In Honor of

 the Crew and Officers of LCI (G) 346

as a gift by

 JOHN SILER PH 1/C

In Honor of

 LAVAR STARK

Executive officer

 LCI (G) 546 – LCI (L) 1017

In Honor Of

GEORGE B. BENTON

MoMM 2/C  LCI (G) 752

In Memory of

 Commanding Officer

 LT. jg ARTHUR N. CHERNIN LCI (L) 364

In Memory of

 WILLIAM MCVICKER

 CS-3 LCI (M) 638

In honor of Albert Pipes LCI (L) 481

by his proud

Children and Grandchildren

In Honor of

Phil M. Cosper

Skipper LCI (L) 481 WWII

By his loving daughters

In Honor of

Joseph N. Coccia

LCI (L) 39

In Honor of the Officers and Crew of

LCI (L) #713

By a gift from “Skipper”

LT. Gordon Houser

In  Honor of

Leroy E. Foley ETM 1/C

LCI [M] #804

In Honor of

William D. Stotesbury

MoMM1c,  USNR
DD-499 USS RENSHAW WWII

John J. Disponzio WWII

Gunners Mate LCI 1012,“Our Hero”

America “is” because of you

With love your family

RM3 Robert D. Deviney, UNSR

LCI(L) 566, LCI (G) 457, LST 612

WWII Pacific Theater

From sons Bob Jr., Mark, Steve & Lance

In Honor of

LT. Melvin Greene

LCI 661, Asian Theater

RMC Jacob L Ritzen USN

Monrovia APA-31 Cold War

Spiegel Grove LSD-32 Cold War

General George M Randall T-AP-115

Joseph George Lt. Cmdr.

LCI [L] 612

LCI [L] 1022

LSU 531 Korea

Robert Carew Miller

Chief Engineer U.S.M.M.A.

U.S.M.M. Combat Veteran

Herb and Roz Glickston

In honor of our Children

Rick Holmes and Sue Cosper

GM1(T) William Clyde Clayton, USNR

USS Sumter (APA 52)

September 1943 – January 1945

ACM APCM WWIIVM PLR

Gilberto Escobedo

GM3/c 8417354

LCI(G) 437 LCI(G) 345

Marshall, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa

George Henry Esler Jr,

LCI(L) 432 USNR EM3C(T)

South Pacific

31 March, 1944 – 8 August, 1945

Alfred Waggoner RM3/c

LCI 675, LCI 355

Robert H. Anderson S 1/C

D.O.B. August 30, 1926

LST 725, LCI(G) 752

G.C. Talker 21-22 20mms

CDR. Donald C. DuBrul USN

USS LCI(L) 553 Omaha Beach

USS Sandoval APA 194 Korea

USS Argonne AG31 Pearl Harbor

Howard B. Clarkson MM01/c

LCI 537

DE 764

In remembrance of

The crew of

LCI(L) 635

Lloyd M. Spahr BM2/c

LCI(L) 615

Southwest Pacific

Wayne D. Smith

Electrician2nd Class

LCI 337 WWII

Roy C.(Shorty) Galewski

LCI(R) 224

Wesley F. Davis

Gunners Mate 3rd Class, USN

LCI 515 (Omaha Beach)

IN MEMORY OF THE CREW OF

LCI(G) 82 (OKINAWA INVASION)

DONATED BY FORMER SHIPMATE

S1C DALE ROWLETTE

SMC EARL E. STEIN JR USN(RET)

LCI (M) 802 WWII, KOREA, VIET NAM

1962 ATOMIC TEST, CUBAN BLOCKADE

Joseph L. Gage, PhM1c

LCI (L) 1074 South Pacific

LT JOHN H. BEAHM JR. USN

USS LCI (L) 689 WWII

LST 735 KOREAN WAR

LST 1178 COLD WAR

IN MEMORY OF CREW OF LCI 396 (G)

MOST ARE GONE,

BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN

Jimmie A. Prime RDM 2/c

LCI 373 (G)

WWII

In Honor of the Crew

of the LCI [R} 643

Vince Boylan MoMM 3/C

ENSIGN FRANKLIN P. WUERFEL U.S.N.R.

LCI (FF) 399 OKINAWA WWII 1945

In Honor of PT Boat 658

And its Crew

Bob Alton

Jim and Joan Harp

USS Tom Green County

LST-1159

QM1/c Robert J. Ziegler, USN

LCI(l) 595, Europe WWII

LCI(M) 595, Pacific WWII

USS Elder AN-20 and AN-30, P.I.

Lt. jg James J.Strand, USNR

LCI(L) 1016 WWII

Long Beach, California

Ensign Sigurd J. Bjertness, USNR

KIA 24 Oct 1944, Leyte, Phil. Is.

LCI(L) 1065, sunk by kamikaze

James Paul Burnett MoMM1c

LCI(L) & (G) 347 WWII

James R. Hale USNR

Radioman 2/c

LCI 455 WWII Pacific

Military Vehicle Collectors Club

of Oregon

In Memory of S1c Edward B. Sorrentino

LCI(L) 966

From his children;

Karen, Dianne, Joseph, and Edward

In Memory of

Frank K. Hyde Jr. AOM 1c

USS Enterprise CV6 Oct 42 - Aug 45

And In Honor of “Our Greatest Generation”

Our Dad and Grandfather was LT Joseph Rowe,

LCI #1. Thank you to Gordon Smith, LCI #43

and crew for rescuing some #1 crew and Dad,

who was wearing 2 lifejackets

August 17, 1943 Lake Bizerte Tunisia.

Lieut. Albert W. Green

LCI 94.

Oklahoma City, OK

EMCM Donald Johnson USN (Ret.)

Lt. Marian K. Johnson NSCC (Ret.)

United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps.

MOMM-2C WAYNE P. CALDWELL

LCI-89 NORMANDY

LCI-320 OKINAWA, JAPAN

PAINESVILLE, OHIO

Leslie H. (Larry) Curry

AP 168 Warhawk and LCI 470 1942-1945

born 12/9/1923 - died 12/27/2010

In loving memory from Netty, your wife of 64 years, your children and family.

In Honor of Robert Carew Miller

Chief Engineer U.S.M.M.A. Kings Point

U.S.M.M. Combat Veteran

Son, Mark Carew Miller

In Honor of Gordon Smith QM 1/C

LCI-43 North Africa WWII

AFMM Chairman of the Board

With admiration from the AFMM Crew

In Honor of Ed Bartlien

41st Signal Company “Jungaleer”

1st Boat 1st Wave Zamboanga

In honor of the crew

of the LCI [G] 366 by

Herbert M. Mueller BM 1

In honor of

SSgt. Clayton L. Johnson AUS WWII

T5 James H. Hoadley AUS WWII

George Y. Harry III

Lieutenant, USNR, Captain LCI 1015

New Guinea and the Philippines:

Three Stars

In Honor of Americus Baggiossi

LCI-370 LCI-523 Coxwain

Normandy Invasion and Southern France

Asia Pacific Theater WWII

ARNOLD MOTZ

American Field Service

Volunteer British Ambulance Driver

AFRICA BELGIUM EGYPT ENGLAND FRANCE GERMAN HOLLAND

 

In Memory of James H. Lovell ’42-45

US Merchant Marine Engineering

Pacific Med Atlantic Mid-East

Stanley Willner

WW II POW: 1942-1945
Death's Railway

Chris Shelvik SM 2/C

LCI [R] 337

LST 1015 - LST 1060

Lt Col Reuben C Newcomb, Retired 1962

US Army 1st Armored Div - Engineer Btn

 WW2 Landings:

 N Africa, Sicily, Italy, & S. France

Lewis A. Mason, S 1/C(GM)

USS LCI(G) 407

6 Invasions in Pacific WWII

Yukon, OK 73099

In Loving Memory of

CDR Clarke H. Brooke Jr.

LCI(L) 361 WWII

Philip Reed

LCI 35

Sicily-Salarino-Anzio-Normandy

In Memory of

John A. Farkas (Jack) Qm3c 1945

LCI 444

Robert E. Wright EM1c

LCI (L) #20 #997 #996

From his sons,

William, Robert & Richard

Glenn Jones Jr LTJG CWO

LCI(FF) 994 Flagship LST Flot 21

Sept 5, 1944 –Dec 15,1945

Iwo Jima - Okinawa - Japan

In Memory of

Elmer J Windle

Stanley Barlow, QM 3/C

LCI(L) #725

Thomas Radel Barnett SC/2c

LCI(G) 727 WWII

LCI 713 Restoration Crew

For Dad

William Gordon Montgomery

I Love you, Billie

J. E. Warne, Jr. MOMM 2/C

LCI (L) #602

Kenneth Gerald Morris EM 3/C

Hometown: Flint Michigan

LCI (L) 881 Okinawa & Nagasaki

DONALD EXTER

SEAMAN 1/c

FOR THE CREW OF LCI (R) #767

Felix Albert Polasek, USN

GM, 2C LCI(L) 430, WWII

For all my brothers who served

 in the Pacific Theatre

On behalf of:

Electronic Chrome and Grinding Company

Phillip Reed

Richard H. Gunn

Great Bend, Kansas

RDM3c LCI (L) 1092 USN

LT Harold E Yahnke, USNR

LCI(L) 737 2/28/44 – 5/14/46

Peleliu Angaur Tianjin Shanghai

In Honor of

DONALD J. RAGNO Lt (Jg)

LCI (L) 43  LCI (L) 530  LCI (L) 1021

In Honor of

"Jack Rottiers"

WILLIAM "BILL" KINKEAD MoMM1C

LCI(L) 8, 1942-1944, N. AFRICA,

SICILY,  SALERNO, ANZIO, D-DAY

In Loving Memory of my Amazing Father

Gordon E. Carlson LCI #455

03/28/1922 - 05/13/2012

 

John Cummer Capt. USNR (Ret)

GM3C USS LCI(L) 502

George Elmer Menhorn Jr. QM3

LCI (G) 438

1943-1945 (Pacific)

Dr. Michael A. Pikos

Proud son of WWII Vet

Anthony M. Pikos, LCI(L) 14

Anthony M. Pikos, Chief Petty Officer

First Class Signalman, LCI(L) 14

WWII US Navy (1942 – 1945)

NORMANDY, SICILY, ANZIO, SALERNO

 

ARTHUR JASEAU RM2c

USS LCI(L) 1094 1944-46

GUAM, SAIPAN, IWO JIMA

AL, APA-17 '44 & BH, CV-17 '46

In Honor of Brent R. Finch

LT. JG WWII Iwo Jima, Okinawa

LCI(G) 80

1943-1945

To Honor My Father, John Stilley

Who served on LCI-726 during WWII

With love and Admiration

Nancy Lambert

Henry Levine, MoMM3

USS LCI (L) 606

USNR 1943-1955

In Memory of

Lloyd Glen Neikirk

LCI 489 - Normandy Invasion

1919 - 2010

In Memory of

Harvey W. Wright Jr. Rdm 2/c

The Naval Amphibious Corps

USN LCI (G) 752 & 566

Albert T. Paasch RM2c ---- American Theater; European

Theater; Purple Heart; Unit Citation; Campaign Ribbons

WWII ---- Apr 7, 1942 – Nov 14, 1945 ---- LCI (L) 20

Sicily-July 10, 1943; Salerno- Sept 3, 1943; Anzio- Jan 22, 1944

Robert A Brekken QM 1c

 Victory Medal; American Theater; Asiatic-Pacific

WWII – July 7, 1945 – July 13, 1946

 USS Alamosa AK 156 (Ammunition Ship)

Louis L. VanNatter, Pontiac MI

209th AAA Automatic Weapons

Battalion, New Guinea 1941-‘45

 

In memory of: 

Don Hamilton & Harold Kalshnek

KIA on LCI(L) 20 at Anzio, Italy

January 22, 1944

Vito P. Colamussi LCI(G) 77

He loved the USA, US Navy

He Loved his family

Carlos Danville LT USN

LCI (R) 71, LCI(R) 74

Asiatic-Pacific Theater WWII

In honor of my father:

Charles Webster Kellogg Sr, WWII Superintendent

Albina Engine, Portland Oregon LCI Builder

By Charles Webster Kellogg II

In honor of my mother:

Doris Margaret Kellogg, WWII Launcher of LCI 1018

Albina Engine, Portland Oregon

By Charles Webster Kellogg II

Lloyd Spahr BM 2/C

LCI {L} #615

Quartermaster 3rd Class

Bernard A. Delserone

USNR

LCI(L) 237

Carl A. Lantzy Electricians Mate 3rd Class

LCI(L) 947 WWII Pacific Theater

B-29 rescue off Guam 13 July 1945

From: Wife Marjorie, Sharon, Mike and Pat

Ben Stables MoMM 2/c

USS LCI(L) 496

Normandy – Omaha Beach

D-Day June 6, 1944

Rear Admiral Albert Sackett

LCI (R) 34 and LCI (R) 74

And their Crews

In Honor of the

Crew of LCI(G) 442

Asiatic Pacific Theater WWII

From: Max Rutman Ships Cook 3/c

Jack Lawson

LCI 365 – July 1944

MoMM 1/c

LEE FOLEY,  ETM 1/C

LCI [M] #804

 

Walter T. Autry MoMM 1/c

USS LCI(L) 688,

WWII 1941-1945

Korea 1951-1953 AFDM5

Kenneth F. Benson

WWII, US Navy Amphibious Forces

Flotilla 3, Pacific Fleet, LCI (G) 442

Gunner's Mate First Class

In Honor of Robert Fairfield, Henri Deltieure, Harold Koslow

Joseph Ott, John Grillo, Charles Loguidice LCI 596 (M)

Invasion of Southern France August 15, 1944

 

In Memory of

Jack Moses LCI(FF) 1083

First in Hiroshima

In Memory of

ENS Ralph T. Phillips, Jr. USNR

Executive Officer & Plank Owner LCI 71

29 Dec 1942 – 1 March 1944

 

In Honor and Memory of

Elmer Kinsinger

LCI(G) 65  Asia Pacific WWII

In Honor of Robert Shingler

LCI(L) 662

Asia Pacific WWII

Carrol Thomas (Buss) McCarley

Radarman LCI(G) 407-422-467

Flotilla 13 - The Blackcats

Leyte-Luzon-Manila Bay-Okinawa

In honor of

Norman N. Greulich

MoMM 1/C LCI 343

In Memory of Erle Brady Momm 2/c

LCI 456 WWII

Donation by

Jim West and Julie Mennenga

In Honor of Frank G. Love

LCI(G)64

Commanding Officer

Vaughn O. Brown, Seaman 1/c

LCI(R) 1077

Iwo Jima – Okinawa

Mike Reed and Dale Reed Honoring our Dad Philip Reed M.O.MM 1st Class L.C.i-35

In Memory of Leon C. Rodriguez
SC 2/C & Crew, USCG LCI(L)-323
WWII N Africa Salerno Normandy

In honor of Robert Stanley Hudgens LTJG

Commander LCI(G) 471

Awarded the Navy Cross for Extraordinary Heroism

17 February, 1944 at Iwo Jima

In Honor of Ralph Roylance

LCI(FF) 1080, Okinawa

In Honor and Appreciation of Jerry Ubigau Captain USAF

For being an extraordinary volunteer

 and supporter of the AFMM

From all the Crew

LTJG Jack Moses – Uvalda GA

Diesel Engineer – LCI(FF) 1083

Fair Winds and Following Seas

We love you Daddy/Papa

Quartermaster 3rd Class

Bernard A. Delserone USNR

LCI(L) 237

David Reed SM 1/c

LCI 35 – LCI 188

WWII Sicily, Anzio, Salerno, Southern France

In honor of the crew and officers of

LCI(L) 62

LT(jg) Harry W. Weeks Jr.

LCI(L) 62

In honor of James A. Rogers Jr. Ens. USNR,

The officers and crew of LCI(L) 527

Love, your children and grandchildren

Lt.  Frank  Symosek

LCI  [L] 12  and LCI [L] 23

Dale Newcomb

B Co. 5/60 9th Infantry Division

June '67 Amphibious Landing to Island in

Saigon River w/M113 Armored Personnel Carriers

 

Robert F. Heath

Radio Seaman 1/c

USS LCI(G) 404

In Honor of

Donald L West - LST 493

By his son James L West

Walter N George Jr.

LCI 23

In memory of Donald J. Ragno

 LCI (L) 43, 530 & 1021

George Oakes GM X/C

In honor of the crew

On LCI(G) 69

In Honor of Robert D. Johnson
MOMM 2/C  LCI(L) 777  WWII Pacific
with Love from his children

Lt. Donald Glen Wilcox, USNR

LCI(L)-1020

Pacific Theater WWII

LT. Ralph M Rayner

LCI 944

In Honor of the Crew of the

USS Eldorado AGC-11

In Honor of BM2c John Hansen

USS Long USS Henry T Allen (APA 15) LCI (L) 713

By His Proud Daughter and Grandson

Robert W. Cronk

BM 2  US Navy

USS Cooper survivor 

In honor of

Jack W Bolling, S1 USN

In Honor of

LaVerne Charles Flynn

BM 3/C LCI(G) 347

By Joseph T. Flynn, brother

In Honor of

Bob and Claudine Neely

Harlan G. Erickson, F1c (MoMM)

USS LCI (L) 972, USS LCI (L) 1021

Philippines - China

Donald L. Walker LCI 986 & 690

Commanding Officer, Pacific Theater

From his Children, Grand Children & Great Grand Children

 

In Honor of

Walter Mylo Hyland (Iowa)

LCI 42 Anzio

LCI 665 Southern France

Burnell. J. McConnell.

Gunners Mate 2/c Bow Gun

LCI (G) 77  Asiatic-Pacific Theater

 

In Honor of

Crew of LCI 462

Carl Naejele – Max Vangord Momm

In honor of Engineering Officer William P. Miller & the entire crew of LCI(G) 464.

Action in Saipan; Navy Unit Commendation for action in Guam, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Okinawa.

By his proud sons, grandchildren, great-grandchildren & spouses.

ABRAHAM LAURENZO RM 1/c

LCI  409 & LCI 47 
March  1944 thru March 4, 1946

Invasions of Normandy and So. France

In Honor of the Crew of

The USS Denver LPD-9

In Memory of Paul Jampol  1924-1970

    USS LCI (L) 530 QM1C

    01/07/44 to 09/25/45

     D-Day Utah Beach & Southern France

Roger Felton

Restoration Crew USS Hornet