IN MEMORIAM
USS Corry DD-463 Shipmates
June 6, 1944

 

In memory of the 24 USS Corry shipmates who gave their lives in the Normandy Invasion: “We, who remain to carry on, should not think of our shipmates as departed from us, but rather as having been transferred to a celestial ship or station, where we hope all of us may be shipmates again.”
 

 

Charles Nelson Baker
Steward's Mate, 2nd Class
Virginia

 

Orilien Francis Beaudry, Jr.
Seaman, 2nd Class
Massachusetts

 

Norman Bensman
Lieutenant (jg)
Wisconsin

 

James Andrew Borderieux
Watertender, 3rd Class
Pennsylvania

 

 

William Henry Braunwarth
Seaman, 2nd Class
New Jersey

 

Auvergne Stephen “Frenchy” Breault
Torpedoman’s Mate, 2nd Class
Michigan

 

Erastus Charles Brewer
Chief Machinist's Mate
Georgia

 

John Chombor, Jr.
Seaman, 2nd Class
Ohio

 

 

Stephen Vincent Figura, Jr.
Seaman, 2nd Class
Pennsylvania

 

Dana Earle Fogg
Boilermaker, 2nd Class
New York

 

James Evans Gearhart
Seaman, 2nd Class
West Virginia

 

Richard Earl McClyment
Watertender, 3rd Class
New Jersey

 

 

Nicholas Peter “Nick” Mitchell
Watertender, 3rd Class
South Carolina

 

John Thomas “Jack” Newmyer
Watertender, 3rd Class
Indiana

 

Gerald Franklin Pahl
Watertender, 3rd Class
Ohio

 

Bernard John Petersen
Chief Machinist Mate
Nebraska

 

 

Joseph “Little Ski” Radzinski
Watertender, 2nd Class
New Jersey

 

Felix Peter “Big Ski” Rovinski
Chief Watertender
Massachusetts

 

Lewis William Sessions
Machinist’s Mate, 1st Class
Florida

 

Paul Eugene Stambaugh
Gunner’s Mate, 2nd Class
Pennsylvania

 

 

Robert Venard Thompson
Seaman, 1st Class
Texas

 

Frank George “Whitey” Tomcho
Seaman, 1st Class
Pennsylvania

 

Bernard Wade
Machinist’s Mate, 2nd Class
Georgia

 

Joseph Victor Zemola
Seaman, 2nd Class
Connecticut

 



Thanks to Denise and Jan Breault for their extensive research in finding many of the above photos. 

Newspaper article reporting Corry shipmate 
Auvergne Breault as Missing.




Click here to view names of Corry shipmates on the
Wall of the Missing in Normandy
.


Charles Baker            Orilien Beaudry, Jr.    Norman Bensman
William Braunwarth   Auvergne Breault       John Chombor
Stephen Figura, Jr.    Dana Fogg                  James Gearhart
Richard McClyment    John Newmyer           Gerald Pahl
Joseph Radzinski       Paul Stambaugh

 


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