USS Corry DD-463 - IN MEMORIAM

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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