United States Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II
1941 - 1945
Side A
In memory of those who plied the North Atlantic routes, the Murmansk run, the Invasions of N. Africa, Italy, Normandy, Philippines, Okinawa and every other major Invasion around the Globe.
Recruited as an all volunteer group to man 3,640 new ships in addition to the 1800+ ships and crews already supplying England and Russia. 92% of all gasoline, oil, ammunition, bombs and other necessities of life were supplied to every American Fighting Front around the world by USMM ships.
Casualty rate was 0.1% below the Marine Corps. Normal ratio killed to wounded was 1 to 2.3. USMM ratio was 3.46 to 1.
866 ships sunk or damaged.
609 crewmen taken POW with 54 dying in prison camps.
Side B
Kansans Died at Sea
Wilford A. Bailey • Louis D. Bobbitt • Abe Ediger • George E. Guilford • Norman Hanson • John C. Preston • Glen C. Schmoker • Orville Starlin, Jr. • Emory N. Veatch • Ralph E. Wilkinson
Kansans POW
Joseph D. Hebble, Jr.
Wounded
Glen E. Trimble
USMM Highest Decoration
Richard G. Matthieson (DSM)
Edwin J. O'Hare (DSM)
Regional Mariners of WWII who made this memorial possible
[Honor Roll not transcribed]
Courtesy hmdb.org
