USS Pringle (DD-477)
Launched at Charleston, S.C. on May 2, 1942
Lost to Enemy Action off Okinawa on April 16,1945
In Memoriam
Vella Lavella - August 21, 1943
John Villani • Ernest F. Whitehead
Mindoro - December 30, 1944
James F. Bennett • Thomas F. Fugazzi • Roy A. Jackson •
Dee C. Clark • Jerry Holubicka • John Kowalick •
Michael Corriero • Theophil F. Hudy • Clifton R. Liewald • Frank Poniatowski • Edward L. Wilcox
Okinawa - April 16, 1945
Rex W. Allen • Arville B. Clarke • Joseph J. Hoffer • Harold F. Rienke • Thomas M. Anderson • Gerald R. Cone • William V. Hutson • Nevil Rodgers •
Russell Atkinson, Jr. • Garvin J. Crook • Michael J. Jozovich • Douglas N. Rogers • William A. Baker • Joseph DiSantis • John P.Keeley • Roy R. Rossini •
Kenneth E. Barth • William J. Egerer • Warren R. Keister • Homer Sherrill • Marvin A. Beduhn • Ronald B. Ely • Robert C. Kirsch • Paul W. Smith • Elbert E. Benson • Ray A. England • Samuel E. Knox • Tillman N. Smith, Jr • Wilbert M. Benson • Wendell H. Fidete • Hugh W. Kyle • Vincent T. Sosnowski • Flavel W. Bowen • Charles A. Floyd • Charles L. Latham • Pete M. Spraitzar • Robert B. Brookover • Blas A. Gil • Sam Loiacono • Vernon W. Tauer • Edward R. Burton • Gerald F. Gorges • Charles E. Lucker • James W. Thomas •
Wallace H. Cable • Gordon S. Graham • Charles W. Lutz • Homer D. Thomason • Arthur A. Cappuccio • Charles L. Gose • Walter D. Martin • Edward F. Wallen •
John M. Caraian • Bennie G. Hancock • Aaron Nisenbaum • Joe E. Wampler • Warren H. Chapple • Nels M. Hansen, Jr. • Leonard W. Odom • Albert D. Webb • Thaddeus J. Chrusciel • Thomas R. Haugen • James W. Paylor • Alfred C. Wolf • Winston L. Churchill • Ernest E. Hawkins • Joseph Piccolo • Robert D. Woods • Frederick M. Hicks • Cecil J. Riddell
The ship was named for Vice Admiral J.R. Poinsett Pringle, USN, who was born at Georgetown, S.C. in 1873 a direct lineal descendant of Judge Robert Pringle, whose law offices on nearby Tradd Street were established in 1742, Vice Admiral Pringle had been selected by President Roosevelt to become Chief of Naval Operations before his sudden death on September 25, 1932.
Marker is on E. Battery St..
Courtesy hmdb.org
