This page is dedicated to the gallant Sailors of the USS STERETT (DD 407) who gave their lives during the Third Battle of Savo Island (Guadalcanal) on 13 November 1942

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Sea2c

BM2c

Sea1c

F2c

CTM

SC3c

Sea2c

Sea1c

Fc2

GM2c

Sea1c

Fc2

Sea1c

Sea2c

Sea1c

Fc2

Sea2c

RM3c

Sea2c

Cox

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Sea2c

Perry C. Flack

Lloyd J. French

**Hubert T. Godecker (*)**

Harry H. Harm

Edward S. Hazard

George R. Jackson

A. B. Klepacki

L. J. Koproski

Clifford W. Koss

Kenneth L. Kreilick

Matthew A. Kula

H. G. LaChapelle

Chester J. Lanczak

Vernon R. E. Martin

Arthur Normandie

Carmen S. Perry

Leo J. Pete

Amos F. Pike

R. D. Poschke

J. E. Robinson

Charles D. Ruth

Dale R. Smith

Joseph Smith

Morris E. Smith

Ronald G. Spaulding

James P. Stapleton

Joseph M. Tynan, Jr.

W. S. Walker

William J. White

**(*) Hubert Thomas Godecker jumped overboard and was never recovered.**

“By custom, a person was declared dead one year and a day after they went missing. His actual date of death is November 14, 1943.”

BM2 Godecker is buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Republic of the Philippines.

**The book Tin Can Sailor misidentifies James I. Grann, Jr. as MIA “M.”**

Reference is James I. Grann III obituary who was born in 1946 to James I. Grann, Jr. and Lucille (Bowers) Grann.

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