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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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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