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Updated 3/9/18

"Standing Guard"
Photo by: Frank Glick-MSP Taken at the National Cemetary at Minneapolis and appeared in the Minneapolis Star/Tribune

Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
Know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell...

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"One More Roll"

Capt. Jerry Coffee, USN Ret.

We toast our hearty comrades
Now fallen from the sky,
And gently caught by God's own hand
To be with Him on high,
To dwell among the soaring clouds
They knew so well before,
From dawn patrol and victory roll
At heavens' very door.
And as we fly among them there,
We're sure to hear their plea:
"Take care, my friend,
Watch your six,
And do one more roll...just for me."

Click on name for memorial information

• Capt. Edward K. Andrews
  Born: ??,1942 Died: September 16, 2014


• Cmdr. John Baals
  Born: August 5, 1932 Died: August 1, 2019


• Thomas J. Bennett ADJ 2
  Born: December 3, 1941 Died: May 23, 1964 (USS Independence Flight Deck accident)


• Cdr. Ward L. Berkey-
  Born: 1922 -- Died: January 14, 2009


• W.W. (Bill) Best AT2
  Died circa 2007 - Details Requested
  Also see "Guest Log" Page 1 this site]


• Capt. Eugene "Bz" Bezore
  Born: January 11, 1926 -- Died: April 7, 2007


• Capt. Cole Black-
  Born: Nov. 28, 1932 Died: Nov. 9, 2007


• Richard (Dick) Bowns AE3
  Born: Nov. 6, 1943 Died: Aug. 4, 2007


• LTJG Norman Lee Bundy
  Born: Jan. 26, 1941 Died: Sept. 6, 1966 (North Vietnam)


• Cdr. Ralph E. Cheney
  Born: Jan. 2, 1916 - Died: March,17, 1997


• Capt. Gerald "Jerry" Coffee
  Born: June 2, 1934 - Died: November 13, 2021


• Capt. Paul T. Corrigan
  Born: ??? Died: November 19, 2006


• Capt. Robert O. Coulthard
  VFP-62 Commanding Officer circa 1963
  Born: Nov. 2, 1921 - Died: Jan. 23, 2005 Information Requested


• Updated 5/30/23 Lt. Cdr. George E. Custer Sr.
  Born: May 22, 1926 Died April 4, 2014


• Updated 5/26/23 James J. D'Ambrosio
  Born: ?? -- Died: Jan. 3, 2015 Information Requested.


• John Lee D'Amico ADJ3
  Died May 23,1995


• LCDR Ron Datka
  Born: October 2, 1935 - Died: May 17,1999


• Cdr. John DeChant
  Born: May 13, 1932 Died: March 5, 2018


• LTJG Richard L. Dieterich
  Died July 19, 1958 on a VFP-62 mission over Lebanon


• Capt. Willard D. Dietz
  Born: Died: November 20, 2010


• Ed Duffy
  Born 26 Jul 1945 and died 25 Feb 1988


• Carl Dugger, PHC
  Died April 14, 1994


• Capt. William B. Ecker
  Born: April 6, 1924 - Died: Nov. 5, 2009


• Lt. Marlin Vincent Egert
  Born: ?? - Died: Oct. 8, 1979


• Capt. Edmond Feeks
  Born: November 29, 1929 - Died: April 26, 2016


• Cdr. Wyatte F. Foard Jr.
  Born: Aug. 18, 1932 - Died: March 27, 2007 Atlanta, GA
  buried Naval Cemetery Pensacola


• Adm. Frank Edward Foltz
  Born: September 26, 1920 - Died: August 13, 1974
  (information requested)


• Capt. Lawrence B. Gallion USN Ret.
  Born: Feb. 16, 1934 - Died: Mar. 7, 2008


• ?Harold? Gray AE2
  Died: approximately late 1957 - early 1958. He was trapped between an NC 5 and a TV2 on the ramp at VFP 62 line. The transmission engaged and jumped the chocks pinning him between the unit and the plane. His death led to the procedure change that two men would always be on hand to operate the NC 5 one to plug in and operate electrical generator panel and the other to stay in the driver seat on brakes during hight power running.
  
  Update (3/3/15)Gray had just returned from Med cruise. Don't remember what ship. It happened on afternoon shift; I don't remember what aircraft he was working on. I saw him hook up the NC5 and went into hangar when it happened. It was in the evening in August or September 1957 and know it happened very soon after their cruise came back. Dave Stokes AD3
  (information requested)


• Cdr. Norman R. Green USN Ret.
  Born: April 11, 1940 - Died: April 1, 2023


• Richard "Dick" Leon Gregory AEC USN Ret.
  Born: Aug. 25, 1930 - Died: July 19, 2018


• Jerry Harvey
  Born: August 29, 1942 - Died July 22,2018


• Updated May 26, 2023 Capt. Morris "Mo" Hayes
  Born: August 31, 1930 - Died August 24, 2020


• Updated 5/26/23Leslie M. Holst
  Born: December 15, 1943 - Died September 29, 2007


• Donald Jusko PT2
  Born: May 20, 1941 Died: July 25, 2016


• Capt. LeRoy W. J. Keith
  Born: June 20, 1916 - Died: October 25, 1982


• Cmdr. William Newby Kelt
  Born: October 6, 1928 Died: May 6, 2021


• Capt. Edwin (Ed) Kiem VFP-62 CO 1957-58
  Died Sept. 8, 2008, age 91


• LT. James T. (Jim) Kirkland Jr
  Born Dec. 22,1930, Died Oct 28, 1986


• LT. Cdr. Bernard W. Kortge
  Born June 30,1927 - Died June 7, 2015


• Forrest James Lane Sr. ADC
  Born: Jan. 6 1921 - Died: April 10, 2011


• Capt. W.C. Larry
  Born: Aug. 21, 1925 - Died: Jan 6, 2003


• Updated 5/25/23 Cdr. George Lawniczak
  Born: ?? - Died: June 1, 2015


• Capt. Frank Liberato
  Born: ???? - Oct. 3, 2013


• LT Robert E. Lynn
  Died Dec. 21, 2006 (information requested)


• Paul J. Maracz AT2
  Born: March 8, 1940 - Died August 15, 2015


• Rod Martin
  Born: ?? - Died Nov. 20, 2015 Information Requested


• Cdr. Thomas C. Mauney
  Born: May 6, 1928 - Died June 11, 2020 Information Requested


• LCDR John M. McCall
  Born 1930 - Died Feb. 19, 1964


• LT. Jerry McDonnell
  Born August 8, 1929 - Died April 2, 2014


• Clifford M. Montney
  Born Jan. 30, 1943 - Died April 9, 2015


• Glenn James "Bud" Moore AMC
  Born March 16,1941 - Died: February 26, 2023


• Alwin E. Morsch
  Born April. 17, 1942 - Died August 28, 2015


• Gerald Musgrove
  Born: November 28, 1947 - Died March 10, 2015


• Capt. Claude Navarrette
  Born: Oct 4, 1925 - Died: October 25, 2010


• William Thomas Newby PHCM
  Born: Jan. 29, 1939 - Died: July 8, 1921


• Edward C. Newman PHC
  Born: - Died: 1986


• Capt. Henry C. North Jr.
  Born: November 10, 1932 - Died: March 3, 1996


• Lt. W. G. Offerman
  Born: June 1933 - Died: May 22, 1961


• Capt. Charles E. Ray
  Born ??? - Died: May 4, 1998


• Jim Rettenmeyer
  Born: February 9, 1938 - Died: June 17, 2011


• LTJG John Richard Richardson
  Born Feb. 9, 1935 Died April 8, 1963


• Thomas S. Roberts, PH2
  Born: August 10, 1942 - Died: May 27, 2013


• Arthur W. Scarborough PHC
  Born: August 4, 1929 - Died: November 25, 2015


• John Sees PH2
  Born: February 27, 1944 - Died: January 2, 2018


• Lt. James Shaver Jr.
  Born: October 23, 1934-- Died: October 31, 2009 Information Requested


• Captain William A. Shryock
  Born: September 14, 1915 - Died: June 29, 1989


• Capt. Dave M. Sjuggerud
  Born: April 21, 1942 - Died Nov. 26, 2008


• Dale Smading ADJ 3
  Born: Jan 9, 1938 - Died in 2004 from a brain tumor


• Adm. Carol Castleman Smith Jr.
  Born: August 7, 1930 - Died: October 14, 1983


• Donny J. Stacy ADJ 3
  Born: Died: July 27, 1965


• Updated 5/21/23 John Starkey PH1
  Born: October 16, 1937 Died: Sept. 13, 2016


• Cdr. Bernard F. "Skip" Staub
  Born October 4, 1935, Died Nov. 2, 2005


• (Updated 8/28/23) Robert Nathaniel Stiles PH2
  Born: October 2, 1935; Died: March 11, 2013.


• Marion Reynolds Swinford ADJ2
  Born: January 9, 1938; Died: May 17, 2023.


• Harold L. Tanner ATC
  Born August 20, 1932, Died Dec. 18, 2007


• LT William L. Taylor
  Born unknown, Died: December 28, 2006


• Clyde Henson Thomas, Jr. ADC
  Born January 31, 1924 - Died: July 11, 1968


• CDR Richard Keith Thomas
  Born unknown, Died 1983


• Jim Trenoskie
  Born: - Died: January 27, 2022


• Gerald Tucker
  Born: May 31, 1944 - Died: June 27, 2010


• Kenneth R. (Ken) Tuel PN
  Born: Sept. 6, 1937; Died: June 9, 2000.


• Robert J. Walters
  Born: Jan. 8, 1934 ; Died: July 16, 2016.


• Updated 6/15/23 McKinley "Mac" Warnell
  Born: Feb. 5, 1938 - Died: August 4, 2013.


• Robert (Bob) O. Watson ATCS
  Born ?,?,1930 Died: Dec. 31, 1998


• Jim Weaver Sr. ADC
  Born Jan. 14, 1941 Died: Jan. 24, 2016


• Updated 5/19/23 Ray Wittenauer
  Born: August 3, 1941 Died: May 2, 2015


• LT Christopher B. Wilhelmy III
  Born: October 23, 1935 - Died: February 17, 1966


• Capt Alan S Wilhite
  Born January 4, 1927 Died Nov 17, 2011
  Updated 1/23/14:Information Requested


• CDR George Winslow
  Born July 5, 1924 Died December 13, 1996


• Frank Wolle PHC
  Born: August 13, 1926 Died: January 29,2002


• Cdr Norman L. Youngblood Jr.
  Born: Oct. 20, 1928 - Died: Nov. 10,1997

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