Evening star., 1945-09-09
Ships LIST Local Men
Off Jap Shores al
Time Of Surrender

Many washington area men were
"in on the kill" during the pre-
surrender bombardment Of the Jap
anese mainland, and others were
aboard ships in Tokyo Bay while the
actual surrender signing took place,
according to combat dispatches re-
ceived here. Ships of the Pacific
Fleet which had hand in bringing
about the Japanese capitulation and
which carried Washington men in
clude the warships Alabama, Simms,
Yolo, Malabar. Quincy, Shangri-La,
Oakland, Idaho, Yorktown, Essex
and North Carolina.
Aboard the U. S. S. Alabama:
Collins R. Epps. siignalman !, e35 N
and Tomlin, Cabin John, Md; Coxswain
Walter Bissel. Eighth street; Seaman / &c
nHe Msm Silver sprnF Nd Aber.
P. Sutton, Greenbelt, Nd.
Aboard the U. S. S. Yolo:
Rudolph C. Nelson, motor machinist's
mate sc, 1881 Harvard street NV.
Aboard the U. S. S. Malabar:
Louis Plavidal, jr., fireman 1/c. 742
N. Dinwiddie street, Arlington.
On the U. S. S. Quincy:
s gSrR ssvon street zsDSesy s% joseph e. nev.
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sfeet sW msia 5ames 81 fasn esc
srieianS mate $/c' i4a, 1345 Downing street
1910 Massachusetts avenue NV: U. S.
/, Herndon, Va, and 1t. Samuel W. w.
Sh0 t 5esssp 1 and EaTn kodda k al
OF Alexandria.
On the U. S. S. Shanghai:
NV; Capt. Thomas M. Coggins. U. s. M.
G. 1884 Garfield street NV: 1t. q: 81
NV; 1t. Harold Winkier; John F. Hur-
ley. ships cook 3 Lc, 6l00 Fourteenth street
NM Henry poTt C mssser chief Raehnis
Fourteenth ent 4 street NV ]. Robert T. @ sny,
pfs pace NW and James naas sas1y
trieians mate 2zc' 1873 Fifth street NE,
Also, Robert H. Hite. fireman lc 4541
man l ic, 3142 North street NV; Robert
W. stephens. seaman 1Ic 1925 P street
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T. s;rest sysGS SE nasRihss ca's Martin, lI ~
ssrh sn c 1erefs sos SM Eevehth Street NV NV W M
Sc; William W: sharp; chief sumner S
NV: James Richardson, stewards mate
EeysRsh street NT
ISres \ u C. rs; s714 ~'aa 4eath street ~fsSi
street E; comdr. James F. ,2Hil-
ter, ,2al2 Thirty:second street NV
Donad Mec95mick pharHSsis's coma mate
| Perry L. Mitchell 1900 Patrick Henry
Drive, Alexandra, Va, and. 1t. John D.
Rooney. 1925 North Keniiworth street,
Alexandra.
| Aboard the U. S. S. Oakland:
! Robert Savage. stewards mate &c, 1888
steward d mate mate sc, sc 3e5l oakdaie street,
Clap c place NE. ~
Aboard the U. S. S. Idaho:
James E; Eilers; seaman 2,c, U; sN NR, I
kins, seaman lfc 2101 N twentieth
street, Arlington.
Aboard the U. S. S. Yorktown:
Richard W. Bracket, sunner's mate B. C,
661 street NE.
Aboard the U. S. S. Essex:
=, Robert G Smith: seaman 2,c. q s.
Louis W. Greed, aviation ordnanceman , c,
2aOl Army,Navy drive, Arlington: Ray
w Pss Psssf; ehe eon s'eS Cox ses
man 1lc. 1874 A street Sc; Edward S.
Vermillicn, aviation machinists mate, 620s
Fifth street NV; Robert B. Morton, cox
swain, 726 Thirteenth street Sc, and
William j La Corte, seaman 1ic, 522
Twenty-second street NV.
Aboard the U. S. S. North Caro-
lima:
James A. Hasue, chief yeoman, .629
4 Girard street NE; Richard A. Bishop
machinist's mate &c, 141o Fifty-second
place NE; John T Carr, gunner's mate
&c, 1885 Peabody street NV; James r
Caudie, seaman, 1ic, Clifton, Va; Allen
r. Southcomb, electricians mate 3jc, 4122
New Hampshire avenue NV; Stanley
Gould, radarman sc, 3s3 Oranse street
Sc, and Harry Thompson, musician 2jc.
3406 Rodman street NV.
Aboard the u. S. S. Simms:
! Gerald J. Niessen, seaman sc. 172G
North Adams street, Arlington. Va, ano
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