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USS Tarawa (LHA 1) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Tarawa (LHA 1). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 1049 crew members registered for the USS Tarawa (LHA 1).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1975 | 1976 – 1977 | 1978 – 1979 | 1980 | 1981 – 1982 | 1983 – 1984 | 1985 – 1986 | 1987 – 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 – 1992 | 1993 – 1994 | 1995 – 1996 | 1997 – 1998 | 1999 – 2000 | 2001 – 2002 | 2003 – 2004 | 2005 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cain, Doug | RM1 | 1973 – Jan 24, 1977 | OC | Sent to Pascagoula on Precomm to assist the contractor in developing the Communications System Computer system. Served till discharge January 1977. |
| Ford, Tom | DP1 | Jul 16, 1973 – Jun 1976 | OD | One of 9 men assigned to Littons, to assist the contractor in the completion of the LHA Computer Systems. Then assigned to ships crew. |
| Bacorn, Ron | ABF 3/ CM 3 | Dec 1973 – Jun 27, 1977 | V-4 | Saw John Hess ABF 3 and Ron Partain ABF 2 a number of years ago heard Lt Jones made Capt. I remember all are TADs at San Diego before the ship was commissioned. Wonder what happened to Chief Hudspith. |
| Glaskox, Carlos | 1974 – 1975 | Although I was not a crew member, I assisted in the construction while employed at Ingalls Shipbuilding. | ||
| Stock, Paul | FTM1 | 1974 – Mar 24, 1977 | Weapons | PLANK OWNER--Badass basketball team-MaHOOCH,Doc and Doc,Reed and ME. Going to the 'Y'. to play the BOYS. John Wayne and Spats(Who let JWS drive the golf cart). PRE-COM, Perdiem,Pascagoula what a trip! Clontz I loved my last ten "T" |
| Stahlecker, Bruce | ET1 | 1974 – Jun 8, 1978 | OE | Plank Owner, Precom, Pascagonla, Sea trials, Commissioning, Panama Canal crossing, Acapulco stop, Op Eval off of Camp Pendleton, Shock Trials, Shipyard in Long Beach. I still have tee shirt stating I survived shock trial. |
| Smith, John | FTG-3 - FTG-1 | 1974 – 1979 | G Div/Gun Fire Control | Great memories from precom and the Westpac in 79'. Good friends and good times! |
| Cruz, Jesus | ENCS | Feb 25, 1974 – Nov 11, 1978 | 3-M Coordinator | Plank Owner |
| Pompa, Joe | DP2 | Mar 17, 1974 – Mar 17, 1978 | OPS | Plankowner |
| Yoos, Ralph | IC1 | Mar 30, 1974 – Jun 15, 1977 | E | Plankowner IVCS / APS / GYRO Tech |
| Stenton, Brian | ABF1 RETIRED CWO | May 1974 – May 1979 | V-4 LPO | Great ship great crew. To all Air dept Pers...ABCM Wilbet Martin USN RET. Passed away July 2002.Great friend and shipmate. None better |
| Pastula, John | FTG1 | May 1974 – Aug 1979 | F | Any other Pre and Post-Commissioning people on this? love to hear from you... Have lots of pics left I can share... |
| Pollard, Dale | YNC(SW/AW) | Jul 1, 1974 – | X | I was the second man to report to the nucleus precommissioning crew located in Pascagoula, MS. I have been and remain deeply proud of my service on board TARAWA and I'll never forget all the YN personnel,. |
| Anttila, Vern | FTM2 | Aug 1974 – Jan 1977 | Weps | PreCom in San Diego to Inital crew in Pasgagoula. Sea Trials in the Gulf. Order of the Ditch. Had a great time with a great bunch of shipmates. |
| Harris, Rodney (Harry) | OS2 | Sep 1, 1974 – Aug 25, 1979 | OI | Served 5 wonderful years in the Navy and miss it everyday. I'm now a retired Air Traffic Controller and live in Plymouth, Mi. Our son is a 2nd Lt. in the Air Force currently overseas. Our daughter is a teacher. |
| MacNamara, Joe | DS 2 | Sep 6, 1974 – Dec 18, 1978 | Ops | Data Systems Technician, Plank owner, Order of the locks. |
| Anderson, Jeff (Andy) | QM | Oct 1, 1974 – Oct 28, 1976 | Navigation | Plankowner...part of the best damn crew in the world! |
| Norwood, Kevin | DS2 | Oct 1, 1974 – Jul 1, 1977 | OE | Plank owner, went to LHA2 in summer of 77, Plank owner there also |
| Treziok, Walter | CWO3 | Oct 10, 1974 – Apr 1, 1977 | S1/S6 and S3 (Supply | PLANK OWNER. First Aviation Stores Officer. Commissioning cermony escort for the widow of General Julis C. Smith. |
| Ainsworth, Robert | BM1 | Oct 23, 1974 – Oct 10, 1977 | Second | Plank Owner, trying to get in touch with some of my buddies. |
| Clayton, Brooks | OS1 | Oct 27, 1974 – Dec 7, 1977 | OI | Commisioned ship Precom LPO San Diego transit |
| Berry, Keith | OS3-OS2 | Nov 1974 – Jan 1978 | OI | Received orders out of A school, spent many months waiting for the ship. On Precom and commissioning crew. Never forgot the blast tests. Went to the decommissioning Dec 04, 2008 Grand time! photos at http://www.nwcricket.com/tarawadecom |
| Mejia, Francisco | ABH2 | Dec 1974 – Nov 1979 | V1 / C/S | First ship. Enjoyed the time aboard. Learned fast. Good crew. Great Liberty. 2nd tour DEC '81' - Jun '85 (AW) USN (ret). |
| Banks, William | MM1 | Dec 30, 1974 – Aug 15, 1977 | A Division | Lots of Long Hours |
| Clontz, Steve | GMG3 | 1975 – 1979 | Weapons | Plank owners from Weapons Div. please contact me |
| Batley, Raymond | BM 3RD CLASS | 1975 – 1979 | 1st and 2nd | I missed the guys i served with.Great guys and some really fun times. |
| Hogan, Sean | AN | 1975 – 1979 | V-1 | I'm Riding my Bike cross country from NY to make this reunion in vegas I hope plenty of the plank owners are coming me , Inman ,Kowalik, Clatt , Mcnair Dex Howell will all be there. I hope more will join us |
| Wenck, Patrick | E3 | 1975 – | 2nd | Plankowner and went to the Decom. A rare experience and one I will always cherish. |
| Miller, Richard | RM2 | 1975 – 1977 | communications | Plankowwner, great times pascagoula, better Acapulco |
| Case, Gene | HT3 | 1975 – 1977 | shipfitters | Plank Owner, Several months in the ingalls shipyard tracing out the pipelines and relabeling them and or repairing what was needed. |
| Tolaro, Vincent Splash Or The Fonz | ABF 1 | 1975 – Jul 18, 1978 | V4 | Plankowner AN when l was on the ship. I left in the Navy in 1978, came back in 1982 did shore duty at NAS Lamoore CA. Made ABF1 did Sea duty on USS John F Kennedy and finally went on the TDRL list at NWS Yorktown VA. |
| Huybrecht, Mark | EM 2 | 1975 – Dec 13, 1976 | E | Plankowner,precom crew,Panama Canal transit was great experience.Passcagoula 500 was highlight of time in Mississippi. |
| Clark, Robert | YNSN | 1975 – | X Division | First assigned to the Chaplain's office (Ed McMahon, Fast Eddie) as clerk, then later to the Engineering as Chief Engineering Officer clerk |
| Joffrion, Joseph | E2 | 1975 – 1975 | deck | came from training in Millington, TN to precom at barracks 57. |
| Homicz, Henry | SH1/SHC | Jan 3, 1975 – Apr 15, 1977 | S-3 | Plankowner S-3 Div LPO Made E-7 onboard |
| Ouellette, George P. | YNC/ISC | Jan 3, 1975 – Apr 1978 | OZ | TARAWA is now a decommissioned ship and will be towed to Hawaii at the end of March 2009. There she will be in the reserve fleet and maintained so that she could be rapidly re-commissioned to join the fleet again if necessary. |
| Goucher, Norm | AG1 | Jan 3, 1975 – Dec 31, 1976 | OA | Enjoyed most of the time aboard even tho spent most of it at Fleet Training Center, 32nd St in San Diego. Worked on Admiral's Staff at Coronado Amphib Base for 3 months and then back to Precom Detail as Training Officer. |
| Purrington, Dan | RM3 | Mar 1975 – May 30, 1978 | radio | plank owner now retired |
| Perez, Ruben | E-5/AK-2 | Mar 1, 1975 – Aug 1, 1976 | S-6 | Made close friends onboard and joined the Pascagoula Little Theater. Became attached to the Piper family from Cali while there. My roommate while on Pre-com was Scooby. A special time in my life. Retired Associate Warden |
| Pompa, Joe | DP2 | Mar 10, 1975 – Mar 17, 1978 | OPS | A time of my life I will never forget. Made many good friends. Too bad I was not able to make the decom ceremonies. It would have been nice to set foot on board one more time. |
| Erickson, Mike | ABH2 | Mar 12, 1975 – Feb 12, 1979 | V-1 | Plankowner, CTT1(SS) USN-Ret |
| Kirk, Donald | ABCM Command Master Chief | Apr 1975 – Aug 1977 | command? | Master Chief Kirk passed away on Nov 22, 2010 He was the perfect sailor and father. He will be missed! |
| Hill, Charles Hill | SMCS | Apr 16, 1975 – Apr 18, 1979 | Comm/comphipron7 | Plankowner/seatrails/commissionoing/Panama/mexico/westpac and returned on Staff duty.I would love to be able to attend the decommissioning. |
| Webb, Dave | MS2 | May 1975 – Feb 1979 | S-2 | Plank Owner S-2 Div Chief's Mess, Last of the true "Stewburners". Naval Station San Diego Flag Football Champs 1975. We should have went pro. Cross planks in 1988, I was over 6 feet tall, joined & retired U.S.C.G. |
| Shoter, Richard | ABH3 | May 1, 1975 – Dec 19, 1977 | AIR-V1 | Still looking for a year book for the yrs. of 1975-77 was in with martin,holt,erickson,slimgoodie,washington, all ABH'S,in V1 I was on spot 6 for almost a 18mo. Does anyone every here from Wishom, or the cook Dent? |
| Ocegueda, Carlos | ET5 | May 1, 1975 – Feb 28, 1979 | Electronic Technician | Plank Owner. Wonderful time taking her thru the Panama Canal to San Diego and various test. Spent 11 months retrofitting her in Long Beach naval shipyard before going back to SD and then being discharged prior West Pack |
| Landrum, Steve | EM2 | May 9, 1975 – Oct 17, 1979 | E | Pre-com in San Diego. Pascagoula crew, shake down, etc. Plank Owner Panama, Order of the Ditch. Acapulco, San Francisco, San Diego, Long Beach (dry dock), back to SD 1979 West-Pac. Domain of the dragon, Shellback |
| Powers, Steven | MS3 | Jun 1975 – Feb 1978 | Supply | Plankowner. Member of Precom and commissioning crew. Really enjoyed the trip through the Panama Canal. |
Kornegay, Harvey  | PN2 | Jun 1975 – Jun 1977 | Admin | Plankowner. Remember losing power off the coast of Cuba going form Ingalls to San Diego. |
| Wischmann, Donald | AK2 | Jun 1975 – Sep 1977 | S-6 | Plank Owner |
| Castner, Chuck | QM2 | Jun 1, 1975 – 1976 | Navigation | I was a plank owner on the #1. We were based out of 32nd street in San Diego andI was only a pup. Played basketball for the ships team and severely broke my ankle which eventually lead to my ending up at Balboa Hospital. |
| Fisher, Larry | HN3 | Jun 6, 1975 – Jan 1, 1980 | USNR | Looking for someone that knows the location of avionics on Oriskany (CV34) I’m planning a scuba dive on the ship and if possible I would like to stick a camera in a porthole and take some pictures (father worked there). |
| Seaman, John | GYSGT | Jun 10, 1975 – Nov 15, 1977 | Nuclues Landing Force Staff | Best tour I had in the Marine Corps. Other than one Master at Arms who was a jerk. Crew and officers were the tightest group I ever worked with. |
| Dalton, Bill Doolin | EN3 | Jun 18, 1975 – Aug 21, 1977 | A | Plankowner What Ingalls couldnt make work. We did and that goes for the whole crew. |
| Kuning, Bob | EW1 | Jun 18, 1975 – Aug 16, 1977 | Ops | Joined Tarawa precom detail in mid 1975, plank owner and sailed her through the Panama Canal (very memorable). Participated in shakedown and RefTra, but never went too far from SD on board before I got out. |
| Hearon, Barry | EW2/ EW1 | Jul 1975 – Feb 1979 | OI | Plank Owner- Looking to contact EWC Dennis Kemper, EWI Bob Kuning- Also, EWC Fontenot (Frenchy), who made CWO and was transferred, don't remember where. |
| Riley, Mike (Peewee) | EM3 | Jul 5, 1975 – May 21, 1977 | Engineering | Plank owner. Loved every minute I served aboard Tarawa. Greatest shipmates ever. Go F-Troop. If you see this you will know what it means. Great times in Pascagoula,Panama, and San Diego. Great friends! |
| Brady, Donald | En 3 | Jul 30, 1975 – Feb 20, 1979 | A gang | Plank owner,pre com crew. Panama crossing..spent time at installs before com |
| White, Dan | OS2/OS1 | Aug 1975 – 1980 | OI | Plank owner. 79 was great cruise.Lots of great shipmates. Know the wherabouts of some, but would like to hear from others |
| Giovannucci, Mike | MM3 | Aug 1975 – 1977 | engineering main control | Pascagoula , barracks, canal, Acapulco, memories, plan on vegas in 14 |
| Colvin, Rodney | E-3 | Aug 1975 – Aug 28, 1981 | deck 2nd | |
| McNair, David {dangerous} | ABH-3 | Aug 12, 1975 – Oct 7, 1979 | V-! | I am a plank owner of this fine ship! and very proud to be a member of the first crew ever! This makes me a plank owner,my best friend is gary clatt and still is. We have stayed in touch and all is well. I wonder where,holt,harbin,linder and frantz b |
| Lavery, Larry | ABH2 | Sep 1975 – Jan 2, 1977 | V-3 | PLANK OWNER I was pre-com detail San Diego I made good friends and have good memories. Old friends please write |
| Burch, Rick | E3 | Sep 1975 – Sep 1979 | V-1 | Plank Owner, Would like to hear from some of the guys in V-1 and other areas. Sure did have some good times on and off the ship, and the 1st Westpak. |
| Mahoney, William | ABH-3 | Sep 1975 – Sep 1979 | v-1 | Was a new sailor on the TARAWA.Didn't like theNAVY,at first.but as cruise went on,ITWAS THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE !! I got many lifetime friends,and the greatest life experiences.E-mail:zonariverrock2003@yahoo.com |
| Fullenwider Jr., Wallace E. | DP2 | Sep 1975 – May 1979 | OPS - OD Dept. | Precom/Plank Owner, Was reasigned in the middle of WestPac 1979 to FCTCP Point Loma Cal. as a Instructor for LHA Management Information System - Operations/Programming |
| Holly, Rick | OS3 | Sep 1, 1975 – Feb 22, 1979 | OI | TARAWA REUNION: GO TO WWW.TARAWAREUNION.COM |
| Smith, James | Li3 | Sep 10, 1975 – Nov 8, 1975 | x-div | I was in deck div 2. then to x-div 1977 after the Boat Crane accident. |
| Pereyda, Ken | seamen | Sep 17, 1975 – Sep 17, 1978 | first | Like to see the plankowners at the reuion |
| Larsen, Clint | e2 av | Sep 18, 1975 – Nov 20, 1977 | crash crew | plank owner precom |
| Dukas, Harry | MS3 | Sep 19, 1975 – Feb 27, 1979 | S2/S5 | I had a great time onboard her. I met some of the most intelligent people on the face of this planet. I would like to say that I am extremely Proud to have served aboard her and very Proud to be a PLANKOWNER! |
| Evans, David | ETN2 | Oct 1, 1975 – Nov 10, 1979 | Operatios | |
| McNair, David (Dangerous} | PO2 | Oct 11, 1975 – Oct 11, 1979 | V-1 | I david just wanted to connect with anyone that might of remembered me good or bad,I am a fireman in tracy ca. and retire in 2008 not far off just wanted to say the tarawa was the best command I saw in my 10 years of service hello to all |
| Naqin, Jim "bm3" | BM3 | Oct 28, 1975 – Oct 28, 1979 | 1st | Plank owner/ First Westpac |
| Milam, Mike | RM1/RMC | Nov 1975 – Jan 1978 | CR | Plankowner. Spent a year in Pascagoula, MS. precom crew, then finally got off in Jan 78. Went back as RMC from Feb 81- Jul 84. Total 5yrs 9mos onboard. Had good times and bad times but it all counted toward retirement. |
| Howell, Dexter "Fly Dog" | ABF3 | Nov 1975 – Aug 1979 | V-4 | Plank Owner.It was good to see people at the reunion.Hope to see more at the next one. |
| Wenck, Patrick (Trapper) | BMSN | Nov 1, 1975 – Apr 4, 1977 | 2nd | Deck Ape and proud of it. LCS Operator, Flying Squad, just a young Boats. Plank Owner. Just saw her today transiting through San Diego harbor. Great friends, excellent men, miss the times. Fair winds, following seas to the current crew. |
| Reynolds, Randy | ABH-3 | Nov 15, 1975 – Sep 21, 1979 | V-1 | Plank Owner, and very proud to have been part of the first crew. I guess it was really that many years ago. Retired now and lots of great memories. |
| Freeman, Robert | gmg3 | Nov 18, 1975 – | deck | Had fun with great people. Saw some pictures before decommissioned she changed some, I didn't see 5"54, mark45 or 20mm? contact me., |
| Kondracki, Richard | YN2 | Dec 10, 1975 – May 25, 1979 | Executive/Admin | Had a blast, can't believe it's over 30 years ago. Dennis O'Keefe and I are going to the decommissioning in San Diego on December 3 and 4th. Hope to see you there. |
| Lemon, Randy | ET2 | Dec 19, 1975 – Sep 1, 1978 | OPS | Plank Owner Radar Tech |
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