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USS Kearsarge (CV 33) Crew List
The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Kearsarge (CV 33). 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 511 crew members registered for the USS Kearsarge (CV 33).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1947 | 1948 – 1953 | 1954 – 1957 | 1958 – 1959 | 1960 – 1962 | 1963 – 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 – now
| Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black, Stephen | ETN 3 | Aug 13, 1667 – Aug 23, 1969 | OE | |
| Norton, Roger | SEAMAN APPRENTICE | 1942 – 1947 | (Writing on behalf of my father)Our family would like any info from fellow crewmembers who knew our father who passed away in 1969. Pictures would also be great as we have very little info about his navy career. Eddie Coffey was one of his friends | |
| Albano, Joseph | A2 S2 S1 COX, AND HIGHEST RANK AS COXSWAIN | Apr 8, 1943 – Nov 11, 1946 | I am writing this on behalf of my father who passed away in 1981. He always talked of some fond and some not so fond memories of the Kearsarge. Would appreciate any info on a picture I have of my dad and two other sailors in a bar in Morocco. | |
Nadrasik, Arthur (Art)  | PO 3 | 1944 – 1948 | SHIPS SERVICE & SHIPS BOXING TEAM | 2013 Art is still active, & would like to hear from any crewmen that new him. After discharge he spent time building Jeeps. Art married had 6 children & 10grch 4ggrch. He went to school and became a TV & radio repairman |
| Ralph, Frank | RD1 | 1945 – 1947 | I (Radar) | Wonderful duty. If I was not getting discharged, I would have shipped over and stayed on the Kearsarge |
| Kidd, McDonald | CV 33 | 1945 – 1947 | am entering this for my father McDonald Kidd who passed away in 1986. Kimberly Ketcher (Kidd) | |
| Glenn, Billy | AMM 2C | 1945 – 1945 | CASU-22 | |
| Gordon, Irvin "Red" | CPO/DK | 1945 – 1947 | Dispersing | This is made on behalf of my father who served on the original crew of CVS-33. My father passed away in 1997. He was proud to have on that crew. My brother later served on the sister ship CVS-34 during Vietnam. |
| Ott, Eugene | Enginers Mate | 1945 – | unknown | Passed away Was a plank owner |
| Gallagher, John | Seaman First Class | 1945 – Jun 8, 1946 | unknown | Entered in honor of the service of my Dad now deceased. Plank owner. Proud Veteran. Patriotic American. I was the happy recipient of many a Navy tale especially of the USS Kearsarge. |
| Heckenlively, Clarence | GUNNY3C | Jan 10, 1945 – Jun 6, 1946 | GUNNERY | i was aboard while she was still in dry dock in New Jearsy and we scraped and painted the bottom. then took on our ordenance.Then on to Guantonamo Bay Cuba, for a six month shake down. I was discharged about a month later. |
| Manley Jr., John Paul | Ensign JG | Feb 1945 – Jun 1946 | Fire Control/ Bomb Disposal | This is for my father who is deceased. He was a plank owner, and told stories about the first cruise to Havanna with a smoke bomb going off while he was Officer of the Watch and the TP catching fire. Was there an Ensiign Benson? |
| Yorio, Francis | Seaman First Class | Mar 1945 – Jul 1946 | Radar Operator | |
| Todd, Edward | AB | May 1945 – Jun 1946 | I'm entering this for my father, recently deceased. He always looked back on his days on the Kearsarge with a smile. | |
| Wade, Jack | AIRMAN FIRST CLASS | Nov 1945 – Nov 1947 | Flight Deck | Wore a yellow shirt and was a director and spotter. Anyone I worked with, would like to hear from you. |
| Bolsky, Norman | RMSR / SEAMAN 2ND CLASS | 1946 – 1946 | Radio Operator | |
| Bendewald, Otto | GUNNERS MATE 5 INCH GUN | 1946 – | Served as gunners mate on sea trials and first cruise. | |
| Brogan, Arnold H. | Ensign | 1946 – 1947 | unknown | In honor of my father who was a Plank Owner on the USS Kearsarge and passed away June 8, 2010. |
| Devito, Charles | S1 | 1946 – 1948 | VA3A | |
| Due, Elmer / Chris | Ensign | 1946 – 1946 | i don' t know | I am posting for my father who passed away in2003. He loved the Navy and flying. He made a controlled ditching in a Curtiss Helldiver Sb2c. His gunner was A.C.Wise. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers. |
| Presley, Curtis | QM3 | 1946 – Feb 1948 | Navigation | Went on an Annapolis midshipman to England-Scotla nd-Sweden-Denmark. Qualified night landings in Greenl and. Sea station,bridge. Captain McKenna and Captain Leseaure. |
| Blankenhorn, Thomas | BOS\'N MATE 3RD CLASS | Jan 1946 – Nov 1948 | 2ND | |
| Saxby, Robert H. | FC1 | Jan 1, 1946 – Jun 30, 1950 | FOX | Assigned to Pre-Comm crew in January 1946 as a Seaman Second Class. Left ship as a Firecontrolman First Class after de-commisioning at PSNS in June 1950. My first and best loved ship! |
| Kline, Wally | MM3C | Feb 2, 1946 – Oct 1946 | M | The ship was built in the Brooklyn navy yard. We lived in an apartment building on Flatbush Ave, which was taken over by the navy, getting some training during the day untill commissioning Feb 2,1946. I recently purchased a plank. |
| Weinrib, Stan | AS | Mar 1946 – Jun 1946 | AIRCRAFT MECH SPECIALIST | |
| White, Gordon | seaman first class / qm striker | Mar 1946 – Aug 1946 | N Diviaion | The Kearsarge was the second ship I served on after being a member of the crew of the USS West Point, AP23 , our largest troop transport during WWII |
| Sann, George | FIREMAN FIRST CLASS | Mar 2, 1946 – | I was on the commissioning crew. It was a good experience and I felt proud to be on the commissioning crew. | |
| Wojtkowiak, Norbert | F2C | Mar 3, 1946 – | 1Rec | This entry is for my father, he passed away in 1993... i am doing this in his honor |
| Pierce, William | SEAMAN1 | Mar 11, 1946 – Feb 16, 1949 | 4th | plank owner-gun captain quad forty portside best crew ever-best time of my young life |
| Veltri, Louis | STORE KEEPER | Jun 30, 1946 – Nov 29, 1947 | Supplies | Spent most of the time on the East coast on the Kearsarge |
| Hall, Richard "Dick" | SEAMAN 1ST CLASS | 1947 – 1950 | Fire control (gunner's mate) | Entering this on behalf of my granfather who passed away 11 Aug. 2006. Not sure of the exact dates. Would like to hear from any shipmates who remember him. -Rachel Blackwood |
| Coates, Boyd | Ensign? | 1947 – 1948 | 2nd | Entering this for my father, Boyd Ulysses Coates, Jr. He outlined his Naval career, applying for VA benefits for his ears/hearing. Assigned to USS Kearsarge (CV33) April or May 1947. |
| Wielkie, Herbert Roy | RD3 | Apr 15, 1947 – Mar 31, 1950 | O | Came aboard when she was in the Brooklyn Navy yard stayed aboard till discharged in 1950.Great ship. |
| Owens, Edgar | HM3 | Jun 1947 – Dec 1947 | Sick Bay | I am making this entry for my Grandfather. Am intrested in any other Corpsman and medical staff who served with him to drop a line. |
| Erwin, Robert (Bob) | YNT2nd | Jun 1947 – Nov 4, 1949 | Gunnery | I made the Med cruise on the "Big K" and was eventually promoted to Yeoman Typist 2nd. I left the Kearsarge just as she was headed to the Pacific. I was in charge of the Gunnery Office and The First Lieutenant's Office. |
| Wainscott, Horace | F1C | Jul 19, 1947 – Jun 7, 1950 | Fireman | Looking for shipmates. Please email. In Brooklyn, Providence, Norfolk, & Bremerton WA Shipyards. Part of decommissioning crew. |
| Caparelliotis, Cappy | Seaman 1st class | Sep 1, 1947 – May 31, 1948 | Cv-33 | Drowned on failed launch uss kearsarge cv-33 may 311948 |
| Troxell, George W. | MM3 | Oct 17, 1947 – Jun 18, 1950 | M | Worked in #2 Engine Room Represented Engineering dept. on Ships Recreational Committee |
| Long, Joseph E. | SK3 | Nov 17, 1947 – Jun 23, 1950 | Supply | Came aboard as a Boilerman apprentice. Hated it. Got a job in the Supply office and stayed there 3 years. Should have made a career of the Navy. |
| Ellwood, George | QMSN | Dec 1947 – Aug 1948 | Navigation | When the ship was anchored in Hampton Roads channel, Virginia on the eve of getting underway for the Mediterrean Sea, I was the quartermaster of the watch on the quarterdeck that night 33 personnel drowned . |
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