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In many cases these names came from typewritten lists that were not very clear and may be mis-spelled. Click on the "eyeball" at the left of the individual record to see the full record. You can click on a column heading to sort this list by that category; clicking again will sort it the other diriection (A-Z or Z-A).Once you have a last name, or a list of possible last names (ex: Mc) you can sort that list by first name to speed your search. To add or edit people, please click to download the Crew List Data Form and after you complete it to the best of your knowlege, even if you only can add a little information, and save it to your computer and submit it either byemail or US Mail to the address on the form. The form takes a little time to download. If you have problems with the form, go to the Contact Us page and send me an email with the information you have.
The list of Emergency Rescue Boat Squadron numbers has been moved to the History of Crash Boats.
Ancestry.com was the internet link to much additional information but the data is less reliable than the data I was able to enter from original records.
Service numbers followed by a space and then a question mark are numbers found during internet searches and not captured from original rosters or other documents. In many cases there were several people with the same name, including middle initial and I have included the birth year of the individual who's information I have entered. If you know that I have selected the wrong person, please contact me so that I can correct the information.
I usually had very little information on the individual on which to base Ancestry searches. The "Year" toward the end of a record is the year of death and if the "Status" is marked "Probable" or even "Possible" it is due to the limited information I had available with which to verify information.
To complicate matters, many burial records started using Social Security numbers instead of service numbers by the time of the veteran's death, so even with their service numbers I was often unable to verify that records I found were for the person I was researching.
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