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1962 - USS Cusk (SS-348) Year by Year History

Crewmembers, Pictures and Memorabilia

In 1962 the Cusk was in WestPac which included a Cuban Missile Crisis deployment to the Yellow Sea south of Korea for a 28 day patrol.  Captain Campbell, CDR assumed command of the Cusk from LCDR W. T. Mawhiney.   Ports of call during this WestPac included a stop in Chin He, South Korea, two stops in Hong Kong for R&R and one in Kobe, Japan for training.  Other stops were made in Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan, Okinawa, and Subic Bay, Philippines.

Click here to see a list of the Cusk crewmembers who were aboard in 1962

Cusk memorabilia and crew pictures from 1962 (Click on any item to see its full size):

Special publicity photo for the Cusk

Cusk submerging during a Dependents Cruise

Off the coast of Honolulu, 1962
(Photo courtesy of Herman Strickland)

Publicity photo near Pearl Harbor, 1962

Missile Center Photo

Jim Marchwinski, Jack Trommer and

Bill Hrbacek sit in the Missile Center

before its conversion to Sonar Room
(Photo courtesy of Jack Trommer)

"Aloha" Patch, 1962

This patch was created shortly after the

AN/BPQ-1 (XN-1) Regulus guidance

equipment was removed.  At the time, the

Cusk was home-ported in Pearl Harbor

(Information courtesy of Bill P. Hrbacek)

Cusk being moored with the assistance of

two tug boats.  Location unknown

(Source of photo unknown)

Street scene in Kobe, Japan

Photo taken during the 1962 WestPac Cruise

Cusk Christmas Card, 1962

Street scene in Kobe, Japan

1962 WestPac Cruise

 

Crewmembers who were aboard the Cusk in 1962:

Last Name, First & MI City State Rank/Rate Svc. Date Comments
Alcantara, Emmanuel L     SN(SS) 59 - 62  
Atchinson, Les Auburn CA RM2(SS) 60 - 62  
Bell, Charles A Overland Park KS RM2(SS) 62  
Boles, George     MM2(SS) 62 - 63  
Caudill, Jim D Glade Valley NC FTG2(SS) 60 - 62  
Carlson, Gary     MM3(SS) 62 Eternal Patrol 2010
Chunn, Kenneth E Cypress CA CSC(SS) 58 - 62  
Crosby, Stuart W Keizer OR IC3(SS) 61 - 63  
Czech, Greg Martinez GA LCDR 62 - 63  
Duback, Clyde L Vancouver WA TM3(SS) 60 - 63  
Duncan, Bob Cape Coral FL YN3(SS) 62 - 63  
Fraley, Larry Las Vegas NV IC3(SS) 62 - 63  
Gaito, Eugene     ENC(SS) 61 - 63 Eternal Patrol -  Date Unknown.  "Neptunius Rex" for Shellback Initiation
Gilliam, Herbert D Blue Ridge VA EN3(SS) 62 - 64  
Harner, Harner Vienna VA LT 60 - 63  
Hathaway, Roger Santa Fe NM EN3(SS) 60 - 62  
Hrbacek, Bill     ETR2(SS) 59 - 63  
Kirsch, Nelson Pepper Pike OH EM2(SS) 60 - 62  
Kraus, Roger Castro Valley CA QM2(SS) 62 - 63  
Loewenhardt, Joseph H Honokaa HI EM2(SS) 60 - 63  
Marcum, Claud Wayne WV QM2(SS) 58 - 62  
McKenzie, Richard M Port Orange FL QMC(SS) 59 - 62  
Mitchell     FTG1(SS) 59 - 62  
Murphy, Richard J "Murf" St. Petersburg FL MM1(SS-DV) 62 - 64  
Oxrider, James Santa Maria CA TM1(SS) 55 - 62  
Penrod, Bill San Francisco CA   60 - 63  
Rhoades, Richard C "Dusty" Wheatfield IN EN3(SS) 58 - 62  
Shreve, George Port Charlotte FL YN1(SS) 62 - 63  
Spivey, Jim Goose Creek SC EN3(SS) 60 - 62  
Stevenson, Mike     ET2(SS) 62 - 63  
Swenson, Vernon D Punta Gorda FL ET2(SS) 62 - 63  
Terney, Edward C Malott WA YNC(SS) 62
Thomsen, Art Lansing IL FT2(SS) 59 - 62  
Tucker, Gary     MM1(SS) 60 - 63  
Weberski, Edward Merlin OR CSC(SS) 60 - 63  

If you have any information, pictures, history, or crewmember names/information from the Cusk in 1962 (or any year), please contact the Cusk Webmaster. Thanks!


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This page was last updated: 02/01/12