17th Ordnance Company

17th Ordnance Company was created at Fort Knox, Kentucky from A Company of the 19th Ordnance Battalion.  The company trained alongside the 192nd Tank Battalion during 1941.  In September 1941, the members of the company were sent to the Philippine Islands to service the tanks of the First Provisional Tank Group.  This roster contains the names of the 149 known members of 17th Ordnance.  It should be noted that as the names of members are learned, they will be added to this web-page.

Next of Kin can seek information on soldiers who are unaccounted for from World War I, World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam by contacting the U.S. Army's Past Conflict Repatriation Branch

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Officers

 

Capt. Richard C. Kadel

1st Lt. Jack T. Woodson

Capt. Fred P. Laboon

2nd Lt. Earl W. Hill+

1st Lt. Wayne R. Fanson+

2nd Lt. Charles W. Krauss+

Transferred to 

86th Field Artillery

2 April 1942

2nd Lt. George T. Holland

Held: Zentsuji, Japan

RAMP: Unknown

 

Transferred to

 Provisional Tank Group

 

Pvt. Milton J. Goemmer+

Sgt. Willard Russell+

Pfc. Malcolm S. Webb+

 

Medical Detachment

 

Capt Max M. Bernstein

 

Cpl. Wilson R. Mouser

 Pvt. Richard A. Combs+

Pvt. Robert S. Cook

 

Enlisted Men

S/Sgt. Winfred H. Adair

Pfc. Morris W. Gibson+

Pfc. Homer Mefford Jr.

S/Sgt. Nevel C. Adams+

Pvt. Uhlan Gillman+

Pvt. John R. Merriman+

Pvt. James T. Aikin

Cpl. Willard G. Glass

Pvt. Joseph A. Mihok

Cpl. Fred J. Allen+

Pfc. Offutt Goble

Pvt. John A. Mikula+

Pfc. Joseph S. Bandych+

T/4 Oscar E. Gordon+

Pvt. Dwight E. Miller

T/Sgt. Charles E. Basham

Pvt. Lloyd H. Grever+

Pfc. Robert E. Mitchell+

Cpl. Henry V. Baumgardt Jr.+

Pvt. Frank W. Gyovai

1st. Sgt. Gerald L. Moffett*

T/5 Von H. Baxter+

Pfc. George R. Hadley

Pvt. George E. Mogyorosi+

Pfc. Raymond G. Beck

 

Pvt. Norman W. Hall+

 

Pvt. Louis Molaro

Pfc. William E. Biddle

Pfc. James J. Halterman

Pfc. Jackson P. Montgomery+

Cpl. Kelly S. Borders

Pvt. Jay A. Hampton+

Pvt. George W. Moodt

Pvt. James P. Boyd

S/Sgt. Allen G. Harden+

Pvt. Robert H. Moss+

Pfc. Rufus Brazzel+

Pfc. Paul K. Head

Pvt. Wayne Murray

Pvt. Fitzhugh W. Brincefield

Pvt. Donald R. Henson+

T/4 Andrew J. Napier+

Pfc. Irvin M. Brosnan

 

T/4 Owen M. Hewlett+

 

Pvt. James C. O'Donnell+

Pfc. Albert G. Broussard

T/4 Carl H. Hiner+

T/Sgt. William D. Oliver+

Pfc. Charles R. Brown+

Pvt. Dexter J. Hollon+

Cpl. Edward M. Olson+

Pfc. John D. Brown

T/4 Virgil J. Holt+

Cpl. Gerald O. Olson+

Pvt. Frank D. Busby

Cpl. Ernest M. Horne+

T/Sgt. Albert J. Onacki*

Pvt. Wilbur C. Callison+

Pfc. Arley Hosey

S/Sgt. Dwight S. Pendleberry

Cpl. Hays Campbell+

Pvt. Robert J. Houghland

Pfc. John E. Phelps

Pvt. Leon W. Campbell

Pvt. Cecil M. Hutton+

Pvt. Marion J. Polakowski

 Pvt. J. W. Carr+

Pfc. Lawrence E. Jackson+

Pvt. Arthur T. Poynter

Pvt. Wayne W. Colvin

Pvt. Frank T. Jemenko+

Pfc. Earl D. Rayhel

Pfc. Aaron A. Combs

Sgt. Euclid A. Johnson

T/Sgt. John E. Ryan

Pfc. Earl M. Conover

Pvt. Shelby Johnson

Pfc. William T. Saunders

Sgt.Ted Cook

S/Sgt. Roy A. Kennedy+

Pvt. Raymond H. Schletterer+

Pfc. John A. Crago

S/Sgt. Basil B. Kester

Pfc. Lee R. Scott+

Pvt. Albert Cuchessi

Cpl. Jack A. Kilgren

T/5 Virgil Sebastian+

Cpl. George Damos

S/Sgt. Frank F. Kindlesparker+

Pvt. Richard H.Shelton+

T/5 Kenneth L. Dawson+

Pfc. John Kinard

Pfc. William J. Sheppard

Pfc. Prospero O. Delano+

Pvt. Denver E. King

Pvt. Clarence E. Simms+

Sgt. Billy S. Derrick

Sgt. Lawrence E. Kistner+

Pvt. Earl R. Simpson+

S/Sgt. Warren R. Dockins

Pvt. Merl W. Kygar

T/4 Reuben Smiddy+

Pfc. Frederick C. Dunn Jr.

Pvt. Roger R. Lawhead

T/4 Eugene J. Sochacki+

T/Sgt. Jack L. Elliott

Pvt. Hayden R. Lawrence+

Pvt. Daniel J. Sparling+

Sgt. Shelby G. Embry

Pvt. Earnie LeMaster+

T/5 Edward J. Swain+

Pvt. Robert E. Faubion

T/4 Harry T. Lorimer+

Pfc. Herman Talley+

Pfc. Harold Feiner

Pvt. Frank J. Lukas

Pvt. Keith E. Taylor+

Pvt. Bernard A. Fields

S/Sgt. James R. Martin

Pvt. Regis M. Theriac

S/Sgt. James R. Flaitz

T/4 Henry M. McCollough+

Pvt. Charles L. Urban

Pvt. Peter Floor Jr.+

Pvt. Raymond H. McGill

Cpl. Walter Vaughn+

Pvt. Paul C. Fonner

Pfc. Joseph A. McGinnis+

S/Sgt. Carl H. Vest+

Cpl. Charles E. Freeland+

Pfc. Charles D. McKenzie

Sgt. Pierce H. Wade

Pfc. Paul E. Furr

Pvt. Thomas W. McKnight

Pvt. Leon L. Wolf

T/4 Joseph A. Gazer+

Pvt. Herbert P. McMichael

 Sgt. Stanley L. Zaronsky+


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