I just found another Ship named for Crew Members of the USS Juneau (CL-52)
This list I believe is now complete, but I'm still researching it.. USS Juneau (CL-119) USS Juneau (LPD-10) USS Blue (DD-744) USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) USS The Sullivans (DD-537) USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) USS Sutton (DE-771) USS Sutton (DE-286) (canceled) USS Oberrender (DE-344) USS William M. Hobby (APD-95) USS Russell M. Cox (DE-774) (canceled) USS Gearing (DD-710) USS Coates (DE-685)
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Stephen Powell
6/12/2014 05:20:15 am
Thank you for remembering the Juneau's crew. Although I never met my uncle Clarence Daniel Powell, I will never forget him and the others who died.
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Peter
7/16/2014 12:58:40 pm
Stephen, if you have a photo of your uncle I would be honored to post it here.
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Patti Abernethy
7/17/2014 11:14:00 pm
My uncle, Charles L. Caulk, Jr. went down on the USS Juneau. I am not sure if he were part of those on the rafts or not. It is tragic that most people do not know that there were 150 who survived the torpedoes and we did not find the 10 men until 8 days later. How can we ensure this part of history is not forgotten so that we do not make that mistake again? Whom do we contact to get history books to be correct? Who could make a movie of this story like the Indianapolis? When I went to the WWII museum in New Orleans and read the plaque with the 5 Sullivans on it and saw that it said something about "poor communications" as the reason why the men were not found earlier, I contacted the director and showed him the historical evidence that "communications" was not the reason why we did not get them. I showed him that Halsey relieved Hoover of command as soon as he heard that the other ships had not looked for survivors. After he and his team researched my information and found their own sites for confirmation (I am sure), the plaque in the national museum has been changed to reflect accurate history of the USS Juneau--our family members were "Left to Die" as Kurzman writes. I also called the last survivor of the USS Juneau and while he did not know my Uncle Charles, he kept insisting that the US government has never acknowledged to him at least, the mistake it make. Even in 2004 he still felt the loss of those men with whom he served.
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Kathleen Thomas
9/30/2014 12:46:42 pm
Walter Zubos, Chief Yeoman on the USS Juneau, was my great uncle.
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Kathleen Thomas
9/30/2014 12:54:19 pm
Thank you for starting this blog, and shedding light on the history of the USS Juneau.
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Teresa Lewis
3/11/2017 12:00:19 pm
https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/1093/media/c720a710-149e-4c64-9ffe-54c9b3f4e1a2.jpg?client=Trees&imageQuality=hq&maxWidth=1349&maxHeight=659
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Gladys Day Simons
3/20/2018 01:53:33 pm
My husbands half brother Robert Eric Edsall died on the Juneau in 1942. He worked in a tiny space as a radio operator, It would mean so much if we could get more information than we have. My mother in law grieved for him her whole life and hoped someday he would be discovered
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