Coastal Patrol

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Duck Club

Founded by Col L. A. "Jack" Vilas, the Duck Club was an unofficial club of Coastal Patrol personnel who made a forced landing on water during an assignmentl. Although there appears to be several variations of the duck club emblem, the most detailed account is described as a red duck overlayed on the blue CAP disc.

112 Members were inducted into the Duck Club. Following are those names that were found through historical research. NAME DITCH DATE Base 3 Wiley R. Reynolds......................................11 JUL 1943 R. J. Cohen............................................11 JUL 1943 Base 5 Albert Crabtree........................................28 OCT 1942 Francis McLaughlin.....................................28 OCT 1942 Lew Rodes..............................................22 NOV 1942 Gates Clay.............................................22 NOV 1942 Wesley C. Wallace......................................02 FEB 1943 Robert Wimp............................................02 FEB 1943 Base 21 Clay S. Swaim..........................................08 OCT 1942 Manfred M. Mashburn....................................08 OCT 1942 Guy T. Cherry, Jr......................................16 NOV 1942 George W. Grove........................................16 NOV 1942 Jack E. Bryson.........................................19 FEB 1943 Roger A. Faulkner......................................19 FEB 1943 Roderic W. Cartier.....................................13 MAY 1943 Robert L. Wagstaff.....................................13 May 1943 16 JUN 1943 Samuel P. Stowe........................................04 JUN 1943 Jesse B Permenter......................................04 JUN 1943 Barthwell L. Willams...................................16 JUN 1943

 

Air Medals Awarded

A total of 824 Air Medals were awarded by Executive Order of the President for service in the Coastal Patrol. The following flying minutemen were awarded they medal for flying in excess of 300 hours each. Following list is incomplete.

* With Oak Leaf

Base 1 Edgar Woodhams Earl B. Wilkinson Richard P. Wallace Robert Underwood Albert F. Titus Robert E. Thomas Melvin A. Smith Marion R. Swaney Rex Sullivan Henry J. Sloan Howard S. Sterne Robert E. Stephenson Leslie E. Steen Charles E. Seiferd Merle C. Keepers John J. Keating Franklin A. Jones Russel R. Johnson Frank T. Schweinfest Vernon R. Jeffries George A. Ruhl Lawrence W. Irvin Fredrick V. Rosenberger Clifford Poley Lawrence A. Pigeon Gino Piermattei John H. Perry Joseph T. Payne Walter J. Orion Gustave A.B. Orr John B. Haggin Emmett Pedley Henry A. Graef James M. Gibson Charles H. Gartrell Duane C. Frazier Richard J. Fleck Allen Muthig Noble D. Mitchell Ray R. Fisher Irwin D. Minter Adolf Karl Fischer Thomas H. Morgan Francis W. Morgan Wyantt C. Farr Edward K. Mills Washing T. Miller Harold A. Meade Asa L. Miller Marlin W. Easton Thomas C. Eastman Joseph H. Dotterweich Roloff M. Dewsnap Jack T. Martin Dale R. Madsen Bertram S. Cutler Randall M. Custer Briggs S. Cunningham Omar W. Crim Fredrick K. Creasey John F. Lankalis Robert S. Blythe Russel W. Berndt Ben Berger Edouard W. Ballantine Jack E. Bagon Ruben Babcock Mason L. Ashford

Base 2 Arthur T. Worth Henry H. Wilder, Jr. Lawrence E. Wilson Carl L. Virdin Howard Turpin, Jr. John N. Vaughan William C. Vance Albert J. Thompson Henry Tegg Warren O. Smith Alex J. Szilky Harold O. Swift Everett M. Smith Alfred E. Suess William A. Scott Thomas Sanschagrin William E. James James Ingram Robinson A. Rogers John M. Robinson Robert C. Remy Henry H. Proctor Gordon C. Prince Henry E. Phipps Roland W. O'Day William B. Nicholson Walter L. Grier Delmont B. Garrett Walter A. Fullerton Ralph J. Fidance Walter B. Mullikin Sykes R. Ewing Robert A. Escott Jack B. Escott Shelley S. Edmondson Robert E. Dodge Irvin V. Leight Glen P. Cook John O. Cogswell John W. Chew, Jr. William G. Caulfield Howard T. Carter Harvey P. Cannon Smedley D. Butler John R. Andrews Edmond.l Edwards * Hugh R. Sharp, Jr.* Base 3 Bernard A. York Quentin M. Wilson Charles Weeks, Jr. Charles A. Van Wormer Wright Vermilya Alexander D. Thompson Adam G. Thomson David R. Thomson James A. Sapp, Jr. Russell P. Kelly John A. Keil Zack T. Mosley John H. Rothrock Wesley B. Jackson James O. Rose Willis H. Hitt Richard P. Robbins Marshall E. Rinker Wiley R. Reynolds, Jr.

Jay F. Reeve Theodore Hardeen John Prince John S. Prescott, Jr. Albert L. Perry Samuel I. Oldham Kristoffer M. Granning Emerson H. Gates Ector C. Munn James P. Donahue Thomas C. Manning Alfred N. Deacon Carl H. Dahlberg Orville H. Loy Edgar C. Loy Henry F. Lilienthal William M. Layman Clarence C. Coston Cecil Z. Cornelius Ralph J. Cohn Wallace R. King Walter L. Carey Frederic D. Boyd Myron T. Bevington Rex E. Bassett Harry H. Bassett William J. Bailey Richard Z. Atkins Ted F. Keys George E. Kent, Jr. Thomas A. Alban Earl C. Adams Base 4 Richard L. Yuengling Willis S. Young Adam D. White Ferrell E. Weatherman James V. Smith Robert Silverman James F. Stawis Frederick Stanger Clarence L. Savage Murray W. Keeler David H. Jones James T. Rutherford, Jr. Burton B. Howell Ralph G. Holt Aubrey B. Hilliard Trowbridge Heaton Calvin Pardee, III Alfred C. Nowitsky Edward R. Fuller James L. Fletcher Arthur R. Meyers Robert S. Fisher Earl C. Evans Paul V. Meehan Ralph S. MacKenzie Fredric W. Delsroth Billings L. Mann Henry H. Cromartie Thomas P. Lawrence Raymond E. Cooper Daniel A. Breene Isaac W. Burham, II Base 12 Thomas G. Lynch Frank Tavolacci Allen C. Oosterveer Waddel A. Rowse Darrel A. Howard Davis M. Wellman Henery E. Schurman Bayard S. Henderson