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In many cases these names come from typewritten lists that are 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 by US Mail to the address on the form. To submitvia email, use uscrashbosts@gmail.com; the address on the form is obsolete. 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 record numbers followed by a question mark are numbers found during internet searches and not captured from original rosters or other documents.
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 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 am often unable to verify that records I find are for the person I'm researching.
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