In memory of our shipmates and civilians lost in the disastrous explosion aboard the USS Leyte on October 16, 1953 while in the Boston Naval Shipyard.

Shipmates
James Robert Bedford, CHMACH, USN · Leonard Michael De Rose, Lt, USN · Charles Thompson Fischer, Ens, USN · William Achilles Gagas, Lt, USN · Elmer Clearance Holt, CHMACH, USN · Walter Eugene Macomber, CHMACH, USN · Thomas Joseph Meyers, Lt jg, USN · Clinton Howard Randall, Lt, USN · Taddeus Runowicz, CHBOSN, USN

· · · · ·
Charles Thomas Ball, AB3, USN · Thomas Harry Bielecki, SN, USN · Joseph Patrick Capper, AO1, USN · Roland Maurice Conrad, AB3, USN · George David Crespy, ADAN, USN · Gerald Norwin Faulkner, ABAN, USN · Jackie Paul Hackett, AN, USN · Arthur Danvis Harrelson, Jr., AO3, USN · Warren Vincent Hartley, AB2, USN · James Arlin Hildreth, AB3, USN · Nathan Eugene Jackson, AN, USN · Leo Francis Kadlec, AN, USN · Gregory Keenan, AB2, USN · Riley Gene Lintz, AO3, USN · Kenneth Joe Mayhew, AO3, USN · Sidney Mills, SA, USN · Fulton Thomas Mountain, AOAA, USN · Neil Higgins Nelson, AOAA, USN · Joe Albert Patterson, AOAN, USN · George John Quinn, Jr., ABAN, USN · Earl Hilmer Slater, SD2, USN · James Lynn Winslow, SA, USN · William David Wooley, Jr., SA, USN

Civilians
Edward F. Buzyk · Selby Herald · Carl O. Hult · Charles J. Murphy Sr. · John J. Rosa

This monument dedicated by:
USS Leyte (CV-32) Association
September 15, 2001

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