AUGUST W. LENTZ, JR., LCDR, USN
August Lentz, Jr. '26
Lucky Bag
From the 1926 Lucky Bag:
Loss
August was lost when USS Wasp (CV 7) was sunk by a Japanese submarine on September 15, 1942. He was the ship's aerographer since June; previously he was the aerographer for Fleet Air Wing (FAW) 5 in Norfolk, Virginia.
His wife was listed as next of kin.
The "Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps" was published annually from 1815 through at least the 1970s; it provided rank, command or station, and occasionally billet until the beginning of World War II when command/station was no longer included. Scanned copies were reviewed and data entered from the mid-1840s through 1922, when more-frequent Navy Directories were available.
The Navy Directory was a publication that provided information on the command, billet, and rank of every active and retired naval officer. Single editions have been found online from January 1915 and March 1918, and then from three to six editions per year from 1923 through 1940; the final edition is from April 1941.
The entries in both series of documents are sometimes cryptic and confusing. They are often inconsistent, even within an edition, with the name of commands; this is especially true for aviation squadrons in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Alumni listed at the same command may or may not have had significant interactions; they could have shared a stateroom or workspace, stood many hours of watch together… or, especially at the larger commands, they might not have known each other at all. The information provides the opportunity to draw connections that are otherwise invisible, though, and gives a fuller view of the professional experiences of these alumni in Memorial Hall.
October 1926
Ensign, USS Oklahoma
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January 1927
Ensign, USS Oklahoma
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April 1927
Ensign, USS Oklahoma
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October 1927
Ensign, without orders
January 1928
Ensign, treatment, Naval Hospital Boston, Massachusetts
April 1928
Ensign, sick leave
July 1928
Ensign, USS Antares
October 1928
Ensign, USS Antares
January 1929
Ensign, USS Antares
April 1929
Ensign, USS Antares
July 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Antares
October 1929
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Antares
January 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
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April 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
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October 1930
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
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January 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
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April 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island
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July 1931
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
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October 1932
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
January 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
April 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Memphis
July 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Lyman Swenson '16
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Robert Smith '20
LT Paul Register '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT Howard Healy '22
1LT Charles Kail '23
LT Hallsted Hopping '24
LTjg Lawrence McPeake '24
LTjg James Smith, Jr. '25
October 1933
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Lyman Swenson '16
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Robert Smith '20
LT Paul Register '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT Howard Healy '22
1LT Charles Kail '23
LT Hallsted Hopping '24
LTjg Lawrence McPeake '24
LTjg William Graham, Jr. '25
April 1934
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Lyman Swenson '16
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Robert Smith '20
LT Paul Register '21
LT William Gray '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT Howard Healy '22
1LT Charles Kail '23
LT Hallsted Hopping '24
LT Lawrence McPeake '24
LTjg William Graham, Jr. '25
July 1934
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Albert Rooks '14
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Paul Register '21
LT William Gray '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT Howard Healy '22
LT Edward Metcalfe '22
LT Eugene Elmore '22
1LT Charles Kail '23
LTjg William Graham, Jr. '25
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October 1934
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Albert Rooks '14
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Paul Register '21
LT William Gray '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT John French '22
LT Howard Healy '22
LT Edward Metcalfe '22
LT Eugene Elmore '22
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January 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Albert Rooks '14
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Paul Register '21
LT William Gray '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT John French '22
LT Howard Healy '22
LT Edward Metcalfe '22
LT Eugene Elmore '22
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April 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), under instruction, Naval Academy
Others at this command:
LCDR Albert Rooks '14
LCDR Charles Cecil '16
LT Paul Register '21
LT William Gray '21
LT George Brooke '21
LT John French '22
LT Howard Healy '22
LT Edward Metcalfe '22
LT Eugene Elmore '22
LTjg Heywood Edwards '26
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October 1935
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
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January 1936
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
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April 1936
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
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July 1936
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
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January 1937
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
April 1937
Lieutenant (j.g.), USS Augusta
September 1937
Lieutenant, USS Augusta
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July 1938
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Naval Air Station Seattle, Washington
January 1939
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Naval Air Station Seattle, Washington
October 1939
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Naval Air Station Seattle, Washington
June 1940
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Patrol Wing 5, Norfolk, Virginia
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November 1940
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Patrol Wing 5, Norfolk, Virginia
April 1941
Lieutenant, aerological officer, Patrol Wings, Atlantic Fleet
Class of 1926
August is one of 36 members of the Class of 1926 on Virtual Memorial Hall.