USNA 14th Company

From USNA Virtual Memorial Hall


The company is the most important unit in the Brigade of Midshipmen. Companies eat, sleep, study, drill, and compete together. Comprised of roughly 30-35 midshipmen from each of all four classes, they are led by 1/c Midshipmen. There are currently 30 companies in the Brigade, though this number has ranged from 8 in the late 1920s to 36 from the late 1940s to the late 1990s.

Some classes are in the same company for all four years; there is also "shotgunning" (all midshipmen in a class, usually following plebe year, are moved randomly to a different company) and "rifling" (again usually following plebe year, an entire group would move from one company to another). Even though many alumni were a part of more than one company during their four years at the Naval Academy, the list below is reflective of the company from which they graduated.




1943 Hansen LB.jpg
Arnt Hansen
Class of 1943

LTJG, USN

Fargo, North Dakota

December 24, 1943 (23 years old)

KIA, WWII, Battle of the Atlantic, USS Leary (DD 158), Ship, USNA 14th Company


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Edmund Bevan
Class of 1943

ACAD, USA

Trenton, New Jersey

September 17, 1943 (22 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company

He is not currently listed with his classmates in Memorial Hall.

1943 Bevan LB.jpg Edmund Bevan
Class of 1943
ACAD, USA
Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company

He is not currently listed with his classmates in Memorial Hall.


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Thomas Higgins
Class of 1944

LT, USN

Boston, Massachusetts

May 24, 1949 (29 years old)

Operational loss, Naval Air Test Center, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company



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Wilmer Ilsley, Jr.
Class of 1944

ENS, USN

Tylertown, Mississippi

July 16, 1943 (21 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing Passenger, USNA 14th Company


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Louis Sugg
Class of 1944

LT, USN

Missoula, Montana

September 3, 1953 (32 years old)

Operational loss, Rhodes Scholar, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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John Lusby
Class of 1945

LTJG, USN

Casper, Wyoming

May 29, 1950 (28 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company



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Donald Hall
Class of 1945

ENS, USN

Annapolis, Maryland

May 4, 1945 (21 years old)

KIA, WWII, Kamikaze, Okinawa, Pacific, USS Morrison (DD 560), Ship, USNA 14th Company



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John Beahan
Class of 1945

ENS, USN

Michigan City, Indiana

July 10, 1945 (24 years old)

Operational loss, WWII, USS Blueback (SS 326), Submarine, USNA 14th Company



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James Snyder
Class of 1947

LTJG, USN

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

November 14, 1949 (23 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company

He is not currently listed with his classmates in Memorial Hall.

1947 Snyder LB.jpg James Snyder
Class of 1947
LTJG, USN
Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company

He is not currently listed with his classmates in Memorial Hall.

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Donald Apple
Class of 1948

LTJG, USN

Indianapolis, Indiana

April 11, 1951 (24 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 23, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Richard Ryder
Class of 1948

LTJG, USN

South Orange, New Jersey

December 18, 1950 (25 years old)

Operational loss, USS Sealion (ASSP 315), Submarine, USNA 14th Company


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Stanwix Williams
Class of 1948

LTJG, USN

Denmark, South Carolina

August 18, 1955 (29 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Jack Robbins
Class of 1948

LTCOL, USMCR

Bemidji, Minnesota

January 16, 1969 (43 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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William Keen
Class of 1948

ENS, USN

Milford, Illinois

March 17, 1950 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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George Moffett, Jr.
Class of 1949

LTJG, USN

Collingswood, New Jersey

October 24, 1952 (26 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 31, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Richard Seth
Class of 1949

LTJG, USN

Baltimore, Maryland

February 25, 1954 (27 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 141, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Houston Hayward
Class of 1950

LTJG, USN

Evanston, Illinois

January 31, 1953 (24 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 61, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company



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Donald Levisee
Class of 1951

LTJG, USN

Alhambra, California

December 16, 1953 (24 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 52, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Henry Goelzer
Class of 1951

LTJG, USN

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

October 20, 1953 (25 years old)

Operational loss, Advanced Training Unit (ATU) 101, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Thomas Bakke
Class of 1952

MAJ, USAF

Denver, Colorado

December 10, 1964 (38 years old)

Operational loss, 6550th Air Base Group, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company



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Richard Newnham
Class of 1953

LTJG, USN

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April 12, 1956 (25 years old)

Operational loss, Composite Squadron (VC) 61, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company





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William Garrity
Class of 1959

LTJG, USN

Waterbury, Connecticut

January 8, 1962 (25 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 13, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company


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Patrick Wilkes
Class of 1963

LTJG, USN

Barstow, California

November 10, 1965 (28 years old)

Operational loss, Fighter Squadron (VF) 142, Fixed Wing, USNA 14th Company




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James Jones
Class of 1968

1LT, USMC

Pontiac, Michigan

November 30, 1970 (24 years old)

KIA, Vietnam, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, Ground, USNA 14th Company