The correct designation of the ship in which William Ashmont served was SS WALTER JENNINGS, not "USS" WALTER JENNINGS. USS means United States Ship and denotes a commissioned warship in the U.S. Navy. SS WALTER JENNINGS was never a commissioned warship but rather was a civilian-crewed merchant ship. SS means steamship.
In a search of Ancestry.com, I found two records for William Leon Ashmont, a member of the Armed Guard crew aboard SS WALTER JENNINGS, arriving in New York City after foreign voyages. One arrival was on April 19, 1943, from Swansea, England, the second was on July 23, 1943, from Bizerte, Tunisia. The names of his Armed Guard shipmates were as follows:
Bowen, Ray H
Cassady, Wesley J
De Stephano, Anthony
Ducharme, Joseph L
Haley, Paul
Henner, Walter George, Jr.
Kapturauskas, Walter A
Lawson, Howard
Lincoln, Glen Dale Jack
Loveless, Granville R
McCort, Lawrence William
McKenna, John E
McMurry, James Turner
Mikac, Adolph
Moore, Robert
Moresco, Samuel Joseph
Neville, William F Ensign, Armed Guard commanding office
Powell, Frank L
Priddy, James C, Jr.
Provost, Robert James
Reed, Jack Stacy
Richards, Albert England
Rondeau, Robert A
Royal, Robert L
Ruiz, Pablo M
Schnell, Ralph Frank
Walters, Raleigh
Williams, Bob Claude
Wilson, Thomas Donovan
Winget, Kenneth Guitner
Yankosky, Joseph James
Unfortunately I do not know whether any of these men are still living, nor do I have contact information for any who may be alive.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster
Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website
www.armed-guard.com
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