Notable Seamen
- Bruce Meyers served aboard Bunker Hill during the second world war. He survived the May 1945 kamikaze attack, and would go on to create the original fiberglass dune buggy, the Meyers Manx.
- Paul Newman as a radioman-gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber, served aboard the USS Bunker Hill during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945.
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