Eugene Earle Amick

Eugene Earle Amick (January 26, 1919 – August 9, 1942) was born at Boonville, Missouri. He studied at the University of Kansas City and Rockhurst College before entering William Jewell College in 1937. After graduating from the latter in 1941, Amick enlisted in the Naval Reserve on September 19, 1941. Following preliminary training, he was appointed a midshipman on February 13, 1942 and entered the United States Naval Reserve Midshipman's School at Northwestern University. Upon his successful completion of the officers' candidate course there, he was commissioned ensign on May 14, 1942 and assigned to USS "Astoria" (CA-34).

Amick served in that cruiser during the early summer of 1942 as she prepared to participate in the first Allied thrust in the Pacific, the invasion of the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal. He was killed on the second night after the original landings as Allied warships attempted to protect American beachheads in the Battle of Savo Island in the small hours of August 9.