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Company 279, San Diego NTC, squad leaders. June 1967 |
Engineman "A" School, Great Lakes NTC. Dec. 1967 |
Left to right; me, Hires, David Johnson. Must have been early in the evening. We still are well groomed and have clear eyes. Feb. 3, 1968. Olongapo, Philippines. Hires and Johnson were in my Engineman A-School class at Great Lakes NTC. | |
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Ship's brochure |
Engineers having fun with a weather balloon. |
Bruce Crabtree with main engine room mascot. |
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Bruce Crabtree at main engine control station. |
LST loading ramp in Danang. |
Offloading onto causeway, I think it's China Beach. If I remember correctly those off-duty got about 2 hours on the beach with an allocation of 2 beers each. It was great but unfortunately Dana Delany wasn't there that day. :( |
Offloading oil drums in Danang. |
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My favorite band, Blue Science at D'Wave in Olongapo. These guys could play ANYTHING just like the original band, outstanding! |
Jake Eckert. Jake seemed to live in a small structure on the fantail, I have no idea what he did on the ship, I don't think anyone did! |
Me taking main engine quarterly readings. Great haircut, huh? |
On the left; Dave Johnson, on the right Decker. Others unknown except for Crabtree. |
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Dennis Weishaar and Paul Heroux in the machine shop/entertainment center. |
John Gannon, good man. John went on to become Deputy Director of the CIA. I heard from him recently. Thanks John. |
John Gannon again. John extended his service into the reserves and reached the rank of Captain, congratulations John. Click here to see John's biography from his alma mater. |
Parant and Heroux rebuilding generator. |
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| Heroux in the Philippines. | Fort at Grande Island | Refueling a mine sweeper |
Engineers quarters, Heroux in foreground. |
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The shot to the left was made on Grande Island in Subic Bay. The person is Bob Busse. |
| Temporary refrigerators on deck to transport frozen food on the Mekong. | Troop ship supports small boat fleets. | ||
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Me, Christmas day in Guam. 1969 |
Swaffer and Hanson, resident hippies. |
Skippers' brother-in-law landing his helo on deck. |
Main engines |
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John Gannon's article that appeared in the Navy publication The Amphibian. |
Heroux and Parant rebuilding generator. I forget who Heroux is yelling at but I remember he was not very happy. |
Heroux in electricians office. |
Leo Mularkey. Leo had been working on cleaning the boiler, it shows. |
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Leo again. In Hong Kong Leo had a tattoo placed on his hand while he was drunk. When we looked at it we noticed it was misspelled and read "born to loose". |
Delivering supplies on the Mekong river. |
At sea, probably headed to Guam or the Philippines. |
Mekong River. In the foreground is a "Monitor". A menacing floating gun platform. Not much speed but lots of firepower. |
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Me on deck on the Mekong Delta. We had dozens of walk-in freezers on deck. We delivered provisions to ships working the river. |
Ships' party in Guam. The guy "skying" is the skipper, John Dobrosky. When he left the ship he was replaced by; Glenn Q. Lane. Yes, G.Q. And we did have lots of practice drills under his command. Pretty good skipper aside from his insistence to pull into port without the assistance of tug boats. It was always an adventure landing with him at the controls. It became a sport to go on deck and see what kind of damage he would do when pulling into port. Once, when laying alongside another LST, we did pretty substantial damage to both ships. Sorry, no pics of GQ. other than the ones of him in the water on the next page. Lt. Dobrosky found this site and contacted me recently. He retired from the Naval Reserves with the rank of Commander and now is apparently retired and living in Hawaii. |
Swift boat near the Mekong. 58 days on station providing fuel and water to patrol boats. Out of sight of land the whole time, ran out of fresh food after one week. Boring! |
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Tres Amigos! Bob Busse, Dennis Weishaar, Alan Sandoval in the Philippines. Looks like this one was made a little later in the evening! |
Dennis Weishaar, Mekong Delta. |
Dennis Weishaar in engineers quarters. No, we didn't have a phone in the quarters. It was obtained in some nefarious way and didn't work. |
Park County Zippo |
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Hong Kong Dollar |
Philippine Peso |
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