Category: Shipmate’s Stories

LLOYD A. VOORHEES, JR. reported aboard about the time I did, August 15, 1950, to the Ship Reactivation Group, San Diego, with our initial group to begin a “Priority AA (Hurry, Hurry!!)” reactivating our...

LTJG EMMETT H. TIDD 16 August 1950 Emmett Hulcy Tidd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on 6 October 1923, son of Colonel Luzerne M. Tidd, U. S. Army, Retired and Mrs. (Vallie B. Williamson)...

RD2 LESLIE S. THOMAS 19 February 1954 Leslie S. Thomas was born 10 April 1934, at Montezuma, Kansas. He had four sisters and one step-brother. “Tom” to some, “Les” to others, and “slush-fund man”...

BT1 GLENN A. TERRELL 20 September 1950 BT1 Glenn A. Terrel served aboard USS FRANK E. EVANS (DD 754) in the forward engine room. He died 15 January 2003. His last residence was 501...

RD2 CHARLES FRANKLIN SWENGEL 7 January 1955 I Charles Franklin Swengel was born 24 June 1936, in Nebraska. My eyes are brown and so was my hair. In 1953, my senior year of high...

GEORGE S. TATGE GMM3, 15 September 1950-1951 I was born 30 October 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, and had brown hair and blue eyes. On 2 February 1946, I enlisted in the U. S. Navy...

LT RICHARD “DICK” SPEAR 5 June 1952 – 2 September 1953

BMSN WILLIAM V. SIENER 2 July 1952 I am William V. Siener Jr. Some called me, “Wild Bill.” I was born at home 4 February 1934, at Leavenworth, Kansas. My hair was blonde and...

BTFN ALEX L. SANCHEZ 1 September 1950-54 I enjoyed the article by James Brady (“Korea”.) However, I take exception to his statement that “our battleships and cruisers shelled enemy ridge lines; and our sailors...

CDR NELSON DENMAN SALMON – 12 March 1952 – 17 February 1954 CDR Nelson D. Salmon acquired the nickname “Sockeye” because of his surname, but was known to his fellow senior officers as “Sock.”...