Category: Shipmate’s Stories

Voorhees, Lloyd

Voorhees, Lloyd

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...

Thomas, Leslie

Thomas, Leslie

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”...

Sanchez, Alex

Sanchez, Alex

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...

Salmon, Denman

Salmon, Denman

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.”...