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| Size | Caption |
| 146682 | The front of the Welcome Aboard Diodon booklet. Provided by Jerry Conklin. |
| 127718 | The inside front of the Welcome Aboard Diodon booklet. Provided by Jerry Conklin. |
| 75494 | The inside back of the Welcome Aboard Diodon booklet. Provided by Jerry Conklin. |
| 102854 | The back of the Welcome Aboard Diodon booklet. Provided by Jerry Conklin. |
| 66403 | A very nice photo from 1959 of Diodon. Provided by Jerry Conklin. |
| 77716 | This is Milton L. Lauric CS-1 and I think this was after he made Chief. As you can see we were cooking steaks on the grill topside...... Greenboard and DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 100492 | We have sent some stories of Melvin J. Percy TM-1(SS) and Robert C. Fischer TM-2(SS) so here are their pictures. Melvin Percy was the ship's barber, here he is cutting Robert's hair. You can see the after tubes pretty well also......... Green Board & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 78975 | You know how close quarters are in a sub, well Earnest C. Wareham EN-1(SS) didn't have a place to hide. Ernie was in charge of the after engine room when I went aboard, he and I stood watch together until I made EN-3.... Ernie taught me a lot about the Diodon and about the engines and } every thing else in the engine room. We got sea sick together, he would set on the tool box by the ladder going topside and hold his head, just feeling miserable. I would really get sick and loose everything, but we kept everything going somehow...... Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 49749 | This is Charles E. Cooper FN (SS), this is looking forward in the after engine room. Notice he has on glasses, he didn't wear glasses, I think these were mine. Charles had a pair of black plastic frames with no lenses that he wore for most of the 1958-59 WestPac tour. This was taken in 1959...... Jim Barnes |
| 74147 | We were going into port someplace and the line handlers are on deck, the guy on the left has the heaving line in his hands. Maybe some one remembers names to go with this from 1959...... Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 89553 | This picture was taken in Okinawa, I think, we had a leak and got salt water in one of the generators. They brought a tanker alongside and flushed the generator for a few hours...... GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 79775 | 1958-1959: Engine Room Crew ..... This is some of the engine room crew, Richard C. Miller EN-3(SS) in dress blues. He worked in the forward engine room. Someone will have to help out on the next guy standing, the one standing on the right is Arlie B. Collins EN-2(SS) I think. He worked in the after engine room........ Hi Jim, Just received an e-mail from B. J. Strand, he gave me the names of all the guys in the picture of the engine room gang in the 59 album. Standing on left in dress blues is Richard C. Miller EN-3(SS), George Rogers, Carl F. Goodlett EN-1(SS) kneeling and Charles B. Matlock EN-1(SS).... Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 91714 | Charles E. Quimby EM-3(SS), A.L. Mclane EM-2(SS) and James W. Barnes EN-3(SS) left Diodon early one morning for a trip to Tokyo, Japan...... We were in Yokosuka, Japan at the time. We stopped in a town I won't even try to spell, to see the Great Buddha...... We spent some time there taking pictures and looking around the grounds. It was like a park that was landscaped nice and very clean. I think we rode a train part of the way and I remember riding in a "pedicar", sort of like a rickshaw on a bicycle. It had three wheels the passengers rode in a covered are at the back and the driver was riding the bicycle part of it. Some of them had a small gasoline engine attached to the front wheel so the driver didn't have to peddle all time........ All I remember about Tokyo is we were hungry so we went into this restaurant, sat in a booth and waited for the waitress. She could speak no English and we could speak no Japanese. After a while we had all the employees gathered around trying to figure out what we wanted. Finally someone said Coke and we all agreed that is what we wanted to drink. The food was a different story, one of the cooks finally said "ham" and we all jumped at that, at least we had something we knew what was. They brought us ham sandwiches loaded with horseradish and cut like finger sandwiches. We were grateful for anything but the horseradish was a lot hotter than we wanted. We had a good time and an experience we will never forget. In this picture Quimby is on the left, McLane in the center and Barnes on the right......... Greenboard & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 79070 | A.L. McLane and "The Great Buddha". Buddha is made of bronze and has about four steps going up the back. The back is hollow.... Greenboard & DBF Jim Barnes |
| 135337 | This picture was taken in Hong Kong. I guess this was in early '59. This boat came each day to pick up garbage. One of the women had a little boy about 5-7 years old. I had bought a model cabin cruiser boat in Japan and put it together on the way to Hong Kong. I had had my fun so when I saw this kid I put the boat in the top of the engine room trash can. When they empted the can the boy grabbed the boat and was hanging over the side sailing his little boat in Hong Kong harbor. GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 74667 | This is looking forward from the bridge. We were in some pretty good swells. This one broke over the bubble and we all ducked under except the duty officer. He got wet and sent me below so there would be room for him to get under the bubble and not get wet..... Jim Barnes |
| 58611 | I think this is Roger Stern standing lookout while at sea..... So ...... here it is..... GB& DBF, Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 62682 | This is Dean Augustine Vargas FN from 1959....... GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 39237 | Dale V. Barrios on the Bridge. Provided by James Barnes. |
| 66276 | Escape Training Tank, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii ...... I know you have seen this but just in case, it is the escape training tank in Pearl Harbor. This was taken on the day we were leaving for San Diego in 1959. GB & DBF Jim Barnes |
| 87151 | I think this is the last of my pictures...Picture is not of the Diodon but thought you might like it, it was taken from Diodon on the day we were leaving Pearl Harbor to return to San Diego after the WestPac tour in 1959. These are ocean going tugs airing their flags and there was a beautiful rainbow that morning. Greenboard and DBF Jim Barnes |
| 31947 | San Diego, Nereus (AS-17) with Diodon & other subs ..... I think this was taken from the water taxi on the way to "the beach". Diodon is one of the boats but I don't remember which. The tender is the Nereus AS-17.... Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 62347 | This is John A. Noonan FN from Puyallup, Wa. John and I stood watch together in the after engine room after I made EN-3..... GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 46907 | This is William F. Catron, EN-2(SS) on the day he left the Diodon for discharge. You would have to know Catron, he was the guy that told us "don't ride a rickshaw in Hong Kong, and the first guy I saw on the beach was Catron in a rickshaw..... [Back home] He had his wife in Balboa Naval Hospital to give birth to one of their children. He told the doctor to sew her up so the wider she spread her legs the tighter it would get. The doctor threw him out of the hospital...... GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 93463 | San Francisco, Hunter's Point Overhaul .... One of the ward room cooks caught this shark off the back of the barge we were living on while in dry dock at Hunters Point. This was in September of 1959. Thanks, Jim Barnes |
| 124783 | This picture is of the Diodon in dry-dock [at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, September, 1959].... GB & DBF Jim Barnes |
| 110033 | This is Diodon in dry dock at Hunters Point in September, 1959..... GB & DBF... Jim Barnes |
| 106733 | This is Diodon in dry dock at Hunters Point in September, 1959. Don't remember who the topside watch is, will need some help here...... GB & DBF, Jim Barnes |
| 27607 | Dolphin Award Day in Sept 1959, at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard. CO is Clyde Wahl. Don't remember Squadron 5 Commodore - might have been George Street. Provided by Paul Kimball. |
| 24752 | It's Jim Brannigan, Paul Kimball (Red Dog), Guy Grafius at bingo }in the ward room. Provided by Paul Kimball. |
| 110068 | 4000th dive - taken from the "Periscope" - the San Diego submarine rag. Provided by Paul Kimball. |
| 56172 | Red Dog, on the 4,000th dive. I think I got to do the hydraulic manifold 'cuz I was longest server aboard. Provided by Paul Kimball. |