Album Index for Album 0028: Diodon WestPac 1954

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349-0 On liberty.  Where are they?  What bar are they in? The one in Dress Blues is Fritz Stroble.
ID's by  Paul Schultz: 

Center is Red? EM3(SS), on the right in blues is CS1(SS) Fritz "Ma" Stroble who is on eternal patrol. 
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349-1 Close up shot of crew playing cards in Crew's Mess in the After Battery Compartment. One with cig. is Curtis. In the right corner is Chief Engineman Jug or Jughead.  
ID's by  Paul Schultz: 

* TM1(SS) Norfleet looking at his cards. 

* TM1(SS) Vern Speed at left upper,  

* RM2(SS) Jack Freepartner, middle left.  

Norfleet had the ATR, and Speed  had the FTR.  

I had the deck force topside.  

Vern Speed is retired in NV. 
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349-2 Wide view of the crew assembled in the Crew's Mess in the After Battery Compartment.  Card games in process.  Any names for these sailors? Up front is Paul M. Schultz, under the girl picture is Vern Speed. Both went up ranks to LDO.

ID's by  Paul Schultz: 

The man on the left from Speed is: RM2(SS) Jack Freepartner. Jack went on eternal patrol about 7-8 years ago. 



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349-3 Three crew men on the beach, somewhere, but where?  Looks like an island some place.  (ID help was by  Paul Schultz):   

* EN1(SS) Huff,  

* RM1(SS) Shipwreck Kelly,  

* EN3(SS) Kunkel on the right. 
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349-4 Two crew men on liberty, but where?  EM2(SS) Wilson is on the left.  Rocky is on the right.
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349-5 Willie Williams is standing with Fritz Strobel sitting down on the bow deck, just forward of the Forward Torpedo Room deck hatch and the sonar dome, to the left of it.  Thanks to George Williams for the identity of these two sailors?
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349-6 In the Maneuvering Room, starboard side station with control levers showing and the meters on the board above it visible.  Who are these sailors?
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349-7 In the Control Room, at the Chart Table.  Who are these two?  Note the ladder coming down from above.  This is the ladder the lookouts and OOD come barreling down when the boat is diving.  The lookouts go to the bow and stern planes and the OOD becomes the Diving Officer.
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349-8 This is Willie Williams, one of the cooks in the galley.  Thanks to George Williams for the identity.
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349-10 ID's and memories by  Paul Schulz:
Left to Right: 
* HMC(SS) "Doc" Cespiva, 
* QM1(SS) Adkins, 
* TMSN(SS) Zeiller.  

** Doc Cespiva, as you face the photo is on your left. He has a ball cap on and is in a civilian shirt.  

** QM1(SS) Adkins is in the center with a civilian shirt on.

** TM3(SS) Zeiller is to the right with dungarees on and has his left hand in his shirt pocket going for a cigarette.

***I could never forget ole Doc Cespiva. They dropped a torpedo loading skid on my hand and fortunately, it only smashed my middle finger, right hand. Needless to say, it produced a blood blister under my fingernail. I went back to the after battery to find the Doc and what does he do?
Straightens out a paperclip, heats it with his Zippo lighter and burns a hole in my nail to vent off the blood, felt good relieving the pressure but sure smelt bad burning nail and flesh!!     
Paul
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349-11 Who is this shipmate?
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349-12 Who is this shipmate?
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349-13 Who is this shipmate?
The Diodon is tied up along side AS 12 tender in San Diego.

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349-14 Rocky is on the Left.  Shipmate on the right is ?
The Diodon is tied up along side AS 12 tender in San Diego.
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349-15 EM2(SS)Wilson in the Maneuvering Room on watch.
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349-18 When Diodon was in Sasbo, Japan tied up at the Army pier.   We were the first sub in Sasbo since the war ended.  Had a ball!!!