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Here are various collected photos of the crew
When you see an 'unknown', it would be appreciated
if you could identify it for me.

(8 August 2006) ... I would like to start off with the photo below of John Bible taken in 1943.
John was born in 1925. Joined the Navy at age 17, and went aboard the ship in 1942, before it was named Mulberry. At that time it was still designated as YN-22.
By May 1943, it had been removed from "In Service" status and redisignated as USS Mulberry AN-27).
Ships Logs say:
29 May 1943, Underway from Guantanamo Bay.
31 May 1943, ArrivedBarahonas, Republic Dominico.
Of course, you can see he was a young good-looking sailor. I believe he is the only sailor still living who served on the ship when it was still in the YN-22 classification.

The three photos below are of BMC Herbert Marrs. The first two were taken while he served on the Mulberry. My records show he was onboard from July 1949 to January 1951. He enlisted in Navy in 1933 - retired in 1954, (21 years of honorable service). A small period of the time spent on the Mulberry was when Mulberry was assigned to the California Academy of Sciences to probe out the secrets hidden in the ocean deep which lies just 35 miles out of the Golden Gate and six miles west of the Farallone Islands. Captain J. B. Birtch was the skipper during that time and Captian Birtch mentioned Chief Marrs several times in phone conversations with me. The 3rd photo is Chief Marrs aboard USS Comstock (LSD-19) (a much better photo).