U.S.S. Chiwawa photos

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Crew Group Photos: On Land

NEWEST!!!L-R Ed Guyer, Louis Ragan, Jim Strupp, Warren Ray. The women are unidetified. September 1944 at Times Square, New York

Arthur Krieg, left, Bill Hall in Naples, Italy. Aug. 27, 1944. Photo courtesy Bill Hall.

Conrad Dion (died April 16, 1999), left, Bill Hall. Photo courtesy Bill Hall.

Bill Hall, middle, and two unidentified sailors. May 3, 1944. Photo courtesy Bill Hall.

From left to right: Borey, Bill Hall, Pretty Boy, Chicken. Taken at Coney Island. Photo courtesy Bill Hall.

From left to right: L-R Mac Cabral, Joseph "Red Ragozine, Don Mauer . Photo courtesy Frances Dugan.

Chiwawa crew in San Francisco bar. L-R Herman Boyette, Arthur Krieg, William Delfert, Robert Lambert, Vincent McMail, Jerome Wadzinski, Richard Catlin, William Jolle. Photo courtesy Arthur Krieg.

Chiwawa basketball team. #20 is Conrad "Whitey" Dion, holding the ball is Harlan "Moody" Murry. #16 is Jim Decker, #22 is Charles Blount Jr., Radar Man. #17 is Frank Dugan. The officer is Ensign Phillips and the fellow next to him is Dick Catlin. Arthur Krieg is #9. Photo courtesy Arthur Krieg.

Possibly naval training class, Norfolk, Va. From Louis I. Ragan's collection.

Lois I. Ragan at right, other two unidentified. From Louis I. Ragan's collection.

From left to right: James "Jo" Strupp, William Davis, Frank Dugan in Casablanca. Photo courtesy James "Jo" Strupp

Ed Guyer, left, James "Jo" Strupp, right. Photo courtesy James "Jo" Strupp.

Casablanca port, Nov. 13, 1943. From left to right, Ralph Wiley Delaney Jr., Charles William Gartland, Bruner Lange, and unknown soldier from North Africa. Photo courtesy Bruner Lange.

Back row, left to right: Joe Charbonneau, L. Cheno (Creno?), Don Demers. Front row: African boy w/monkey, Doc Sansawiki. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

1943 Casablanca. From left to right: Red, Tommy, Joe, Don Demers. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

Donald Demers, left, and other sailors in Casablanca, 1943. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

Unidentified sailors, possibly Casablanca. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

Donald Demers, left, other sailors unidentified. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

Donald Demers, left, other sailors unidentified. Photo courtesy Donald Demers.

Raymond Henry Grunwald, left, and man on right is possibly Dominic Zappia. Photo courtesy Bruner Lange.

Richard "Dick" William Wirt, left, and Calvin Carr, second from right. From Calvin Carr's collection.

Richard "Dick" William Wirt, second from right, and Calvin Carr, right. From Calvin Carr's collection.

Unidentified crew members, possibly in Italy. From Calvin Carr's collection.

Richard "Dick" William Wirt, left, and Calvin Carr, middle. Casablanca boy in front. From Calvin Carr's collection.


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