Submitted by Jerry Bliss.  EDITED 05FEB02 From D. Scott Hendricks 57-59. QM GANG. "The land in the background is an island called ChiChi Jima,where we stopped to replenish the beer supply for a group of U.S. servicemen. The Chief on deck, in the shot,was a Gunners Mate. Can't think of his name. He was in charge of the deck gang. At the time we still had a billet for a gunners mate." If anyone can ID personnel please let Jack Hester know at snook592@erols.com

Addtional info, 13FEB02.......from Jerry Bliss.....Question... who was Gunners Mate on ROCK.... he was not
a chief, but was 2nd class LUDWIG. I worked on his deck gang.  Hendrix is right.... that is Chi Chi Jima (shima) island. I was there, too. Had top-side watch that night.... darkest place in the world, no moon, etc... I nearly walked over the side.

And from Jack Hester.......Aha....CHI CHI SHIMA....they had a spook (CT's) station there and they
monitored all of our CW transmission in an attempt to pick up certain characteristics in our sending that could eventually
identify the boat. Many is the time I would be trying to reach some shore station to take my traffic and even though they wouldn't take my traffic they did send a letter to the command saying that so and so at time such and such was detected with
the following characteristic etc etc....
 

Front Row  (Left to Right)  Lim YN1(SS)  Williams SD3(SS)  Roberto TN(SS)  Baker MMFN   (*)  LaCoss SOG2(SS)  Fleming RMSN(SS)  Kalima EN3(SS)  Morse FN(SS)  Dollar SN(SS)	Second Row  (Left to Right)  Kidder SOS3(SS)  Trejo EM1(SS)  Rudy EMFN(SS)  Salamida TN(SS)  Grace IC3(SS)  Kring YN2(SS)  Gauthier EM3(SS)  Winn TM3(SS)  Degusman IC2(SS)  Petralba QM1(SS)  Whyte SN(SS)	Third Row  (Left to Right)  LCDR Zekan (CO)  Daniel ETR2(SS)  Snyder RM2(SS)  Carter RMSN(SS)  Donakowski ETRSN(SS) Bobish MMFN(SS)  Donaldson ETRSN(SS)  McKee MM3(SS)  Fowlks TM2(SS)  Kincaid EM3(SS)  Whipple EN1(SS)  Molin CS3(SS)  Fields RM1(SS)  Scheu FTG3(SS)  LT Master (XO)
Fourth Row  (Left to Right)  LTJG Bigelow  Durham EN3(SS)  Sofar EN1(SS)  Jordan EM1(SS)  Vaughn EN2(SS)  Naberhaus EN3(SS)  Roe MMFN(SS)  Oates EN1(SS)  Bowe SM1(SS)  Richardson EM3(SS)  Walewski TM2(SS)	Fifth Row  (Left to Right)  Walbaum EN2(SS)  McCoy SN(SS)  Figgins SN(SS)  Wardell RM1(SS)  Sons IC2(SS)  Rosenboom EN3(SS)  Kline SN(SS)  Freeman SN(SS)  Nelson SN(SS)  Lemaer EN3(SS)  Mahnke SN(SS)  Cummings EN2(SS)	Sixth Row  (Left to Right)  ENS Kenny  ENS Stevens  ENS Massanari  Hayes QMC(SS)  Eaton TMC(SS)  Stoner RMC(SS)  Clark ENC(SS)  Read EMC(SS)  Hoffman HMC(SS)  LT Honadle  LTJG Griffin

(*)Please note that all enlisted men are qualified in submarines with the exception of
MMFN Baker

Photo and Crews List submitted by  Bob Daniels via Don Snyder

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Gary Carr, Don Snyder, Bill Oakes in Club 181 in San
Francisco.
Courtesy Don Snyder.

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ET1(SS) Bob Daniels, Don't Remember, TM1(SS) Fields, EMC(SS) Hank Hammock,
EM1(SS) Jennings.

Submitted by Bob Daniels via Don Snyder.

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ET1(SS) Daniels, TM1(SS) Fields, EMC(SS) Hammock, EM1(SS) Jordon,
ENC(SS) Philpot

Submitted by Bob Daniels via Don Snyder.

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Per an E-mail from Jack................."For all you guys that were on the Rock when we went north
to Alaska ...the attached is a certified copy of John Schmidt's visit to the "Red Dog Saloon" in
Juneau. I think the timeframe was either 59 or 60.......CRS setting in.....As
you look at the names of some of the witnesses it may bring back some memories........"

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D. Scott Hendricks 

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Jim Mazza (QM3) in crews mess.

Per Scott...."The Officer on the bridge was called "Bear" ,  he was a wrestling champ when he was at Annapolis. The Captain at that time was LCDR Leif Tollefson. (wanted to be called "sweed", on the boat)" Anyone remember what the Lt.'s name was???????  13FEB 02 edit. According to Jerry Bliss, One of the comments Scott had on one of the pictures on

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