U.S.S. LST-847 - Crew Photos
(Photo courtesy of Joe Grassoni)
Officers and crew, 14 Dec 1944 launch ceremony
(Photo courtesy of Joe Grassoni)
An officer and some of the crew (undated).
Robert (Bob)
Grobbel is shown in this undated photo.
He is wearing the Amphibious Forces shoulder insignia on his left
sleeve,
indicating it was likely taken sometime before he was transferred
from the
USS LST-847 to the USS Cleburne (APA-73) on 11 April 1946.
(Photo courtesy of Joe Grassoni)
Four sailors in front of the US Naval Operating Base in Shanghai,
China.
Joe Grassoni is the third one from the left in this photo that
was
taken sometime between 20 Sept 1945 and 10 Oct 1945.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
Walter Kolak, MoMM1c, is shown switching over the electric
generators in the auxillary engine room.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni; names from the album of Robert Greenwood)
Byron C. Benton, PhM2c (left) and Percy J. Spellings, PhM3c at
their work station in the pharmacy.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni; names from the album of Robert Greenwood)
Crewmembers take a break (left to right): Walter Kolak, Thomas E. Brown, Jr., Henry W.
Brown, Nicholas Stanovich, Charles H. Mobley, Robert E. Greenwood.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
Diving and swimming off of the ramp.
(Photo courtesy of
the LST
Home Port web site)
Unidentified LST-847
crewmembers and location.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni; name from the album of Robert Greenwood)
Lawrence J. Hoffman, F2c mugs for the camera.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
R & R in Honolulu, Hawaii, Diamond Head in the background.
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
James Arentz, BM2c
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
Unidentified crewmember dressed as Santa Claus, taken on 25 Dec
1945, off the coast of China
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Grassoni)
Unidentified crewmembers delivering a tonsorial message: "V-I-C-T-O-R-Y"
(Photo courtesy of
Joe Huser; caption information courtesy of Clem Klimek)
Clem Klimek, S2c, on board the LST-847 while it was in Panama on
their way to the Pacific.
Clem explains that the crew was told to cut their hair short for
hygiene purposes while they were in the tropics, so he
decided to have his head shaved bald. With his new "haircut"
and his wire-rimmed glasses, everyone was kidding him that he
looked like Mahatma Gandhi, so that is why he "dressed"
and posed like this for the photo.
(Photo and
identifications courtesy of Joe Huser)
Engineers ("Black Gang") of the LST-847 after the
Captain's Inspection, 28 April 1945, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1 Ray Louis Pape, __; 2 George R. Conger, Jr., MoM3/c; 3 Edwin B. Kleinhenz, F2c; 4 Chester Maxim, MoM3c ; 5 Henry W. Brown, CMoM; 6 Clifford King, F2c; 7 Robert F. Williams, MoM2c; 8 Clyde A. Aspleaf, F1c; 9 James F. Hewson, F1c MoM; 10 Clement G. Klimek, S2c; 11 Donald M. Glime, F1c WT; 12 John LeCouras, __: 13 Frederick W. Kendall, MoMM2c; 14 Lawrence J. Hoffman, F2c; 15 Fred Tenny, Jr., F1c; 16 Austin F. Kirchoff, F1c MoM; 17 Cecil C. Callahan, F1c MoM; 18 Nicholas Stanovich, MoMM1c; 19 Thomas O. Cole, F1c MoM; 20 __ Knobe, __; 21 Francis A. "Frenchy" La Plante, F1c; 22 Kenneth R. Miller, F2c; 23 Lt. Harold F. Spilner, Engineering Officer; 24 Richard T. Courtney, F1c EM; 25 Albert D. Headley, F1c; 26 Joseph Huser, __; 27 Robert L. Levis, WT2c; 28 Walter Kolak, MoMM1c.
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