1953 CREW PHOTOS -- PAGE ONE
 
Joseph "Ding Dong" Bell, TMC(SS), Chief of the Boat
 
Marty Perez, RMSN
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Images Above are Courtesy of Marty Perez, RM3(SS), Menhaden, 1953-54)
 
After all of these years, he is unable to identify all of the crewmembers pictured. Can anyone help?
 
Joseph Bell (center, foreground), Marty Perez (standing next to Bell), and the fourth sailor from the right-hand side of the photo is Jack Ferguson.
 
(Image Courtesy of Jack Ferguson, RM2(SS), Menhaden, 1953-55)
 
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arriving aboard the USS Menhaden for the Recommissioning Ceremony on March 6th, 1953. It is noteworthy that Frank "Loopy" Lehr, TM1(SS) (standing behind the "side-boys" on the left of the brow), in the mid-1960's became Menhaden's Chief of the Boat.
 
(Photo Courtesy of Bernie Sigler, RM2(SS), Menhaden, 1953-56)
 
Jim Carpenter, TM2(SS), and Dave Pacha working on a torpedo in the FTR.
 
Jim Carpenter, Dave Pacha, "Uncle Bert" Snider and Joseph "Ding Dong" Bell.
 
(Images Above are Courtesy of James R. Carpenter, TM2(SS), Menhaden, 1953-54)