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Bill Minor's History:
WWII Era
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Once I was a Navy Man

Duty Station:  WWII MM2c on the Potter

Epilogue

Quarters for Muster:
where we are now

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Photo Gallery 9

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William/Bill Edward Holland

William/Bill Edward Holland

Richard Sheridan

Recommissioning detail of officers on the dock

Says a Thousand Words

VanDeusen, BM1 &
Osterhort, BM1
aboard the Potter

Ryder, BM2
Eze, France in background

Ray Allen Lantz
Radar Operator - 2DM 2nd Class

Larry Paxson BMSN
Suda Bay, Crete
March 1952
Coxswain Captain's Gig

High Line Transfer
 

Hi Line Transfer
 

USS Stephen Potter Arriving

Londonderry, N. Ireland
 

Stavanger, Norway
 

Stavanger Saturday Market

Enroute to Gibralter






 

 


At sea going to Manus.  Roger Sindelir (radioman) copying Morse code, and in the back, Ed Vallette (radioman) setting up transmitters and receivers for entering port

1997 aboard the Destroyer USS Kidd, Ed Vallette in the same pose (40 years later)




 

"Deep Six"
left to right: the cook, (name unknown),
Ed Vallette (radioman), James Whitmore, (played the captain), Harold Moreland (Bo'sun)

Ed Vallette (radioman) on the signal light





 

On liberty in Waikiki
left to right:
Peters (signalman),
Justice (quartermaster),
Vallette (radioman),
Capensa (signalman)

 

Front row: Tim Lane and Ron Detert
Back row: Joe Hogan (SO), Neugebauer (ET), Leathers (RD), Murphy (RD), unknown, and Bob Dana
   
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