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[StartQuote] For some reason I think these pictures were taken while my dad was on the 361 in 1944 and 1945. I can't find any similar pictures in his photo collection, but I know that I've previously seen the man with the pipe leaning on the rail of the Varuna. The large format of the pictures and the generally good quality suggest that they were taken by a Navy photographer. Pictures that the sailors took, including Dad, were developed and printed in the cabin of the PT boat and were limited to smaller formats that could be contact printed. The sailor in white skivvies wearing a fatigue cap and holding a tag line to the torpedo looks very much like Harley Black. In Dad's photo album he lists him as both a Gunners Mate and a Coxswain. Could he be both? According to the notes in Dad's photo album the picture below (hopefully) shows Black sitting and looking at the camera along with Ralp Cockrell. The man standing facing the camera looks very much like Vic Kodis, whom Frank knew very well post war, which means Cockrell is the man looking away from the camera. Cockrell was later wounded at Fort Drum/El Fraile Island. The 361 is passing the USS Wisconsin in San Pedro Bay.
A second photograph of the Wisconsin. There must have been something official going on as pictures with the crew in uniform are quite rare.
I thought I had a definite connection with the man sitting in front of the cabin reading a book, but Dad's picture turned out to be Larry Graham, Exec of PT 357. The pose is amazingly similar.
Finally, in the first picture that Frank posted, is a sailor using the stern mounted latrine on the boat behind the 361? Randy McConnell (Randall J. McConnell III)[EndQuote]
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