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David Waples

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of David Waples  Posted on: Feb 14, 2008 - 4:10am
Welcome back home from wherever you were!

I honestly can't tell myself. In the color photo he looks much younger and not smiling. The black & white makes him look older and he's got a big smile on his face.

That's the color I'm shooting for on my boat though. I'm glad these photos came along when they did.

Dave

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  TED WALTHER

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David;
Thanks it is great to be back home!
I have a few other people looking at the photos and I am waiting for there replies. If you look closely, the man has two paint cans in front of him, I believe these have what is called "aircraft" grease in them and he is working on cleaning the .50's.
Take care
TED


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David Waples

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Hi Ted,
Great observation. I notice that the breach is open on the aft .50's on the 80' Elco so it stands to reason he's working on them. I noticed in the picture of the gent with the oversized helmet (I'm sure there's a proper name for it) that it looked like the guy in the background was painting using similar buckets. But who knows what he's really doing back there. It's funny how you see different things every time you look at these photos. Thanks for the input! If you have access to any other information we'd love to hear it.
Take care
Dave

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  TED WALTHER

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David;
In the photo of the guy with the oversized helmet; that is a helmet that wa mostly used on ships. this hemet was known as the Mark 2 andwas large enough to allow the wearer to have sound powered phones which allowed the crew to talk to each other. Most PT's did not utilize this equiptment, but some PT boats used them also, especially the later 77' ELCO gunboats such as of PT 59, 60 and 61, for use in talking to the 40mm gun crews. In the photo of JFK bringing PT 59 into Lambu Lambu cove, you can see the 40mm crew is using the S/P phone helmet.
Take care,
TED


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