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Topic: SC-517 RADAR PHOTOGRAPHS |
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Nathaniel Smith
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Posted on: Feb 23, 2010 - 5:05pm
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1. I plan to visit the National Archives on April 22-23 and I hope to scan the original of the White Plains photo. There is also a companion photo showing two other boats in front of the forecastle (with a small tugboat). I will gladly share the higher resolution shots I get then. Bulkley posts the National Archives number it his book (80-G-184393).
2. The best image of the White Plains I have I scanned from the Bulkley book directly (see below).
3. It might show PT-154 on the port side (see below) even though I have on very good authority that PT-154 was on the starboard side (far side of the photograph). Pat's memory is better than mine and he is 27 years older. Look on the base of the 20mm gun astern of the port boat (or the right-hand boat in the photograph below) and you can maybe make out the numbers 154.
4. My father remembers traveling with Hank (and Robert Kelly joined him much later). It took two oilers to get Ron 9 to Panama and two to get them to Noumea. My Dad's boat used the White Plains and later the Pecos. He is very proud that they went under their own power from Noumea to Tulagi, which they did in 7 days (16-23 April 1943).
5. I have very little information about Lever Harbor even though Ron 9 spent a lot of time there (July 26 1943 to 25 October 1943 with time also mixed in at the Russell Islands and Tulagi). I appreciate any photograph from Lever Harbor. Pat doesn't remember this time and my Dad doesn't either. The shot of PT-155 at Lever Harbor is great.
This is the forward image.
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