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George Lesko BM3 taking a group from Lipan, which is anchored out in background, to the beach where we
were assisting in the filming of the movie South Pacific. Oct. 1957. |
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Lipan all dressed up, Dress Ship, April 1959 Adak Alaska. |
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Lipan Adak Alaska April 1959. |
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Adak Alaska April 1959 Lipan Bringing aboard a local
Aleut Indian that fell on the ice and was injured, wrapped in canvass to keep from getting wet. The locals brought him out in a canoe, we took him aboard the whale
boat and then to a plane for a flight to see a doctor. |
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Ship forecastle all iced over. Warrant Officer Brotherton in the
middle. Adak Alaska April 1959. |
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Warrant Bosun Brotherton inspects the ice-coated
forecastle in Adak April 1959. |
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Bill Barker running the motor launch. |
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FN Spino showing that he's not afraid of any rough seas. |
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Bill Barker as a Boot Camper and today. |
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Lipan shipmates D.E. "Andy" Anderson and
Bill Barker . . . then and now. |
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"Andy" Anderson, Bill Barker and unknown. |
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Christmas in Hong Kong with the local kids and Bill Barker aboard Lipan. |
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Brown FN, Berry SN, the next two unkown, then Smitty |
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Brown, an FN, bought every local kid a Christmas gift
during a Lipan sponsored party. |
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Hong Kong cabbie, Bill Barker and maybe Ron Wilson.
1959. |
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Bill Barker with model T car that the movie crew kept around the set.
They wrote their names all over the car. Mitzy Gainer's name is on the car in front of me. They made us wear
their shirts and white hats so we'd be all alike. Oct. 1957 while Helping make the movie, South
Pacific. |
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L to R BM1 Gorman, SN Barker, BM2 White in the berthing
compartment. Circa 1958 |
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Totem Pole, Adak Alaska, April, 1959. |