USS Diodon (SS-349) WestPac 1967
 By: James R. Santos 
on Diodon - TMSN(SG) to TM3(SS)

WestPac 1967 Photos from Herb Edwards

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Since 08-14-03

Updated captions 08-20-08
From Shipmate Gene Booth? to Shipmate John (J.C.) Horgan

Hi Jim,  Here are three pictures for you.  They have to be from 1967-1968 westpac.  The whole album was waterlogged for two days before I got to it.  I touched them up some.  07 is Gary Netcher, Don Mitchell, and me.  08 is Abe Sanchez and 09 is Don Mitchell & friend.  Probably in Yokosuka.  If these come thru OK, I have a few more.

 
Herb
I am sending them to one of my other accounts too

07 is Gary Netcher, Don Mitchell, Herb Edwards
 

09 is Don Mitchell & friend

           

08 is Abe Sanchez with lighten excerpt to try bring out his face a bit better



Bob Fees with fishing pole, and Abe Sanchez, in Buckner Bay, Okinawa on aft deck (excerpt from slide of Jim Santos, web-master)

Hi Jim, Here are a few more. The "Big Budda" one is, I think, Gary Netcher. I zoomed in to 200% and it did not look like him, so I don't know. All I have on the back is information about the Budda. I think that the picture of the Diodon is in Hong Kong. I have some black & white ones of when we swallowed a valve but I can't seem to get them to attach. I will keep trying.

Herb

Diodon pre-WestPac 1967 departure Blown Engine #1 Photos

From: Jay Mack JMACK@goaa.org
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:23 AM
To: 'jsantos'
Subject: RE: Herb Edwards pre WP and WP1967 photos

Jim,

I sure enjoyed these photos. As far as the unidentified shipmates I am really struggling. In the photos in front of the Buddah, the guy in the left photo looks like Edwards. The guy in the right photo resembles Gene Booth however, I am not sure Booth was on the WestPac trip or he joined us in the yards. I don't know the guy by the wishing well. Boy these brought back memories. I enjoyed a recent photo I saw of you. You sure haven't changed much. I will have someone take a photo of me and send it to you.

You probably won't recognize me.

Jay Mack

The "Big Buddah" at Kamakura, Japan

Shipmate Herb Edwards


The "Big Buddah" at Kamakura, Japan

Shipmate John (J.C.) Horgan
The "Big Budda" at Kamakura, Japan

210,000 pounds of Copper over 700 years old (in 1967) and 45 feet tall


Kamakura, Japan entrance wishing well

Shipmate John (J.C.) Horgan


Another American Submarine with crew on deck, perhaps for inspection, in Yokosuka, Japan? 

From the aft sweep of her sail, it could be the USS Segundo (SS-398)  See bottom of this page.

   

Nice photo of Diodon tied up at Yokosuka, Japan and
enlarged excerpt of our old and gone boat

       

(Compare to Abe Sanchez photo 08 above, i.e. location of brow forward of Sail, etc. indicates Yokosuka, Japan, not Hong Kong.  See and compare to my photos from Hong Kong with view forward and view aft, with British war ship behind us.  Also, compare to Diodon photo at left, in Yokosuka, Japan)

Diodon Forward Engine Room section view



Looking outboard, to sea, Buckner Bay, Okinawa

Looking to hills, with Diodon engine exhaust for port side Engine #4, After Engine Room in view
Hong Kong, BCC, maybe

A small view of Hong Kong Harbor

USS SEGUNDO (SS-398]