Message from Marvin Dockery
I get a lot of emails from children of ex US Navy sailors that have died. Please start your search on Google and Yahoo. Type in the name of the ship that your father was on. Most ships have a webpage, and reunions. Email the webmaster if you have to with your needs. Chances are that some of your father's friends attend these reunions.
Navy ships made a lot of cruises. Criuse books were made for the crew members after the cruise was finished. These cruise books from the 50's, 60's and 70's are offered today on ebay. Search ebay by first typing in the name of the ships you want information on. Do not forget the USS part.
Another place to look is on the navy bases listed at www.classmate.com.
EX Navy Photographers.
Please check out my NAAS Whiting Field gallery. There are some ex navy photographers that I am trying to locate or find information on. At the top of my list is some more informatiun about Chief Petty Officer Ernest J. Gaines, while he was stationed at the Subic Bay photo lab from 1960-64.
IF you knew him please contact me.
He left the NAAS Whiting Field photo lab in the summer of 1960 with a french wife and a stepson named Paul, age around ten years. (I was told in January of 2011 that they divorced, and she returned to France).
After he retired he stayed in the Philippines, owned a boat factory, had a different wife, and started a resort known as Gaines Beach. Google "Gaines Beach" for more information. Ernest died in 1985 and is interned at Gaines Beach. I have had a message from a guy that was living at Gaines Beach and helped load Ernest onto a banka boat, the evening he died. He had been in bad health for some time.
Check out the new image in Newport, RI singer Jim McGrath's gallery. It was made at a friends going away party in the summer of 1962.
Jim has a great CD out that has some of my 1962 photographs in the booklet. You might have to Google his name to find the CD. Jim was the folk singer at the old "Hunt Club" in 1962, located on a short pier off of Thames Street.
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Thanks
Marvin Dockery
Alcoa, TN.
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