1947 Pictures - pg 1

San Diego 1947 - Capitaine, Carbonero, Chivo, Cusk, and Diodon scramble to get underway from alonside the tender USS Nereus and avoid a collision with the USS Sperry which is adrift just outside the pictures (Boberick)(b47b0200).

1947 - Chivo delivers chow to a Pacific LORAN station (Hagen)(b47h0137).

1947 - Chivo's radio room (Hagen)(b47h0142).

1947 - Transit home from Japan. Stopped at Midway to take EN1(SS) Kenneth Carlson to the hospital (Hagen)(b47h0144).

1946-47 Chivo had 6 rocket launchers installed and each could fire a tray of 12 rockets (Sather)(b47s0021).

1946-47 Chivo's stern in drydock (Sather)(b47s0022).

QM1(SS) Edgar Boyd (47-47) became a Shellback on 08 Sept 1947 while a member of Chivo's crew. Here is a later picture of him (c47b1244) (Blanton).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (Harvey) (c47h0101).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (Harvey) (c47h0102).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (Harvey) (c47h0103).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (Harvey) (c47h0104).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (pic #5). The sailor on the far right with the cocked hat is MM2 / EN2(SS) Ellery Cadiz. Contact Stan if you can name any of the others (Harvey)(c47h0105).

1947 - Beach party at Suva, Fiji (Harvey) (c47h0106).

1947 - ET3(SS) Stedman "Willie" Wilson (Hagen)(c47h0140).

1947 - Arriving Suva, Fiji (Heinzman)(c47h0148).

1947 - Sub school class - SN1c George "Bobby" Hardin (47-48) is in the front row, the 5th person from the left on his knee (Hardin)(c47h0822).

Sept 1947 - Chivo arriving Suva (Lammer)(c47l0016).

1947 - Jim Reedy in Japan (Reedy)(c47r0151).