William R. Morgan Jr. Navy tour 1959 to 1962
USS Tarawa CVS-40, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42
There was snow on the ground when I arrived in Jan. 5, 1959
Front door at Barracks Great Lakes Illinois
Marching in the snow with a Garand M-1 Rifle
Oh boy, New clothes
Practicing for fire control
Learning how to tie knots
I had a Thompson Machine gun like the mafia used
Athens Greece
Carl Litzkow and I in skid goofing off in bomb skid
Carl Litzkow holding down a practice bomb with our feet
Acropolis in Naples Italy
Naples Italy
Beer party on beach
Me behind statue that lost his head
Lounging in Coffee Locker, me 2nd from left
Me in back 3rd from left
Beach party, me front row 3rd from left
In coffee locker
Lazy day at sea
6 armed sea monster
Spit shining shoes getting ready to go on shore on liberty
EM Club Guantanamo Bay Cuba, I have scarf on head
Taking a dip in a pool
Loading bombs and Rockets on planes
I slept on the top bunk for 3 years
Naples Italy EM Club, me 2nd from left in 1960
I am on right side 3rd from the rear with hand over my face
Beside my bomb elevator, 1st on left
A4D Skyraider
Cannes, France
Me on Cannes France beach having a cool one.
Cannes beach
Cannes Beach girls ready for bed
Follow the line from the x and that is me leaning back. Carl lives in Newberry,
Florida next to Gainesville
Church
Coliseum in Naples Italy
My home for 3 years
EM club Naples Italy having a drink, 1st on left
Phil Lundgren and Me
A3ed's and A4d lined up on flight deck
Flight deck of the USS Tarawa CVS-40 Quonset Point Rhode Island
Taking on food stores, I am on the very end of the second row back on left
Beach beer party
Carl Litzkow, Phil Lundgren and Bill Morgan
Loading bombs and rockets, I am lookin down at the deck
Phil Lundgren
Me and Paul Waters
Local ladies
Carl Litxkow in front of the leaning tower of Pisa
Swim call while in the Mediterranean sea, Marines in Liberty Launch with rifles
to keep sharks away
John "Red" Redus and Carl Litzkow
Boxing match
Beach Party, Red standing
replenishment at sea
Making rockets ready to load on planes
Boy this is heavy!
Ship's patch
Rusty Rosey
USS Tarawa CVS 40 The first ship I was on until they decommissioned her in
Quonset Point Rhode Island
USS Tarawa, CVS 40
Carl Litzkow, Red Redus and R. L. Naylor
Walgreens took a copy of my picture