USS Kennebec (AO-36) Association, Shipmates: Enlisted QRS

Photos Courtesy

James B. "Jim" Shurmack, SM3

Aboard September 1961 - February 1963


Jim, in 2003, introducing his 39-minute, 1-second video taken in 1962.
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Baum (?)

Jim Best, FN

E.M. Bunce, Jr., SA

Gerald Callahan

Mike Cueto, PC3

David D'Amico, SN

Ken Danyi

"Doc" and Jim

Charles Eldridge, BMSN

John Fennessey, QM3

Celestino Garza, Jr., FN

Remer Herring and Jim

Harold Holden, SM3

Don Howell, DK2

Lew Jones, SA

Ernest Johnson, EN3

Jim and Dan Koch

Joe Machado (?)

Thomas Madden, RD3

Jerry Markee

Ernest Martin, RD3

Bobby Oldham, QM2

John Oram, MM2

Ron Pesch, SN

Charlie Porfirio, Jr., BMSN and friend

Ken Romberg (?) and Jim

Jim, SM3

Wilson Temean, RM3

George Tobey, FTG3

Ernest White

Donald Wyatt, RD2

Fred Zimmer

Jim, SM3 & Steve Markovich, PN3

Philip Hartell, SN & Jack Schultz, EM2 & Steve Markovich, PN3

Jim, SM3; Joseph DeCosta, SN & Alan Schlosser, BT3

Del Boyer, FN & Vince Crowley, FN

David Strack, GMG3 & Billie Joe Duncan & Ray Wine, SM3

Jim, SM3 & Schultz & Peter Damon, SN

Joseph DeCosta, SN; Smith; Mailman; Mr. Clean; Peter Damon, SN; Lecher; Steve Markovich, PN3

Robert Pillion, RM2 & Thomas Madden, RD3 & Fred Zimmer, QMSN

Jim, SM3; Harold Holden, SM3; Whitey Helton, GMSN; George Eberwein, FN; Lewis Jones, SA; Larry Allen, RD3

A Group Playing Cards

Another Group Playing Cards

Mike Cueto, PC3; Chuck McCullough (?), Tom Rodriguez (?); Jim, SM3

Robert 'Moose' Glenn, ETN3 & Ray Wine, SM3

Robert 'Moose' Glenn, ETN3; Larry Allen, RD3; James McGlynn, SN; Wilson Temean, RM3; Jim, SM3

John Fennessey, QM3; Rock (?); Thomas Madden, RD3; Fred Matthews, SN; Pancho (?)

Remer Herring and Gary Chase

New York (?) and Jim

David Roller and Lewis "Sweat Pea" Jones

(back) Jim, Chuck, (front) Mike and Joe

George Tobey and Alan Schlosser