One Man's War
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The officers and crew of the U.S.S. Orange at Long
Beach, California, before heading out to war.
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men in that section of the photo. (If you don't have a high-speed
connection to the Internet, please be patient--they're big files!)
Thanks to Mike Schiller (whose dad,
Barry, served aboard the Orange) for this photo. |
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Click on any photo below for a full-sized image. |
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Jim Hanlon (left), Gerry Lehoux and Ray Buchonis, crewmates and hometown friends, hold a captured Japanese flag on board the
U.S.S. Orange. The official Coast Guard caption is with the full-sized version of the photo. |
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The Coast Guard-crewed Orange, Navy patrol frigate PF43. |
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Midway Island, as seen from a gun position
aboard the Orange. |
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Haircuts were free aboard the Orange, but sometimes you had to wait in line. |
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Jim Hanlon (back row, second from right) and crewmates
at Long Beach, California. |
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Jim Hanlon and a buddy (it may be Gerry Lehoux) at the Navy drydocks at Long Beach, California, probably in 1944. Note the aircraft carrier in the background. |
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A troop transport at Pearl Harbor, probably in 1944. |
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Navy section base, Pearl Harbor. |
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Hanlon and a buddy in Tijuana, Mexico, on August 14, 1945. They probably didn't
know it at the time this photo was taken, but this was the day
the Japanese surrendered, ending World War II. |
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The war's end didn't mean Hanlon was finished with the Coast Guard. The photo was taken in 1946, while on weather station duty off the coast of Attu, an island in the Aleutians between Alaska and the Soviet Union. Quite a
change from the warmth of the Philippine Sea. |
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