L to R: Lt. Robert Hoover (stores officer of DE-706) with Defoe Shipbuilding Inspectors Howard Dockett and Leonard DeLadurantaye May 1944 At Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan
L to R: Captain Hesselman (Com Eight Representative), Lt. Cdr. Victor Blue (CO), Chaplain. Civilian in back is Mr. DeFoe from the DeFoe Shipbuilding Company who built the HOLT Commissioning of HOLT in New Orleans, LA 9 June 1944
HOLT Being Commissioned
Guests on pier during commissioning ceremony There was no extra room on board
Captain Victor Blue leaving HOLT 19 Sept. 1945 in Manila
LT CDR Hogg, prospective EXEC on crutches in back because he fell in a bomb crater in Manila
Side boys for Captain Victor Blue's departure
Change of Command B.B. Anderson relieving Victor Blue
Inspection
The Gunnery Department Ordnance Gang "O" Division
Part of "C" Division
Torpedo Gang
Part of "C" Division L to R: ?, ?, ?, ?, Bill Morgan (QM 2/c), David Miller (RM 3/c), Eugene Walker (SoM 3/c), Henry Craig (Y 3/c), John Crawford (SoM 2/c), ?, Wilson Hoyt (SM 1/c)
L to R: John McGauley (GM 2/c), Frederick Lear (GM 3/c), Karl Nease (M 2/c), Albert Llaneza (WT 3/c)
Harold Roid (Bkr 2/c) and Thomas Sechler (Bkr 3/c)