Logo from a painting by Robert Morris
                       


Front row:  l to r: Paul Baker, Donald Harbick, Jon Wilkinson, Donald Leinweber, Earl Beach,
Thomas Weiger, Robert Carroll, Donald Schaapman, Walter Martin, Edward Margo, Claude Pope, Keith Braketa
 Center: Harold Switzer, Leroy Nopper, Ted Flowers, Doyle Russell, Merlin (Mike) Iverson,
Donald Thiesen, Austen Doolittle, Austin Moore, Richard Mueller, Maurice Laocque, Loren Gates
Back: Lloyd Hightower, Paul Price, Walter Menck, Richard Netolicky, Norwood Rothwell, Joe Zarzynski,
Fred Garside, Leon Lewis, Marvin Gast, Bob Biles
 

Reunion 2008: National Museum of the US Navy, Pensacola, FL

 

L/R: Earl Beach/ Richard Netolicky/ Austin Moore / ? / Richard Mueller /  ? / Robert Carroll / Walter Martin /
Robert Humphreys / Merlin Iverson / Austin Doolittle / ? / Donald Schaapman / Jon Wilkinson
 
Back row Behind Robert Carroll is /Loran Gates/
  "        "      "      Robert Humphreys is Marv Gast
  "        "       "     Austin Doolittle is   Donald Sullivan
 

Reunion 2009: Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio

 Standing L-R: Robert Fleck, Austin Doolittle, Don Schaapman, Marv Gast, Earl Beach,
Leon Lewis, Loren Gates, Jon Wilkinson
Kneeling L-R: Robert Carroll. Richard Mueller, Ted Flowers, Donald Thiesen
 
 
 

VJ-1 Roster, Alphabetical, as supplied by Earl Beach.
Asterisk indicates the name on file is the widow or a relative.
For more info contact Earl Beach PB4Y2eeb@aol.com 
O. B. Adams* Raymond R Anderson                                                             
William D. Baldridge* Ervin R. Ballentine*               Earl R. Beach
Joseph L. Belton Richard F. Bibby               Bob Bliss
Robert W. Bodenheimer Charles A. Bonata               Keith Braketa
William C. Bridgeman* William D. Broeffle               Harry Brogan
Herchel M. Browne William E. Bryant               Jack E. Cargal
John T. Coughlin Charles N. Dodds               Austen W. Doolittle
Rex A. Ersham* Martin C. Franz               Charles F. Farr
Robert H. Fleck Ted Flowers               Robert L. Fredricksen
Fred P. Garside Marvin M. Gast               Loren D. Gates
George V. Gauer Jack C. Goodman*               Ronald B. Gray
Thomas Grissom Donald L. Harbick               Marvin L. Hampton*
Lloyd C. Hightower Robert V. Humphreys               Merlin Iverson

John "Jack" Janus

    
Reginald E. Jenkins James E. Juhl               Percy E. Kedigh*
James J. Krekovich John R. Labusky               Jim Lang
Morris P. Larocque U. T. Holiday               Donald M. Leinweber
Leon D. Lewis Donald J. Lewellyn               Luther M. Lott
Edward P. Margo Steve Marsden               Walter F. Martin
Franki McBride* Walter Mencke               Austin L. Moore
Richard F. Mueller Benjamine F. Mullikin               Richard Netolicky
John H. Nonly Leroy N. Nopper               Patrick D. O'Holloran
John L. Pannell Ralph Parlin               Claude Pope
Paul Price Mary Rainbolt*               Alfred R. Raxter
John Reenan Thomas L. Robinson               R. Norman Rothwell
Max J. Roushman Doyle L. Russell               Donald Schaapman
Rex Sharp Norman J. Stephens*               Arthur J. Stott*
Donald Sullivan Harold V. Switzer               Donald J. Thiesen
Laurence P. Thompson David O. Toles               Fred Troescher
Bernie M. Tucker Leroy H. Victor               John E. Walpole*
Fletcher B. Watson John F. Weber*               "Whiz" White
Thomas W, Wieger Raymond G. Wiese               John D. Wilkinson
John J. Witten Elmer Wohl               Douglas Worsley
Joe Zarzynski Bob Zimmer               Don Zimmerman
     

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