Date: 8 April 1997
Name: Jim Foley
Where are you from?: San Mateo, CA
Years aboard Gurke: 1945-1946
Comments:

Date: 7 April 1997
Name: George Busby
Where are you from?: Cecil, AR
Years aboard Gurke: 1950 to February 1954
Comments: Hi Crosby looking for Bryant Young, Dowell Miller and Castleberry. Would like to hear from all from the forward engine room.

Date: 4 April 1997
Name: Tom Toensing
Where are you from?: Palmdale, CA
Years aboard Gurke: None. Father-In-Law 1947-1948
Comments: Keep it up

Date: 4 April 1997
Name: Norman (Si) Darling    
Where are you from?: Greshom, WI 54128
Years aboard Gurke: 1949-1952
Comments: I was operating the Main Battery Director Rangefinder during the Inchon Invasion . I had the best view of all. It was awesome. My fellow shipmates were the best in the world.

I won't be able to be at the reunion in San Diego but will try to get to the (Ship's Bell) Dedication in Bismark, North Dakota. I am trying to find two fellow firecontrolman Baxter Campell and Walter Murphy. This a Wonderful Page and I wish everybody a happy time in San Diego, I have some good memories with my fellow shipmates while seving aboard the Gurke and visiting the various ports in the Far East.

Date: 12 March 1997
Name: Harrold E. Williamson     (Email address expired)
Where are you from?: 105 Williamson Street, Rockaway, NY 11518
Years aboard Gurke: January 1966 to May 1967 M-Division
Comments: Please write or call if anyone else is suffering from Agent Orange. We were exposed while on the Saigon River. (516) 599-2871

Date: 7 March 1997
Name: Bruce Bradley
Where are you from?: Grosse Pointe, MI
Years aboard Gurke: 1967 to 1968 Included one WestPac cruise
Comments: I was the First Lieutenant, sometimes known as "head janitor". After the Gurke I went to the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong River for a year. Needless to say Gurke was much better. Looking forward to the reunion in San Diego and hope to see some of the guys from this era, including Ralph Humbertson and Joe Dawson. Hope to share lots of sea stories. (for some reason I remember the good times, meaning good people) By the way the only difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is that a fairy tail begins with "Once upon a time" and a sea story begins with " This ain't no s..."

Date: 7 March 1997
Name: Phillip Spencer BT1
Where are you from?: Indianapolis, Indiana
Years aboard Gurke: 1952-1953
Comments: Please contact me if you would like to chat.

Date: 6 March 1997
Name: William R. Davis     
Where are you from?: Santa Clara, CA
Years aboard Gurke: 1965-1967
Comments: Worked on DASH. ETR2 WV Division

Date: 4 March 1997
Name: Frank F. Haun
Where are you from?: Ivyland, PA
Years aboard Gurke:
Comments: MM3 on USS Shelton DD-790 1957 to 1960. Member of Tin Can Sailors.

Date: 4 March 1997
Name: Lynn Elman Peterson
Where are you from?: Originally McKeesport, PA
Years aboard Gurke: Jan 1967 to Jan 1970
Comments: Left the "ol' gurke" as Stg2. Knew Bob Neaves very well. Some of the other Weps. Dept. guys were Vern Hoew, Tim Turner, Leon Encineas, Ens Sweet, LtJg Schlitdig, Edward Mull, Leslie Johnstone (and his "white eared elephant"), ect. How about those great liberty ports, like Subic, a place you could smell many hours before ever seeing land. What ever happened to Susie North SAR and Sally South SAR. Remember the seemingly endless, sunless days steaming alone in the Gulf? How about Korea and and the mission to rescue the Pueblo? I could go on and on, but I'll stop for now. We were all totally nuts in those days!