In the picture the second officer on he left second row is Lieutenant John Chew who I stood quarter deck watches with several times and in 1966 while attending the 25th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor with the PHSA (Pearl Harbor Survivors Association) I with seven sailors from the Helena in a hotel room one evening when one of them said he had just taken a cruise around Ford Island and saw a sign on Ford Island that said "Vice Admiral Chew's Headquarters." We all wondered if it could be the same Chew we knew on the Helena in 1940-41, so we got on the phone and called him at the number in the book; his wife Julia answered the phone and when we told her who we were and that we would like to speak to the Admiral, she gave us a number at the Officer's club, at 11:00 PM (2300 hr.). We called him at the club and he talked with each of us for several minutes. The next day we all got a phone call inviting us with our wives to a cocktail party at his home on Ford Island. He told us that the Admiral's Barge would be at the dock in Pearl Harbor to pick us up at (1300 hr.); when we arrived at his dock on Ford Island, there he was with his wife Julia to greet us when we stepped on the dock. We all had a great three hour bull session and a lot of pictures were taken which I still treasure. Another person in the picture is Lieutenant Junior Grade Jim (Jungle Jim) Baird who I also stood quarter deck watches with; he was a star tackle on Navy's Football Team in 1937 38 and they beat Army. I saw him again in Reno, Nevada at the Helena's ships reunion about 12 years ago and I showed him the picture and to my surprise he had never seen it, so I promised him I would have a copy made and send it to him which I did and got a very nice thank you letter.
Other officers in the picture are:
Commander C.G. Richardson, Executive Officer
Commander P.P. Maher, Doctor (MC)
Lieutenant Commander D.H. Johnson, Navigator
Lieutenant Commander E.C. Buerkle, Engineering Officer
Lieutenant Commander L.A. Marrow
Lieutenant C.O. Cook
Lieutenant Junior Grade P.L. Folsom
Lieutenant Junior Grade W.C. Boles
Ensign M.T. Tyng
Ensign C.S. Radford
Ensign Wells
Ensign R.L. Cochrane
Ensign H.S. Washburn
Ensign D.H. Pope
(The story does not provide positions
of the officers in the picture. Ed.)