Posted 16 October 2013.
RDC (Chief Radarman) Glindell L. VanWinkle (Van to his shipmates) (Rip to his friends in later years) has passed away.
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Picture from the 1954 USS Helena Cruise Book
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Picture from the 1956 USS Helena Cruise Book
Shipmate Glindell Van Winkle and I were invited to a Philippine home. The food was wonderful.
I did not know bananas could be prepared in so many different ways--mmmmmmmmmm.
I took all the pictures that follow. It was Christmas Day 25 December 1953.
How I wish now, that I would have recorded the names of our hosts then.
Signed
David J. Brouchoud. Web Page Manager
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Van and I met the families.
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Van and the kids.
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The whole gang.
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This monument erected in honor of winning against the Japanese.