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Log of website additions and updates:

Mar 28, 2008 - Identified Lt Benjamin Evans Jasper in the Change of Command Photo  submitted by his daughter, Jeannie and his son-in-law Damian
Mar 10, 2008 - Added an awesome music video Before You Go by John Melnick   submitted by Lew Pringle
Mar 09, 2008 - Added more information and a photo for Felix Miller, plus a link to Sampson Naval Training info. submitted by his daughter, Linda Kocisek
Mar 08, 2008 - Added a page for George Washington Smith  submitted by his grandson, Peter J. Smith
Mar 08, 2008 - Dick Minich, Hen Hemphill and Bill Herman provided information about the USS Pringle's journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Mar 08, 2008 - Identified Harold Franklin McWilliams in the Division A Photo  submitted by his daughter, Sandy Carrell 
Mar 08, 2008 - Added a page for Donations to support the USS Pringle Memorial Fund.  
Jan 22, 2008 - Added an additional reference and more information on the Kingfisher OS2U aircraft 
Jan 20, 2008 - Added some info and a photo of Vice Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle 
Jan 15, 2008 - Identified John Thomas Pumroy in the Division B Photo   submitted by his granddaughter, Pam Gomall

Sep 30, 2007 - Identified Geoffrey W. Pope (Jeff) in the Sampson Naval Academy Company 515 photo  submitted by his son Colin Pope

Jun 30, 2007 - Added a page for a website award from the USS Hancock CV/CVA-19 Memorial   submitted by Ken 'Jake' Jaccard, YN3, USNR-R '61-'67
Jun 30, 2007 - Added a new page with some information about the USS Pringle from Jack Lewis  (survivor)  submitted by Jack Lewis
Apr 24, 2007 - Identified Lt. Benjamin Evans Jasper in the DeMet Officers Photo  submitted by his daughter, Jeannie and his son-in-law Damian
Apr 24, 2007 - Added a new page with a photo and some information about Arthur A. Cappuccio   submitted by Arthur V. Cappuccio
Apr 24, 2007 - Added new photos, location and information about the USS Pringle Memorial in Charlestown, SC   submitted by Arthur V. Cappuccio
Apr 10, 2007 - David Wesley Hinshaw, in the Division C Photo   submitted by his nephew, Chris Evans
Mar 29, 2007 - Added a new photo from the Sampson Naval Academy, Company 482, Dec 14, 1944  submitted by Kathy Milonas 
Feb 23, 2007 - Added a new page with a photo and some info on Delbert Benson   submitted by his niece, Gloria Olms
Feb 17, 2007 - Identified Thomas Watson Kinsey, in the Division B Photo   submitted by his son, Richard L. Kinsey, Sr.
Feb 7, 2007 - Added several photos and information about George Arthur Munro Jr. F1c  submitted by his daughter, Linda Blank
Jan 24, 2007 - Identified Ltjg Robert Peter Wander in photo1 and photo2  submitted by his son, Dan Wander
Jan 24, 2007 - Added a new page with a photo and some info on Albert Matthew Taylor  submitted by his daughter, Christina Lair
Jan 21, 2007 - Added a new page with some info on David Kenneth Pope  submitted by his son Steve
Jan 21, 2007 - Updated all email links to me / Please email me if you find any links that don't work properly or any website errors or omissions, Thank You!
Jan 21, 2007 - Added a photo and new page for Thomas Russell Haugen  submitted by one of his cousins, Jo Anne Sadler
Jan 21, 2007 - Identified Lt. George Gilmer Craddock, Jr. in the photo of CDR George DeMetropolis and his officers  submitted by his nephew, Neil Hammerstrom
Oct 1, 2006 - Added a great photo of Warren Hunter Chapple, his son Kenneth and a copy of the letter we all fear  submitted by Bill Brouillard Jr
Sep 5, 2006 - Added sad news about Harry W. Wall  submitted by his son, Stan Wall
Mar 28, 2006 - Added a photo of Gene Robert Messer and a bio  submitted by his son, Rev. Mr. Gene Messer
Feb 6, 2006 - Added a photo of Edward Roy Burton and a bio  submitted by Cliffornia J. Rolle
Feb 4, 2006 - Added photos of Ray Arvel England and a letter he wrote home one month before the Pringle sank  submitted by his Niece, Karen Wade
Feb 2, 2006 - Identified Robert John Guzowski, in the Division A Photo   submitted by his Grandson, Mike Guzowski
Nov 29, 2005 - Added a Photo of Claude Diehl  submitted by Claude Diehl
Oct 28, 2005 - Identified Samuel John Cardella in the Division C Photo   submitted by Claude Diehl
Oct 28, 2005 - Identified William Clarence Mundt in the Division C Photo  submitted by Claude Diehl
Oct 28, 2005 - Identified Andrew John Balog in the Division C Photo  submitted by Claude Diehl
Oct 28, 2005 - Identified Claude Diehl in the Division C Photo  submitted by Claude Diehl
Sep 4, 2005 - Identified Eugene Ralph Smith in the Division C Photo  submitted by his Daughter, Jeannie Braun
Aug 26, 2005 - Identified Peter Ross Wilson in the Division B Photo  submitted by his Daughter, Wendy Wilson Arnold
Aug 24, 2005 - How tough were those seaplane landings? An article written by a pilot  submitted by Jack G. Eastman  (an ex US Navy ASW Air crewman)
Aug 16, 2005 - Identified Charles Essay Jr in the Division C Photo   submitted by his son David Essay
May 12, 2005 - Identified Emery Wayne Harned in the Division A Photo  submitted by his Daughter, Roseanne Wilson
Apr 23, 2005 - Identified Robert Daltan Hinkson in the Division C Photo  submitted by his Grandson, Eric Hinkson
Mar 12, 2005 - Add two photos of CDR DeMetropolis and his Officers  submitted by Dan Wander, son of Ltjg. Robert P. Wander
Mar 1, 2005 - Added History of the 'Pringle' family   submitted by Lew Pringle
Mar 1, 2005 - Added USS Pringle Change of Command Photo ~ May 29 1944   submitted by Dan Wander, son of Ltjg. Robert P. Wander  
Mar 1, 2005 - Added USS Pringle 'Bill of Fare' for the General Mess / week beginning Sept 28 1942
Mar 1, 2005 - Added USS Pringle History ~ Office of Naval Records and History
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photos and information on Anthony Louis Volpe    submitted by his daughter ~ Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of Robert John Boykin    submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of John Adam Wasilewski   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of Clement Leon Wojciechowski   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of Charles Paul Rapp   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of Edwin Donald Fischer   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Feb 27, 2005 - Added photo of Wesley Davis McAlpine   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Jan 22, 2005 - Added a 1992 USS Pringle Reunion group photo taken aboard the USS Kidd DD-661 in Baton Rough, LA   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Jan 22, 2005 - Added photo of Mount 1, Mount 2, Bridge and Kingfisher  submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Jan 22, 2005 - Added photo of Mount 1, Mount 2, view from the Bridge  submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Jan 22, 2005 - Added photo of the View from Mount 4 overlooking the fantail   submitted by Toni Volpe Greetis
Dec 14, 2004 - Added information on Lt. Richard J. Golston  submitted by his Grandson, Jeremy A. Golston
Nov 12, 2004 - Added USS Pringle Casualty List  submitted by Richard Minich and Toni Greetis, daughter of Anthony Volpe
Oct 11, 2004 - Added a photo of Harold Joseph Cheesebro  submitted by his son Tom
Oct 11, 2004 - Added a newspaper article with photo Jack Elmer Cruez  submitted by Jane Haldeman, daughter of John C Haldeman
Oct 10, 2004 - Added a newspaper article mentioning Robert Dudley Woods  submitted by Jane Haldeman, daughter of John C Haldeman
Oct 5, 2004 - Added newspaper articles on Lloyd Glen Carter  submitted by Jane Haldeman, daughter of John C Haldeman
Oct 5, 2004 - Added information and newspaper articles on John (Jack) Carter Haldeman  submitted by Jane Haldeman, daughter of John C Haldeman
Oct 5, 2004 - Added a Time Magazine article about the Okinawa radar picket line, July 9, 1945   submitted by Jane Haldeman, daughter of John C Haldeman
Sep 28, 2004 - Added a photo and some info on Rexford Carl Williams  (survivor)   submitted by his nephew Mark Brennan
Aug 4, 2004 - Added a new photo from the Sampson Naval Academy, Company 580, May 20, 1944
Jul 25, 2004 - Added information about John Artis Branton
Jul 25, 2004 - Added information about William Raymond Jennings

Jul 25, 2004 - Added a news article about the USS Pringle  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified Frank Atria in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified James Wash in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified George Wilburn Carnley in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified Richard William Minich in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified John Franklin Berry in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 25, 2004 - Identified Jack Elmer Cruze in the Division C Photo  (submitted by Dick Minich)

Jul 24, 2004 - Added a Photo and info for Harry Curwood Churchill  (submitted by his daughter, Jan (Churchill) Redelsperger)

Jul 24, 2004 - Identified Robert Emson Odom in the Division A Photo  (submitted by The Robert Odom family)

Jul 24, 2004 - Added Windjammer April 1999 article and photos about the Memorial Service held over the site where the USS Pringle sank
                              Provided by Mr John Imada, Yokohana, Japan
Apr 24, 2004 - Added a Photo of Richard William Minich   (survivor)
Apr 24, 2004 - Identified Robert Eric DeBartolo in the Division C Photo   (survivor)   submitted by his daughter Dolores Brown
Dec 30, 2003 - Added a link to memories of Edwin Fischer   (survivor)  (off-site link)
Nov 10, 2003 - Added a Wartime photo, recent obituary and Presidential letter ~ Michael Vincent Daniels
Nov 6, 2003 - Identified John Raymond Riggs in the Division A Photo (submitted by his daughter, Pamela A. Riggs Terrell)
Nov 4, 2003 - Added two new Photo's of George DeMetropolis, one as a Ltjg. and another as LCDR
                                        provided by Jan DeMetropolis on her late father-in-law, George DeMetropolis
Nov 4, 2003 - Added "It is the Veteran" (submitted by Howard Melvin (Muggs) Hunt)
Oct 24, 2003 - Added the Cover, some pages and advertisements from Our Navy Magazine ~ Mid-November 1943
                         Contains the same information reported by 
                         United Press Staff Correspondent Frank Hewlett in the
                         Washington Daily News on Saturday August 28, 1943  
                               contributed by Don Larson, son of Admiral Larson
Oct 17, 2003 - Added Photo and info on Thomas Gale Williams  (survivor)
Oct 16, 2003 - Added obituary for Felix Alvin Miller  (survivor)
Oct 9, 2003 - Added Captain George DeMetropolis  Transcript and Personal Data
                                   provided by his daughter-in-law Jan DeMetropolis
Oct 5, 2003 - Added Captain George DeMetropolis Naval Biography
                                    provided by his daughter-in-law Jan DeMetropolis
Oct 5, 2003 - Added Ltjg. George DeMetropolis wedding announcement in the USS North Carolina Newsletter
                                    provided by his daughter-in-law Jan DeMetropolis
Oct 5, 2003 - Identified all the Engineers in their Photo
Sep 21, 2003 - Added Admiral Larson's personal Pringle photo collection (18 high quality photos)
                                   
contributed by Don Larson, son of Admiral Larson
Sep 20, 2003 - Added Photos, Invitation and Program from the launching of the USS Pringle
                                   
contributed by Don Larson, son of Admiral Larson
Sep 20, 2003 - Added information on the late CDR George DeMetropolis 
                                   
provided by his daughter-in-law Jan DeMetropolis
Sep 19, 2003 - Identified all the CPOs in their Photo
Sep 16, 2003 - Identified all the Officers in their Photo
Sep 15, 2003 - Reorganized the Crew Photos, identifying the Officers, CPO's, Engineers, and Divisions A, B, and C
Sep 10, 2003 - Added a map of Okinawa Radar Pickett Stations 
Aug 28, 2003 - Added new photos  (Officers, CPO's, Engineers, and new divisions) 
                                    
contributed by Ralph Herbert Wendt, his son Michael Wendt and daughter Jacklyn Delort
Aug 10, 2003 - Added a Photo of Earnest Whitehead from a 1937 yearbook
Aug 7, 2003 - Made some additions to the information on the 'Rescue Ships' menu page
Aug 03, 2003 - Added more info on Sylvester Sandelier, pictures and papers  (survivor and my Dad)
Aug 03, 2003 - Added actual scan of the August 28, 1943 Washington Daily News Article
Aug 02, 2003 - Added memories of the Sinking of the USS Pringle, by Mat Dymek  (survivor)
Jul 27, 2003 - Added the Obituary of Earnest Whitehead, wounded at Vella Lavella  (he died a few days later)
Jul 26, 2003 - Added a Washington Daily News article about the Vella Lavella attack, dated August 28, 1943
Jul 26, 2003 - Added a letter from Vice Admiral Larson that was read at the Oct 5, 1991 USS Pringle reunion
Jul 26, 2003 - Added LCS(L)(3)-34 Deck Log (16 Apr 45 to 20 Apr 45)
Jul 26, 2003 - Added LCS(L)(3)-34 Deck Log (13 Apr 45 to 16 Apr 45)
Jul 25, 2003 - Added an Action Report from LCS(L)(3)-34 for 16 Apr 45
Jul 23, 2003 - Added a new Photo of the USS Pringle, viewed from USS Nicholas at Purvis Bay, August 1943
Jul 20, 2003 - Added a Poem by two sons of Michael Vincent Daniels  (survivor)