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Can you help identify any of the personnel in this IB Class photo? Yes, I can help!

Back Row (L-R):    unknown - unknown - Paul R. Caplette - Twillinger - unknown - unknown - Varone Middle Row (L-R):    unknown - Hughes - unknown - Chief Akers - unknown - Sienna (sp?) - Robert Payton Front Row (L-R):    unknown - Hamblin - unknown - unknown

Middle row, hat over eye, second from end, Frank Viola. Bottom row in front of you. Jim Yeargain. I can still see all these guys but the names escape. 18B advanced. Top row. last two. E.B. Garney. Jim Yeargain. Bottom row second from the end. Charlie Weber, I believe. The top row. Tall BM3. was a fast pitch softballer. Threw BB's. Made all kinds of Navy teams in softball. Name maybe Myers. Mike Varone Charlie Weber, Hughes, me, and the first sailor on the left in the bottom row all went to March AFB. Bottom row first on the left. Name is something like Goodenough. I remember him because he was from Boise or Pocatello, Idaho. I had never met anyone from Idaho before. But what the hey, I'm from Brooklyn. I never met anybody from anywhere until I enlisted. R/ Mike Varone