Various Pictures

• Plane guard
• Name that ship (USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG/CG-17), according to RD2 David Dankenbring)
• Taken between Pearl Harbor and Guam, prior to arrival in Subic Bay.  Received from Mike Fitzgerald by Mike Zippert. Pictured on the Top row left to right is Tom Pemberton, Frank Gorman, Gene Surber and Mike Fitzgerald.  The bottom row Left to right  Tom or Robert Pugh ,  Michael Zippert  and Not sure who is next to me. I am kneeling. 
• Immediately after hitting the mines and moving offshore
• Mud on Mount 52 from the mines (Mike Zippert)
• Alongside Reclaimer (RS-42)
• Port side crew
•  P-250 pumping
•  Port side crew again
• Asroc deck
• Engineers on deck (the seldom seen)
• Constant bearing on USS Reclaimer
•  Passing the tow line
• Whew!! Missed
• Just in case
• Tow line watch (FTG3 Dave Breiner recognized Carlos Santos[front] Charles (?)Wolford {2nd} GM3 Steve Lemke{4th} )
• P-250’s strain to keep us afloat
  
• A mess cook (SDSN Ron Scott) dishes up steaks salvaged from the reefer spaces and cooked over charcoal–served with canned plums (Yccch!!)
  
• Close in unrep to get more P-250s and some hot food
  
• Reclaimer gets between an immovable object (us) and a hard place (them)
• Along the bottom of the hull in drydock. (This shot doesn’t really show the rippled plating from the blast pushing the plates between the frames.)
• Radar gang in drydock at Subic–This picture was from Chip Chapin (left to right)
  • 4^th (Back) Row:  RD1 Keith Swoverland ?, RD2 David Dankenbring, Chief Spencer Errickson, Ensign Lindsay Waters
  • 3^rd Row:  RD2 Richard Crutchley, RDSA ? ?, RD2 Steve Mountain, RDSN ? Gordon
  • 2^nd Row:  RD3 Larry H?, Chip Chapin RDSA,
  • 1^st (Front) Row:  RD2 John Callahan, RDSN Joe Dashner, RD3 Bruce Minkler
  • Note, the unnamed RDSA and RDSN Gordon reported on-board the Warrington in the Philippines after we were towed back from the explosions.  Also note, I think by this time, the radar rating had changed to operation specialist but for ease, I labeled us all as RD.
• Lt. Dwyer (in overhauls), Cdr. Petree and RADM Bulkely, in the drydock talking over Warrington’s fate.
• Final Word–On August 25, 1972, we finally heard the bad word in an all-ship meeting in the hold of a nearby LST gearing up for CDR Bucher’s minesweeping expedition to Haiphong–decommissioning.
• The Warrington’s Last Cruise Book
• Mike Zippert just after getting off of Warrington, on the Flight deck of USS Coronado (LPD-11). He was 20 years old at that time.
  

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