Crew 10 - circa 1958 Submitted 3/05 by SFBrooks@aol.com ...  can anyone help with the names of these "now older" gentlemen?  
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Top row from left to right       
    First officer  LTJG  ?
    Second       LTJG Williams
    Third           LTJG Joel Blackford (updated May, 2011...Thanks Joel)
    Fourth         LT     Raymer

Bottom row from left to right
   Stanley Brooks (me)
   John Haney
   Gates Adelman
   ? McMurtry
   ? Graves
   Sankey Bridgewater (plane captain)






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1953 to 1958
Back Row: Lt. Murdock, (5) Kenny Blumener, (13) Joe Hurreur, (9) Ens. Hal Kuhn, Coach, (2) J. B. Wagner, (4) Ens. Jim Roberston, (7) Herb Henderson, (12) Spence MacDonald, Commander Ruth (C.O. of VP-18).
Front Row: (8) Kirt Dorech, (3) Donald Schmidt, (14) Al Lutrin, (Unknown number) Wayne Lacy, (6) Bill McDonald, (11) John Harder.

  Thank you Bill McDonald for saving this memory of the 1953 VP-18 UNBEATEN CHAMPS of NAS Jacksonville, Florida
This page was last updated on: January 15, 2012
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Many of you will remember NAS Sigonella, Sicily in 1961...and the "Ready One" Hut where the "Alert Crew " lived for 24-hours.

By the time we left after 6 months, VP-18 had "landscaped the path and entrance to our comfortable temporary home.
1961...LG-9...Lt. Jim Wicke PPC ("The Thumper"),                            Co-pilot...Ltjg. R.F. Ward
LG-8...Lt. Weir, PPC (Patrol Plane Commander)
The "Alert Aircraft"
Jerry Hansen.  He was one of the men whose plane crashed in Iceland (crew 9)
left to right,  Jerry Hansen, John Sabine (deceased) and William Funke
(Thanks Bill for sharing these 6 photos in 2012)
Taken in P.R.  left to right, William Funke,  Gene Snelson (deceased) and unknown.  Our outdoor laundry facilities.
Ground crew at Luqa, Malta.   Left to right, R.O Fant, Unknown, Bill Funke, Bob Cocking and Art Cayo
Clyde Thiets and Bob Cocking.
I am reattaching the picture of Clyde and Marge Thiets.  (Their wedding photo in 1952 taken in front of the Catholic Chapel at Jax-NAS.)   My husband will be so pleased to see the photos on the web-site.
Sincerely,
Catherine Funke (2012)
Crew 5  ; left to right, John Detmer, Joe Bordeaux, Winston Gohl,  man unknown,  Gene Snelson (man with back turned) is Sam Myrick
Thule, Greenland
Crew 10 (Men Unknown)
Argentia, New Foundland ....Bill Funke
VP-18 Squadron Reunion 2002 - Jacksonville, Florida.... Left to Right
Clyde Thiets, Bill Funke, Archie Coop, Bob Cocking, and Teddy  Brown
Plane Captain - Bill Funke