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Entry: 80281 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	ANY TORTUGA 26 SHIPMATES
KIRK STRICKFADEN wrote on September 6, 2011 City and State: LYNCH STATION VA Unit: TT 26 ASSOC. WEBMASTER Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: I am looking for anyone that may have personal phots while on board the TT26, years and dates don't matter, I was recently asked to take over as the webmaster for the Assoc. as my father was a crew member. I am in need of any photos that used to be on the website before July 2011. in the transfer of files from my laptop to the site after remodeling the site the images seemed to have vanished. anything will help. Thank you in advance and most of all, thank you for your service and welcome home. Keywords:

Entry: 69511 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)
LOUIS COLEMAN wrote on March 16, 2009 City and State: ATLANTA GA Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: Keywords:

Entry: 66911 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	UPDATING E-MAIL AND CURENT ADDRESS
WAYMAN STANLEY wrote on August 17, 2008 City and State: RIDGEWAY SC Unit: QM 2 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: Served on Tortuga 1954-1957 Keywords: USS Tortuga LSD 26

Entry: 43336 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	LSD-26 TORTUGA
RAY FARLEY wrote on May 29, 2004 City and State: WISCONSIN RAPIDS WI Unit: EMP3-ELECTRICAL DIV. Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Eighteen months pleasure cruse 1950-1951. Saw photograph on T.V. of the Tortuga as part of a man made sunken reef for marine life off of Florida last year, 2003. Keywords:

Entry: 41178 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	UPDATE ON USS TORTUGA LSD 26
DAVE GONZALES wrote on February 22, 2004 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: President Duane Panter E mail pantboats@gtme Vice President Jack Shimizu E mail jacia@ite.net Secretary Marvin Miller E mail mejammcj@netins.net Treasurer,Newsletter Ed.,Membership Chairman,Keeper of the Roster,Historian,Jack Hammond E mali smokearrow@aol.com. Newsletter Co-Ed,Kepper of the TT,Photo Album, Georgia Hammond E mail Geomham@aol.com Chaplain,Long Beach Reunion 2004,Coordinator, Larry Fay lalofay@dslextreme.com Ship Store Keeper Thomas Hamlin E mail xsmall2@comcast.net TT Assoc.Web-page Ed. Chuck's Home Port.Chuck Westbrock. E mail ttwmaster@aol.com Trustee 2004 Bill Brashears E mail bus9761@aol.com Trustee 2005 Carl Palmer Lsd 46 E mail dockmaster 7@hotmail.com Trustee2006 Jesus Valasquez No e mail Web Master LSD 46 Ens.Ernest Jessop E mail jessope@tortuga.navy.mil or ejessop@cox.net TT Assoc.Founded in 1990 By Tom Evens BM3 E mail plowboy@net-link.net Thank You Keywords:

Entry: 34353 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	WHO WAS THE COMMANDER OF THE TORTUGA
CARLA LAMONTE wrote on May 23, 2003 City and State: PINE GROVE CA Unit: CHECKING FOR MY BOYFRIEND WHO GOT A COMDRS CAP FRO Service or Relationship: FRIEND OF VETERAN Comments: my boyfriend worked with the comdr of the ship in Pebble beach ca, the cmdr gave him a cap. He has many pictures of the Uss Tortuga and is building a library to it's memory. Can you give me his name again? I don't want to embarass myself by asking my boyfriend again, but I think he would like to give the comdr a gift as a thank you. Keywords: none

Entry: 34064 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	SON OF EXEC
HENRY TELLER wrote on May 8, 2003 City and State: PALESTINE TX Unit: FATHER WAS EXEC. DURING KOREA/INCHON Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My father was exec. during Korean conflict, LCDR Henry de Peyster Teller, USNR, the CO was CDR Edmund Busk, (later captain) Have numerous photos of amphib ops in Korea, including the Inchon Invasion. Keywords:

Entry: 33034 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	OPERATION PASSAGE TO FREEDOM
WAYMAN STANLEY wrote on March 24, 2003 City and State: MT. PLEASANT SC Unit: OPERATIONS DIV. QM / SM 2 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Photos of Passage to Freedom. Indo China 1954 Transportation of French Foreign Legion; Vietnameese refugees from Honoi to the south. For inclusion in Family Military History. Keywords: Tortuga

Entry: 32824 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	USS TORTUGA 26 1945/1946
ALAN (AL) INNES wrote on March 16, 2003 City and State: PHOENIX AZ Unit: Service or Relationship: - Comments: Member of the commision crew in 1945, in the starboard engine room on USS Tortuga (LSD) 26. Interested in info on reunion etc of crew members. Keywords:

Entry: 25857 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	FATHER.S PICTURES MANY 51-53 KOREA OF LSD-26 AND SHIPMATES .
GERARD (JERRY) PLUMB JR. wrote on May 28, 2002 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: maybe you would like to use some of these pictures for your site. it would have made him happy! you should here the stories he used to tell me. Keywords:

Entry: 25258 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	USS TORTUGA (LSD-26) DUTY TOUR
WILLIAM BLANTON wrote on May 5, 2002 City and State: MERCED CA Unit: U.S. NAVY Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Would be nice to hear from anyone else serving on board at that time. Keywords: Served on the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) from May 1953 to November 1956.

Entry: 24256 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	USS TORTUGA LSD-26
EDDIE MONTES wrote on March 26, 2002 City and State: LOS ANGELES CA Unit: USS TOTUGA LSD-26 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: We were an Amphibious Ship, who carried the Marines and their equipment, at different Korean Beaches, Army too. We were in the POW exchange at the end of the war. We went to Korea 3 times. Keywords: @nd invasion of Inchon February 1951. Remained overseas for a year, in the Far East Area, aboard the USS Tortuga LSD-26.

Entry: 22275 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	WONDERFUL JOB ON THE WEB PAGE
JOHN FINLEY wrote on January 13, 2002 City and State: SALEM OR Unit: A DIVISION Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: I was on the Tortuga from Nov. 1950 to Jan. l952 during the Korean war. Sure do appreciate the work the fellows have been doing on Assc. web and etc. The officers on down. Sure hated to miss the Seattle reunion but things happen! Maybe I'll make the next one?? Calm seas and smooth sailing to you all. John Keywords: Boat engineer on LCVP, and Captains gig Duty stations boiler room. EN/FN

Entry: 21883 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	LCU DIV-31
DON BROWN wrote on December 30, 2001 City and State: OLIVE BRANCH MS Unit: LCU-1451/LCU DIV-31 FLAG Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Questions about evacuation of North Vietnam (Indo China)1954 from Haiphong to Saigon Keywords: USS TORTUGA LSD-26 WAS MOTHER SHIP TO OUR DIVISION ALONG WITH THE USS WHETSTONE LSD-27 1953/1955

Entry: 20535 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	KOREA
TONY BRILLO wrote on November 11, 2001 City and State: GREENFIELD IN Unit: U.S. NAVY Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: I was on the commissioning crew in 1945 on the Tortuga. #l Boat Crew (engineer) A kid named Dyer was the Coxswain. I left the ship in 1946 in Korea. The USS Tortuga was stationed in N. China and all up and down the China coast before we went to Korea. Tony R Brillo Keywords:

Entry: 13620 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE SERVED ON USS TORTUA
WALTER E. (GENE) SWANSON wrote on December 14, 2000 City and State: BAKERSFIELD CA Unit: R DIVISION USS TORTUGA LSD-26 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Landed Small craft and troops February 8,1951, Inchon Harbor . Keywords:

Entry: 8655 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	TORTUGA INFORMATION AMPHIBIOUS FORCE
EARL J. STRAND wrote on May 13, 2000 City and State: SUPERIOR MT Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: I served on the Tortuga from the last part of 1949 and 1950. Would like to hear from people that served on it at that time. Thank You, Earl J Strand Keywords: USS Tortuga LSD 26

Entry: 7828 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	AUG. 1950 TO APR. 1954.
EDDIE MONTES wrote on April 5, 2000 City and State: LOS ANGELES CA Unit: USS TORTUGA LSD-26 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: USS TORTUGA LSD-26 Keywords:

Entry: 4758 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	CREW MEMBER, ET3
WILLARD (BILL) CARTER wrote on November 11, 1999 City and State: PHELAN CA Unit: USS TORTUGA, LSD26 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: I'm very pleased to find this site. I caught up with The Turtle in Inchon Harbor, Dec. of '51. A couple weeks after the second landing at Inchon. Chased her from Washington DC. Served aboard untill late March '53. I have some pictures from that time. Bow on shot of her in drydock at Hunter Point, during her overhaul. Some of the stuff we carried in the well deck from 'Frisco to San Diego. Etc. W.R. Carter, ET3 US Navy, 1946-1953 Keywords: "The Turtle" , Inchon Harbor

Entry: 3830 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	KUDOS
CHUCK WESTBROOK wrote on October 31, 1999 City and State: EVANSVILLE IN Unit: USS TORTUGA LSD-26 Service or Relationship: NAVY Comments: I would like to commend all the volunteers who have contributed thier time and expertise to make this great web site possible. Just checking in to see if the USS Tortuga LSD-26 and the USS Gonston Hall LSD-5 had been added to your list of Amphibious ships that played a vital role in the Korean conflict. Keep up the good work, and a 'Well Done" to all! Chuck Westbrook Keywords: This is an updated URL for the USS Tortuga LSD-26 http://members.tripod.com/turn2/

Entry: 3815 USS TORTUGA (LSD-26)	CREW MEMBER
VICTOR CASSANO wrote on October 31, 1999 City and State: Unit: U.S.S TORTUGA Service or Relationship: NAVY Comments: I helped take the USS Tortuga, LSD 26, out of mothballs in mid 1950 in San Diego. I am not surprised that there are no record of it. We were all sort of non enities at that time. I have a sort of history of the ship 1950-1951 that the exec made up for us. In it it gives all the details of the time I spent on it. Keywords:

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