The
Following photographs were donated from the personal
collection of
Bernard Schenck,LTJG
For
larger display, click on the picture. |
Replenishment
at sea
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_077.JPG")
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, approaching USS
Virgo (KA-20) for replenishment
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_080.JPG")
USS Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, approaching USS
Virgo (KA-20) for replenishment
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_079.JPG")
USS
Preston (DD-795) South Pacific, approaching USS Virgo
(KA-20) for replenishment
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_081.JPG")
USS
Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, alongside USS Virgo
(KA-20) with helos available for rescue
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_082.JPG")
USS
Rochester (CA-124) South Pacific, hi-line transfer with
USS Virgo (KA-20)
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_083.JPG")
USS Virgo (KA-20) approaching fleet oiler
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_084.JPG")
USS
Virgo (KA-20) approaching fleet oiler
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_085.JPG")
USS
Virgo (KA-20) approaching fleet oiler
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_086.JPG")
USS Virgo (KA-20) approaching fleet oiler
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_087.JPG")
USS
Virgo (KA-20) hi-line transfer with fleet oiler
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_088.JPG")
Pickup
of bear cub from
Honolulu
zoo for delivery to
Sydney
,
Australia
zoo
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_089.JPG")
Bear cub on board
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_090.JPG")
CWO
Electrician and CWO Deluca playing with cub on deck
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_091.JPG")
CWO Electrician and CWO Deluca playing with unhappy cub
on deck
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_092.JPG")
Cub
giving opinion of the Virgo’s cargo handlers
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_093.JPG")
LCDR Hopgood, Executive Officer and representative of
Honolulu
zoo
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_094.JPG")
LCDR
Hopgood and CWO Deluca on deck with cub
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_095.JPG")
Ford
Island, Pearl Harbor
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Initiation
into Shellback Society, King Neptune
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Royal Family
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Initiation
into Shellback Society, Royal Baby
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Paying homage to the Royal Baby
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Royal Doctor “practicing” Navy medicine
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_096.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_097.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_098.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society, Ensign Schenck being
scalped
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_099.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society, Ensign Schenck (R),
Communications Officer Ensign Callahan (L)
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/01_04_Slides_100.JPG")
Ensign
Schenck getting scalped by the Royal Barber
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_003.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society, crew in crows nest
looking for icebergs, flying the Jolly Roger
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_006.JPG")
Initiation into Shellback Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society
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Initiation
into Shellback Society, LTjg Tannone, looking for
icebergs
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Ensign Schenck,
during initiation into Shellback Society
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LTjg Elliot Faye, Engineering Officer, initiation into
Shellback Society
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Anxiously awaiting initiation into Shellback
Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society
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LTjg Tannone, initiation into Shellback Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society, dunking tank
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CIC officer, initiation into Shellback Society
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Ensign
Schenck, sans hair after initiation into
Shellback Society
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Pollywogs
prior to
initiation into Shellback Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society, stocks
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Initiation
into Shellback Society
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Initiation into Shellback Society, dunking tank
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Initiation into Shellback Society
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Coastal
cliffs, approaching
Sydney
harbor
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_017.JPG")
Approaching
Sydney
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Sydney
harbor bridge
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Sydney
harbor bridge
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_002.JPG")
USS Virgo (KA-20) in
Sydney
harbor
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_012.JPG")
Ens Schenck ready for
shore leave in
Sydney
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Ens
Schenck, beret covering scalping,
Sydney
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Ensign
Schenck, Sydney
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Ens Callahan, CWO Electrician, Chief Electrician,
LTjg Tannone
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Library,
Sydney
,
New South Wales
(Aust)
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Park in
Sydney
,
Australia
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Solomon
Islands
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_007.JPG")
Approaching
MS Milos, aground on reef at
Vanikolo Island,
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_008.JPG")
MS Milos, aground on reef at
Vanikolo Island,
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_010.JPG")
MS Milos, aground on reef at
Vanikolo Island,
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_009.JPG")
MS Milos, aground on reef at
Vanikolo Island,
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_011.JPG")
MS Milos, aground on reef at
Vanikolo Island,
Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz
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Approaches to
Hong Kong
harbor
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Hong Kong
harbor
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_013.JPG")
Hong
Kong
harbor
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Hong
Kong
harbor
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Floating restaurant,
Hong Kong
harbor
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Repulse
Bay
from Correspondent’s Club, Hong Kong
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Floating
village,
Repulse
Bay
,
Hong Kong
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Floating
village,
Repulse
Bay
,
Hong Kong
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Looking down from heights,
Hong Kong
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British
Hong Kong
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Hong
Kong
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Floating
village,
Repulse
Bay
,
Hong Kong
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British
Hong Kong
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Hong
Kong
Harbor
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Teeming
urban sprawl,
Hong Kong
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Tiger Balm Gardens
Hong Kong
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Tiger
Balm Gardens
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Crew member on shore leave,
Hong Kong
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Deck crew enlistee,
Hong Kong
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Kowloon
,
Hong Kong
, on the border with Mao’s china
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Mao’s political base
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Village,
Kowloon
(New Territories)
Hong Kong
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Rice
farmers,
Kowloon
,
Hong Kong
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Village,
Kowloon
(New Territories)
Hong Kong
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Village in Kowloon Hong Kong
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Aerobic
exercise, Formosa (Taiwan)
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Water traffic,
Kao-Hsiung,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Street scene,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Street scene,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Entrepreneur,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Entrepreneur,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Street children,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Small children,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Children on beach,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Street
scene,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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Unloading
ammunition cargo,
Kao-Hsiung
,
Formosa
(
Taiwan
)
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_015.JPG")
Natives alongside
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USS
Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) approaching USS Virgo
(KA-20)
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USS
Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) approaching USS Virgo
(KA-20)
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USS
Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) approaching USS Virgo
(KA-20)
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) alongside USS Virgo
(KA-20)
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Hi-line transfer to USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)
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USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) alongside USS Virgo
(KA-20)
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_004.JPG")
Cargo
on deck for replenishment
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_005.JPG")
Finished replenishment with carrier, LTjg Robert Garver
left foreground
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_014.JPG")
Tramp
steamer, south west Pacific
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Ens
Schenck,
Subic Bay
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Tokyo
,
Japan
, Emperor’s Palace lake
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Urban bustle, post war reconstructed Tokyo Japan
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Parliament
Building
Tokyo Japan
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Post
war boom, reconstructed Tokyo Japan
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Ensign
Schenck,
Guam
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Ensign
Schenck,
Guam
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USS Virgo (KA-20) loading cargo, Port Chicago, CA
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![](http://www.uss-virgo.com/images/schenck/05_09_Slides_001.JPG")
USS Virgo (KA-20) in dry dock,
Astoria, OR
being decommissioned 1958
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