Posted by Major Mark Nelson on August 24, 2011, 4:29 pm
My father Willard Nelson was a S2c and AGC. I am always searching for photos. I saw the AGC photo for the William Harper and noticed a sailor that looks exactly like my father. Is there anyone who can tell me who the sailor is in the middle far right at the edge of the photo.
V/r
MAJ Mark Nelson
Re: SS William Harper
Posted by Ron Carlson on August 30, 2011, 10:46 am, in reply to "SS William Harper"
Dear Major Nelson,
Short answer, probably not, I am sorry to say.
Longer answer: I took over this website as webmaster in June 2007 from the original webmaster and founder of this site, Tom Bowerman, who is now deceased. At the time I received from Tom only the electronic files that made up the site. I received nothing in the way of original, hard-copy documents or photographs. So if Tom Bowerman ever had in hand the original photograph, I do not have it.
It is possible that the original photograph may have included, on the back, a list of the names of the men pictured. Or, as is so unfortunately typical of old photographs, nobody though to record the names at the time. Whatever the case, I fear that the names are lost to history, at least insofar as the original photograph is concerned.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website www.armed-guard.com