Posted by sharon Lawrence on January 20, 2013, 4:59 pm
There's a crew photograph from the James T. Parker posted on your site. My Dad, Lawrence Slepicka, was on that ship from December 10, 1942 to August 5, 1943 when he was transferred to another ship. So I'd LOVE to know the date of that photograph and who posted it. The version that's posted is too small for me to pick out individual faces but I'd love to see a good scan of the original if it's from this time period.
I took over management of the Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website in the summer of 2007, when the founder and original webmaster, Tom Bowerman of Anniston, Alabama, became too ill to continue. Mr. Bowerman died later that same year.
At the time I took over the site, I received only the electronic files that make up the site. I obtained nothing in the way of original photographs or documents, nor any information on the origin of anything on the site. Consequently I have no information about the source of the photograph nor its date, nor do I have the original from which to produce a scan.
Sorry not to be able to help.
Ron Carlson, Webmaster Armed Guard / Merchant Marine website www.armed-guard.com