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Follow the links below to find Honor Pages, biographies, pictures and names of the men of the Navy Armed Guard and the merchant marine.

Honor pages, biographies and names

• Honor pages
• Armed Guard biographies
• Armed Guard Veterans Association members (no longer up-to-date)

Photographs:

Crew photographs

• Crew of SS ALCOA POLARIS, 6 November 1944
• Crew of SS BRANDER MATTHEWS
• Crew of MV CAPE MATAPAN; contributed by Rick Banks
• Crew of SS COLINA, Sydney, Australia, 1944; contributed by John Reshoft
• Crew of SS J MAURICE THOMPSON
• Crew of SS JOHN G BRADY; contributed by Rick Banks
• Crew of SS JOSHUA SENEY
• Crew of SS WAHOO SWAMP
• Crew of SS WILLIAM D BOYCE
• Crew of SS WILLIAM HARPER, May 1944

Individuals

• Walt Anderson, signalman on SS SEAMAN A KNAPP
• George D. Babcock
• Henry Billitz
• Richard Brooks and George E. Glover, Casablanca, 1942
• Charles Brown, while serving aboard SS CORNELIUS HARNETT
• Wilbur G. Connett, merchant mariner
• "Sparks" Covington, RM1/C
• Willard Cox
• Guido DeAngelis
• Roger L. di Benedict, Armed Guard
• Robert Thomas Herrington
• Frederick Francis Holcomb, World War I Armed Guard
• Clifford R. Jenkins, Jr., after a course at the Cooks and Bakers School at the U.S. Maritime Training Base, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY, Clifford Jenkins, became a baker aboard SS PATRICK HENRY, the first Liberty Ship launched.
• John W. Jeppson, Vernon "Rusty" Spicher and Ernest Walker, San Francisco, 1945
• William I. Joyce; portrait by his daughter, Patty Joyce
• Norman Mathis
• Lt Commander Harold J. McCormick
• Philip George Metcalf
• Joe Nolen, survivor of sinking of SS BENJAMIN SMITH
• Grover Redding, LT Hirsch Nathan Schwartz aboard SS PEROTE
• Euzema Smith, survivor of sinking of SS BUSHRANGER
• Edward Francis Sullivan
• John F. Sullivan
• John Harry Troutman, World War I Armed Guard
• Vernon Vawter
• Richard Hobson Williams

People Pictures

• Individual photographs, 22 pages, wartime and post-war, alphabetically by last name, plus names of ships on which the individual served
• Individual photographs, 59 pages, wartime and post-war
• Group photographs, page 1
• Group photographs, page 2
• Group photographs, page 3
• Group photographs, page 4
• Group photographs, page 5
• Group photographs, page 6
• Group photographs, page 7
• Group photographs, page 8
• Group photographs, page 9
• Group photographs, page 10
• Group photographs, page 11
• Group photographs, page 12
• Bainbridge graduating class, November 15, 1944; from family of Stanley Yarznbowicz
• Gunners Mate Class, Newport, RI, October 9, 1943

Armed Guard School, Camp Shelton, Virginia

• Pictures and names of Armed Guard personnel, 10 pages
• Pictures and names of Armed Guard personnel, 30 pages
• Armed Guard personnel, names only, 12 pages

Contributed photographic collections

• Pictures contributed by Seymour Dalkoff
• Pictures contributed by Jim Hamlin
• Pictures contributed by Dave Martin
• Pictures contributed by Detmer G. McKinley
• Pictures contributed by George Milk
• Pictures contributed by John H. Woffinden

Other photographs

• Armed Guard mess on unknown merchant ship
• Pictures of Armed Guard sailors and crews, five pages
• Pictures of people and ships
• Pictures of people, ships and things
• Pictures of people, ships and things
• Pictures of people, ships and things
• Unknown Armed Guard sailor at 5-inch gun
• Members of a "Checkerboard"crew that brought a Libertys hip from the U.S. to England, with their mascot, "Booker" (left to right, R. C. Woods, A. M. Mulzac, W. B. Shepard, and S. O'Neil)
• Life in the Transport Hold, by Nathan Glick