I've attached a few photos from my days on the Concord. Feel free to use these as you'd like.
I have more but I'll have to get them scanned.
Scan 49: Concord going through the Suez Canal.
I believe this was in the early days of the 80-81 cruise. I had Master-at-Arms duty during the transit of the canal,
and had to keep track of the Egyptian laborers on board to keep them from selling dope to the crew. I transferred to
shore duty around the middle of that cruise.
Scan 26: This photo
is also in the 79-80 cruise book. This is a shot of the members of the ET shop on the port bridge wing. Left to
right is: ET3 Duane Stokes, ET3 Don Crawford, ETSN John Rodgers, ET3 Larry Bitterling, ET1 Ed Hlusko, and ET2 Tom Heilmann.
Scan 23: View of Gibraltar from the top of the rock. We pulled in there during the 79-80 cruise
- same cruise as the disbursing heist & fire in Palma.
Scan 10: A shot of myself as an ET2
in the Concord's transmitter room around Christmas 1979. I had just opened a care package from home.
Scan 8: A photo of me after the completion of the marathon run in Athens. The only person that actually
completed the run was Captain Armstrong. I bailed out after 11 miles. November 21st, 1979.
Best Regards,
Duane Stokes
USS Concord - ET2
October 1977 to January 1981.
