More From John Gidusko

Looking back at the ship as we head for liberty in Luanda, Angola. JAN 24,1967

Heading home in very rough seas. Everyone will remember this. FEB 26, 1967

Crew painting the foremast. JAN 13, 1967

LCDR Armstrong, XO, soaking up the rays. DEC 15, 1966

LCDR Dave Lewis on the bridge. DEC 11, 1966

LT Pierce, Comm Officer, doing some reading and soaking up sun. DEC 15, 1966

LT Jim O'Connor sunbathing. DEC 15, 1966

Ensign Dave Lucas sucking up the beer in Luanda, Angola. JAN 23,1967

A nearby Russian ship causes the collision alarm to go off and quite a commotion. The binoculars are broken out and Virgil Brownfield observes. JAN 29, 1967

Petty Officer Cocnavitch on the flying bridge doing some reading. DEC 11, 1966

Liberty boat heads in to Luanda, Angola. Boatswine mate Anthony Quintaro. JAN 24, 1967

Captain McGonagle, -- ashore on liberty in Dakar, Senegal -- visits a native village of artisan's there. He took a Polaroid picture while there and showed it to his subjects. A kid grabbed it and took it all around the village and showed it to everyone there. I didn't think the C.O. was ever going to get his picture back! JUNE 17, 1966

Note: These are from some 8mm videos John Gidusko took. He later converted them to VCR video tape and still later 'captured' them digitally using 'snappy'. He cut the size down to 200 pixels horizontal to keep the resolution good. I think they came out very good. Ed