The President Kennedy Escort
While this photo appears long...it is just an 8X10 print (4X5 negative) that has been expanded in scanning, and then cropped top and bottom. The three photo links below are to further section enlargements of the above for photo ID purposes. This photo doesn't divide well so blame me rather than the photographer who had a big enough job and did very well given the dark conditions. This is over twice as big as the Loring photograph.
Below is the support roster of 42 names, Special Orders T-438 & T-439:
Enlisted names in Blue and all officers have been identified.
Capt. Herman H. Williams & 1st Lt. Emerson W. Bowman
CMSGT: Thomas D. Sutton & Sam T. Webster
TSGT: Theodore J. Baden, Gilbert S. Cook, Thomas P. Elder, H. A. Hutchings, James A. Jackson, Raymond L. Myers, & James D. Sherrill.
SSGT: R. J. Abrams, Calvin W. Broadwater, Edward S. Brown, John L. Cheney, John E. Cobb, James S. Cobban, Kenneth R. Czarnecki, Eugene W. Doss, Robert R. Dunn, Reynold S. Jernigan, Richard W. Johnson, Robert S. Leary, Edwin E. Mercer, James R. Page, John Pochynok, & Jesse E. Worley.
A/1C: John S. Bybee, Robert W. Curtis, Ronald E. Gaffney, Richard M. Heath, Agers L. Horton, Billy E. Huggins, Melvin E. Jaskowski, Richard J. Kee, James F. Mathis, & James M. Shaffer.
A/2C: Robert L. Angell, Gilbert J. Holtzman, Gordon D. Matthews, Donald E. Vaughn, & Harry S. Volpe.
Original photo scan comes to us from Capt. Herman H. Williams...and he did a real good job. 48 IDs were required altogether, with only 24 still unknown...half way. I have photos of three of those, Robert Curtis, Jesse Worley, & Richard Abrams...and I still can't make the call. GCW
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