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Feb, 1962 Dockery

Hoisting the Flag at Bermuda, 1962.

Bermuda

This photo was made aboard the USS Hugh Purvis, in Feb, of 1962. We were leaving Bermuda, after a few days there. This is one of my few vintage color images to survive. I had to do a lot of photoshop work to restore it.

I do not know the guys name. We left Bermuda to go back to the easten atlantic and wait on John Glenn to make his first Project Mercury flight. The ship in the distance is the USS Brownson, DD 868.

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Jim Walker ET2 709, 840 13-Dec-2008 04:11
I dont know that guys name, but the ship inboard of you is the Glennon as I served on both ships and was leading ET on the Glennon at the time. You remember the RB50 tanker plane that blew up while we were tied up there.