Anyone HELP him out ..............

I ran across a blog today while searching for the date that I was on the Mitchell when we had a collision in the harbour @ Yokasuka, Japan. My memory is faded on the event and a friend even says that the collision was @ Pearl Harbor, but I know that it was in 1960 and we were on our way home after serving a tour in the Marine Corps in Iwakuni, Japan and bound for Treasure Island, San Francisco. Can yoiu help my feeble memory? I may even be talking about the wrong ship, as this was a troop carrier and I was one of the unlucky ones to be placed on it for the trip home.

 

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Another Mitchell story .......

  I received this email yesterday from Mr. Hunt. I was shocked when I saw his name, I served aboard her with a Hunt, only an H. W. Hunt from Texas. In doing some checking of dates, I think that was his Father, how neat is that? Those pictures were taken before I got on board, so it well could be him.

 Hello Mr. Dooley. I enjoyed reading about your time on the Mitchell, and after looking at your pictures, I believe my Dad is the seaman standing guard as an officer comes aboard the ship. His name was Gilbert Hunt, and he passed away a few years ago from Parkinsons.  
He is wearing the correct number of stripes, and has the same glance I saw a million times growing up. Dad joined the navy shortly after graduating from Lane Tech High School in Chicago after World War ll.  He told me he was having a very difficult time finding work because all the jobs were being given to veterans that had returned from the War, so he figured he'd join up and see the world, then try job hunting after his time of service was up. He said he was due to get out when "Harry" sent him a telegram "Suggesting" he stick around as Korea was starting up.  Dad never talked much about his time in service, but did mention that he felt horrible about seeing guys leaving ship one trip, only to pick them up later in terrible shape after going thru what must have been some sort of Hell. I am pretty sure the only ship he served on was the Mitchell, and I'm sure he stayed thru most if not all of the war.  He was a machinist mate in the engine room, and he did once tell me his ship had " 2 stacks", which he seemed proud of .  Your timeline seems to be just after Dad would have left, but it sures does look like him to me !!  By the way, if that is him, and if he is wearing a sidearm, I find it funny, because whenever he trained with a 45, he told me he couldn't hit **** , and he never owned a gun .  Thanks again for your stories and the site .