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- Standing by microphone: Capt. Albert Harold Rooks. Standing in front of group, saluting: Capt. Jesse Oldendorf. First row, left to right: Cmdr. Homer Louis Grosskopf, Cmdr. (MC) William A. Epstein, unknown, unknown, unknown, Cmdr. Arthur Laurence Maher, Lt. Cmdr. Richard Hermus Gingras, unknown. Second row, left to right: Unknown, unknown, unknown, Lt. Thomas Benjamin Payne, Lt. Ernest Debbes Hodge, Lt. Robert Burwell Fulton, Lt. John Dietrick Lamade, unknown, unknown. Third row, left to right: Unknown, unknown, Lt. Joseph Francis Dalton, unknown, Lt. Harold Sherwin Hamlin, Jr., unknown, unknown, unknown, Lt. (j.g.) Francis Brooks Weiler, Lt. (j.g.) Kenneth Leon Kollmyer. Fourth row, left to right: Unknown, Ensign Fred Ferguson Mallory, Ensign John Marshall Hamill, unknown, Ensign John Blount Nelson, Ensign Alva Freeman Nethken, Ensign Charles Donovan Smith II, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown. Fifth row, far left: 2nd Lt. Frank E. Gallagher. Standing at rear of group in khaki: Warrant Officer Louis E. Biechlin.
- Inscription on back: "Here's where the new command changes from Captain Oldendorf to Capt Rooks"
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