 IF YOU KNOW OF A DECEASED SHIPMATE WHO SERVED AT NSGA BREMERHAVEN, PLEASE CONTACT ME. SEND ME NAME, RATE/RANK (IN B'HVN), YEARS IN B'HVN, DATE OF DEATH. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT A SHORT REMEMBRANCE FOR A SHIPMATE, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME. · THANKS, KARL SPECIAL THANKS TO CTT2 ED MARCINIAK FOR SUPPLYING INFORMATION FOR MANY OF THE SHIPMATES LISTED. TO VIEW REMEMBRANCE LISTING CLICK ON |
The Ship I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails in the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "there she goes!" Gone Where? Gone from my sight… that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There she goes!" there are other eyes watching her coming and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There she comes!" Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
NEXT TO DECEASED'S NAME.Deceased Shipmates NSGA Bremerhaven, GermanyFor information on the Presidential Memorial Certificate for honorably discharged deceased veterans, please go here. |
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"I served with Al Jobkar from 66-68. Although Alan was in the Navy and I was in the Marines, we became good friends and hung out down on the 'square' most weekends. After we both got out in the Spring of 68, we continued to get together, as he was from McDonald, PA and I was from McKeesport, PA., and they are not too far apart. I stayed at his house one weekend, several weeks before he was killed, and met his brothers and parents. Back in those days, we were still trying to adjust to being back in civilian life, and it was not easy. I was lucky, he was not." - Jim McClelland, Co F, 66-68
"Charlie "Dry Cell" Heiner served in Bremerhaven 1956-1957, died 13 December 1957. He was buried in the Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a good friend of Robert D'Imperio, James Wright, Robert Martin, Bob Haggerty, Copenhaver, myself and many others. Bob Haggerty was his roommate, arriving from Kami Seya and Charlie from Midway in late 1956. He was on a six-month TAD stint to the Todendorf/Kiel area from Bremerhaven at the time of his death. Charlie and a couple of shipmates were on liberty in Kiel and were drowned in one of the canals on a return trip to base after dark. The driver of the vehicle drove off the road into the canal. He did not see the draw bridge had swung away to open the canal until it was too late to stop.
"I just received the following from Jim Wright. Billy Joe was a close friend while we served together at Bremerhaven in '56-'57. Several members of Section Charlie from that era, including Jerry Argo, Bob Martin, Jack Bair, Bob Tarr, and Jim Wright are planning a mini reunion in mid July. That is how we located Billy Joe's address and learned of his recent passing." -
Bob D'Imperio (CTSN 1956-57)