Asa Wayne Arrington photograph collection, 1925-1999

Image features sailors, gathered around Sanford Laidman, on the deck of the U.S.S. Currier (DE-700). Written on the back of the photograph is “Sanford Laidman receiving Presidential Unit Station from his 1st ship. Picture taken on DE 700."

Front Row: John Baker, Bob Comer, Bill D. White; Second Row: Avery Harwell, Eugene Watson, Ken Steele, Max Johnson, William Wallace, Sanford Laidman, Wendell Salisbury, Edward Martin, Robert Frazier, Delmar Halblaub, Jim Schaller, Frank Moore, Ken Shaner; Third Row: Arnold Gregory, Bob Burcham, Reedie Clark, George Moore, Bill G. White, Ray Stirsman, Julian Christie, Bernie Schneider, Robert Zimmerly, Paul Kerscher, David Lockhart, C.J. Grant, Morris Rae, Roy Williams, Sammy Pike; Fourth Row: Charles Rector, Eugene Smith, John Keitz, Jim Conroy, Richard Henkel, Jim Graham, Albert DeWinne, Noel Hudgens, Charles Newell, Fred Vollbrecht, Cecil Medford, Eddie Melton, James Metcalf, Lawrence Puccetti, Travis Johnson, Don Smith, Carl Caffarel, John Willenmyer; Fifth Row: Thomas Henderson, Don Quimby, Jesse Mason, Chester Fast, Walter Moore, Oliver Zimmerly, George Hinnah, Travis Norris, Melvin Whitley, John Springer, Roger Wisecup.

Front Row: John Baker, Wayne Arrington, William Wallace, James Monroe Dale; Back Row: Stan Peach, William J. Boczany, Walter Tapitza, Philip Tomkinson. Unidentified newspaper article attached to back, reads: “Four Navy Veterans Are Awarded Meals.” Issuance of four more World war (sec) II victory medals to Magic Valley veterans was announced Saturday by cQM Edgar F. Palmer, recruiter in charge of the Twin Falls navy station. Receiving these medals were Dwight John William Burgener Jerome, Asa Wayne Arrington, route 3, Twin Falls; Donald Clifton Rush, route 2, Buhl; and Frederick Russell Osgood, Hansen.

Front Row: Stanley W. Peach, Morris B. Rae, Sanford Laidman, Charles E. Hendrix, James Monroe Dale, Wayne Arrington; Middle Row: Alfred W. Johnson, William J. Boczany, Thomas Henderson, Walter Tapitza, Gerald D. Kasper, ?; Back Row: Joseph W. Homovec, George L. Thurlow, John Barnhardt, Richard Henkel.

Richard Johnson, Donald Call, Gerald Rogers, Charles Hendrix, George Thurlow, Richard (Illegible), John Barnhardt, Steiens?, Rusty Nichils?, Dale Sparrow.

Front Row: John Doyle, Stanley Peach, Morris Rae; Back Row: Richard Henkel, Vinson Criswell, John Keitz, Sanford Laidman, William Drohan, Tom Henderson, and Alfred Johnson.