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This isn't exactly a mystery picture.  That's Vern Moberly, deceased, of Laramie, Wyoming, on the far right in the dark jacket.  The picture was provided in July, 2003, by his son, Jim.  But who are the rest of the men?  Any ideas?

July 28, 2003

I received the following information just the other day:

HI BILL, BINGO   I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SEND A LIST OF SOME OF THE CREWMATES
IN THAT PICTURE. THEY ARE TOP TO BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT:  

1 PETERS              
2 <Rollin Nordeen>
3   Brink, ETM 3rd class
4   <Gilbert Brittain>
5   <William Anders>
6  BERNARD
7  MORRISON
8  FERGUSON

BOTTOM ROW:

9  MATTHEWS
10 BUCKLEY
11 LOZANO
12 CARUSO
13 ENSIGN GOLDSTEIN
14 MEADE
15 MCKENNA 
16  MAC DONNELL
17 MOBERLY
18 KNEELING MAN  Circo, yeoman 3rd class
19 MAN WITH 5" POWDER CANISTER: KERNS

REGARDS, TOM MCKENNA

And here's a note I received on August 31, 2003:

I just ran across your Santa Fe website, and I can help with the identification of a couple of men.  I was on the Santa Fe late in the war 1945-46.  I was a radar technician, 2nd class.  The "Gunnery Division Mystery Photo" was actually taken in l945.  There are four radar tech gang members on the top row.  Second from left is Rollin Nordeen.  I can't recall the name of the third from left, but he was a tech.  Fourth from left is Gilbert Brittain, fifth from left is myself.  It brought back a few memories of 58 years ago.  

With a follow-up later in the day:

I have just come across the exact photo in my almost forgotten files.  I can now fill in:  #3-Brink, ETM 3rd class,  #18-Circo, yeoman 3rd class.

William S. Anders

So I suppose this is no longer a "mystery picture."

I received this note on November 16, 2006:  I just saw your web site of the Santa Fe and spotted my dad in one of your mystery pictures.  He is in the gunnery division, in the bottom row  -- 11, Lozano.  His full name is Edmond Lozano, and he died  in 1998.  I am his daughter Lydia Lozano Gonzalez.  Thank you
 

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