Photograph and Story by ME1 Marion G. Hazzard

I served years 1952 to 1956 onboard the USS Telfair 210. I am 70 years of age, in good health, own a sheetmetal and airconditioning business, participate in community affairs, love my church, a Mason and Shriner.

With help, I built the 2 ventilator heads atop of the vent stacks to the hold protruding from well deck at bulk head of the forecastle. (Showing in picture.)

I drafted the plan to convert our gallery from oil power to electricity. We had the equipment bases made aboard a tender but installed in it ourselves. The Capt. informed us that we saved the government $48,000.00 by doing it ourselves, noted in the records, I hope. I and others built Capt. Johansen a Mustang Officer, a stainless steel grill or namely habachi. There is quite a story about this one.

I located one crew member who served with me, LTJG Will Fick who is on the crew list. We talked and he is in my hometown, High Point, NC. Since then there are conflicting reports of his being deceased. Here is hoping that I can locate the crew I served with in R-Division or any other Division aboard the USS Telfair before that last liberty boat shoves off and never returns.

Please add my name to the crew list for the next reunion.

Marion G. Hazzard ME1 (E-mail address - jhazzard@northstate.net)

Thanks for this great piece of historical information Marion.
Now we want to hear about the habachi!