USS Ponchatoula Shipmates Association

President
PF Hammond

Vice
President
Rodger
Smith

Secretary
Barry
Litchfield

Treasurer
Phil
Rehlander

Staff
Photographer
Barry Litchfield

Webmaster
Dave
Schneider

USS Ponchatoula Shipmates Association

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Photo Galleries

Pictures of our beautiful ship

Reunion pictures

San Francisco, informal gathering
Jeremiah O'Brien Cruise
Shipmates at PF's barbecue

1989 WestPac Unrep
Getting replenished by the Ponchatoula during WestPac 1989. High seas that day, you can see the LST-1184 Frederick County being slammed in one of the pictures.
LSD-42 Germantown pulls alongside in another phot.
LPD-6 Duluth also wandering around.
Check out the spray breaking over the flight deck of the Belleau Wood, 75 feet above the surface

Oilers in storage at Suisun Bay

Pictures from Richard (Rick) Simonson

Who donated these pictures? If it's you or you know who,
please let me know ( dave@USSPonchatoula.com ) so I can give proper credit and return the disk. It's a nice set of personal snap shots from 1956.
1956a Pictures
1956b Pictures

This is a great set of personal pictures from the mid 60's. Many of the pictures are of shipmates (the way we were). They have been submitted by Phil Kinnicutt. Many of these pictures were taken by Barry Litchfield who is also the official photographer for our shipmates association.
Phil's pictures from 1966/7

A slide show of pictures from the 60's. These pictures were taken by Barry Litchfield
Barry's slideshow from the mid 60's

A wonderful set of pictures from the 1970 cruise book. Shipmate Grant Wearne of Cincinnati scanned them and made them available to us.
1970 Cruise Book