Honoring USS Tinosa SS 283 - Crew 30 61st Squadron

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USS Tinosa SS-283

Offical Photograph: US Naval Drydocks Hunter's Point San Francisco, CA
Courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer, webmaster of Subvetpaul.com/


USS Tinosa SS 283 Crew Also attending L to R: Louise and Robert Weiler, LG; Jayne & Ralph Gervias, CFC Gunner. The USS Tinosa is the submarine that picked up Crew 30 after they had to bail out of "City of Roswell" on 1 June 1945.


Note; Numbers run starting at the back row and work forward Source: "The Tinosa Blatt Dec 1990 - Vol No. XI Issue No. 3
1 - Cliff Paquette 2 - Germaine Paquette 3 - Clyde Gallardy 4 - Marie Gallardy 5 - Donna St. Amant 6 - Wil St. Amant 7 - Ellie Wittmer 8 - Paul Wittmer 9 - Dave Clutterham 10 - Dorris Lesh 11 - Nonnie Clutterham 12 - Rev George Corson 13 - Clyde Lesh 14 - Helen Searless 15 - Russ Groves 16 - Hugh Cooksey 17 - Robert Salan	18 - Dolly Salan 19 - Phyllis Klag 20 - Donald Klag 21 - Lois Corson 22 - Gerald Thaine 23 - Sissie Grant 24 - Lorranie Wendling 25 - Betty Gering* 26 - Bob Grant 27 - Gil Wendling 28 - Dayton Searless 29 - Eleanor Dixon 30 - Dick Dixon 31 - Jerry Burke 32 - Anne Burke 33 - Felix Petrowski 34 - Mary Petrowski	35 - Polly Weeks 36 - Eleanor West* 37 - Clyde Weeks 38 - Jack Anderson 39 - Bettie Anderson 40 - Corky Burns 41 - Milt Brown 42 - Dale Scott 43 - Louise Weiler 44 - Robert Weiler (P30) 45 - Jayne Gervias 46 - Ralph Gervias (P30) 47 - Gene Cooksey 48 - Alice Brown 49 - Leo Bonner 50 - Doloris Burns 51 - Donna Scott

James Wyckoff (l) & Robert Weiler (r)

These b/w photos appeared in an issue of The Tinosa Blatt Newsletter
(above and below)

Robert Weiler, (L); Jack Polis, (C); James Wyckoff (R)
Jack Polis, USS Tinosa, was the one who received the transmission from the B-29 search plane (P-45) that they had picked up Crew 30's distress signal broadcasted by the crew's emergency radio transmitter called the "gibson girl".

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