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The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Ajax (AR 6). Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on the name to send an email to the respective sailor. Would you like to have such a crew list on your website?
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There are 726 crew members registered for the USS Ajax (AR 6).
Select the period (starting by the reporting year): precomm – 1950 | 1951 – 1955 | 1956 – 1961 | 1962 – 1964 | 1965 – 1966 | 1967 – 1968 | 1969 – 1970 | 1971 – 1972 | 1973 – 1975 | 1976 – 1977 | 1978 – 1979 | 1980 – 1981 | 1982 – 1983 | 1984 | 1985 – now
Name | Rank/Rate | Period | Division | Remarks/Photo |
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Teliczan, Tom | DP3 (Final) | 1967 – 1970 | 1st, GM - 2nd DP | Great cruise, met a lot of good guys, Sasebo was beautiful! |
Middeke, Gary | DM2 | 1967 – 1969 | R-5 | |
Ziemer, Larry | em3 | Jan 1967 – Jan 1969 | electricial | |
Cole, Robert "bob" | SF 1 | Jan 10, 1967 – Jun 15, 1969 | R-1, Pipe and Weld Shop | Great ship, great crew, hard work but worth it all. |
White, Tom | PN1 | Jan 15, 1967 – Jan 31, 1970 | SHIP'S OFFICE | I had a great three years on board . I worked in the ships office and did the paper work for a lot of guys who reenlisted or got married in Sasebo. Also work for the greatest boss, PNCM Harold Scott. I retired in 1976 as a PNC. |
Sutherland, Kent | FTG-2 | Feb 25, 1967 – May 25, 1968 | Gunnary Repair | Great Ship, Crew and duty....Sasebo was a sailors dream...made a bunch of friends too. |
Short, Jim | E5 SFP | Apr 1, 1967 – Jun 1, 1969 | R1 | All the boys in the Shipfitter Shop, best fitters in the fleet. Lindell, Johnson, broussard, Bonczek, Smith, Dille, |
Bahneman, Dennis | MM2 | May 22, 1967 – Feb 7, 1971 | 0SR | |
Sushka, Bob | DM2 E5 | Jun 1967 – Dec 30, 1969 | R5 | Lasting memories of LT. Camander McBride |
Ruble, Stephen Barney | AR6 | Jun 1967 – Jan 1969 | deck | yo joe,clemmon, 2nd div deck force |
Sushka, Bob | DM2 | Jun 1967 – Dec 1969 | Repair 5 | looking for R-5 Div personnel |
Thompson, John (Tom) | MM 3rd class | Jun 1967 – Feb 1969 | MP Division | Hard work/ good times good people First assigned to the forward engine room then Evaps |
Massimo, James (Jim) | EM3 | Jun 1967 – Sep 1969 | R-3 | Lasting memories |
Sushka, Bob | DM5 | Jun 10, 1967 – Dec 28, 1969 | R5 | WHERE IS STUMPY FROM MADISON, WI. PETE PETERSON IS NOW IN ANN ARBOR, MI. |
Peterson, Pete | LI-3 | Jun 21, 1967 – Oct 20, 1969 | R-5 | A treasured time. I remember: PH's Suckerman, Arcinega, Overbeck, Green & Orsak, LI's Cornett, Hershey & Childers, Lt. Martin, Lt. Danahy, Sushka, McKurtis, McCreary, Lynn, Kieffer, Stein, Lozier, Kohler, Falhaber, Jenkins & more. |
Wigg, Les / Twiggy | MM3 | Jul 1967 – Feb 1969 | MP Foreward Engine Room | Served my time in the Forward Engine Room. Was Main Control Throttleman. Stood MM of the Watch.I remember the Typhoon in early 1968. |
Tughan, Lawrence N. "tuffy" | MR3 | Aug 1967 – Apr 1969 | Ships company - Machine shop | Looking back, It was the best time I ever had. |
Maitland, Norman (Skip) | EN3 | Aug 1967 – Aug 1969 | R2 Engine Shop | Great Times. Then went on to PBR River Division 593 Viet Nam . |
Menking, Ricky | RM 2 | Aug 7, 1967 – Dec 15, 1969 | COMSERVGRUP THREE staff | I served as a radioman on the admiral's staff and truly enjoyed my time aboard the USS Ajax. I got an early out for Christmas. Looking for two buddies, Bob Kahland RM2 and Bill Besfer RM3. |
Schulz, Dwight | MR3 | Aug 23, 1967 – Jan 5, 1970 | Worked in the machine shop, finished up working in the tool room. | |
Lengyel, Jim (Jj) | ML2 | Sep 1967 – Oct 1969 | R2 REpair | Came onboard as Chief Denbow was leaving & stayed 2 yr until Chief Macguire came onboard. Returned to Dearborn MI for 2 yr of (forced) Reserve Meetings. Retired 35 yr Ford Motor Engineer. Presently living Grosse Ile (island in Detroit River). Mata Ne |
Funk, John | YN3 | Sep 1967 – Sep 1968 | Engineering Yeoman | |
Cross, Jeff | MM2 | Sep 1967 – May 1969 | OSR | Underway stood aft engine room watch. Remember Swordfish SSN-579 visit May of 68, Typhoon off Kaohsiung, Taiwan & dry dock to repair hull damage, Hong Kong, Vung Tau, Viet Nam. Great ship, loved my SE Asia Tour. |
Crabtree, Richard | RM3 | Sep 1967 – Dec 1969 | R4 - Teledype/Crypto Repair Shop | |
Statkiewicz, Pete | SA - SH2 | Oct 1967 – Jun 1970 | S-3 | Great crew, wonderful times and best duty in my 22 yr career. Fun in Sasebo running the alleys & 'cho's. |
Pepper, Larry | SK2 | Oct 1967 – Oct 1970 | S-1 | Good times in Sasebo with Parsons, Bagnell, Beattie and O'Neal. Would love to hear from you guys. |
Wertz, Jack | RM3 | Oct 1, 1967 – Nov 1, 1969 | Communications | |
Rousseau, Ronald ("Froggie" | HT2 | Nov 1967 – Dec 1971 | R-1 Carpenter Shop | My years on the Benjo Maru were some of the best of my life. Great ship, great friends, great liberty. We worked hard and played harder. Been in touch with Fatkin, Bubar, Canavan, Harrison etc. Bob Cascio, where are u? |
Wright, Allen | MM1 | Nov 3, 1967 – Oct 5, 1973 | R-2 / R-5 | I don't think I can espress the wonderful times and the great shipmates that I served with in words. She was the classest Repair Facility of the 7th fleet. I invite any and all shipmates to respond as you will. |
Wright, Allen | MM1 | Nov 3, 1967 – Oct 1973 | R-2 (OSR) Repair Office as the ARRS | The crew of the Ajax both ships company and the repair department were the most professional ship mates I ever served with in my 20 year career. Sasebo never got over the Ajax changing her homeport to San Diego. India 8 belonged to us. Sase |
Powell, James ( Jay Jay ) | BM3 | Nov 17, 1967 – Nov 15, 1969 | Deck | I remember Sasebo and Subic Bay. I remember Leon Gregory in th laundry. James Benjamin, John Becham, Vincent Knight dp3 and dental tech Jenkins. |
White, Thomas | BT3 | Nov 28, 1967 – Nov 5, 1969 | Aft engone room | Had a great ex[erience and learned lot. Made a lot of friends. |
Kujawa, Dick | DPSN-DP2 | Dec 15, 1967 – Sep 15, 1970 | S1 | Ajax was great duty and let to a 21 year career. |
Shultz, David | MRFA | Dec 24, 1967 – Nov 19, 1969 | UPPER/LOWER MACHINE SHOP | I WOULD NOT TRADE MY MILITARY EXPERIENCES FOR ANYTHING. |
Foster, Max | CWO | Dec 25, 1967 – Oct 15, 1970 | R4 | |
Hunt, Gary | E-3 | Dec 25, 1967 – Nov 20, 1969 | Chief of Staff | |
Miller, David | MM3 | 1968 – 1969 | R-5 | Worked in Repair Office. Stood watch in the engine room also repaired valves and pumps. Worked under Falhaber MM1. |
Burkhardt, Barry | DC2 | 1968 – 1970 | Damage Control | |
Bahneman, Dennis | MM2 | 1968 – 1970 | OSR | Best Experience of my life. Geat duty with great friends |
Dorsey, Mel | SH2 | 1968 – 1971 | S3 | Came on board an SA and left as P02. Worked hard and played harder. Lots of good times and fond memorys. Best duty I had in my entire career. |
Orsak, Bernard | E3 | 1968 – 1970 | Photo Lab | |
Knight, Vincent | DP3 | 1968 – 1970 | S1 | The best time of my life with James Powell, leon Gregory, Kujawa, Teleczan, Reed Stokes and Dan Trachenberg. Where are you guys? Look me up I'd love to see you. |
Helms, Jimmie | fn | 1968 – 1970 | engine room | |
Evans, Larry | sh3 | 1968 – 1970 | supply | |
Highley, Roy | EM2 | 1968 – 1971 | R3 | JJ i still have the photo of Sumiko, Emiko, me and you last night in Sasebo, looking for CJ Outz, Earl and Brent Johnston, Bob, benjo brush, Ferguson, TF Murphy, LL Williams, packrat, JS-BS Williams, Rail Road Hendricks, |
Auvenshine, David | MR3 | Jan 1968 – Dec 1969 | Lower Machine Shop R2 | Loved my years on the Ajax and the people I met and worked with. |
Thomas M. Hocking, Tom - Tink | SK3 | Jan 1, 1968 – Aug 10, 1969 | S-1 | Our tour off Viet Nam with port and starboard liberty. Pulling back into Sasebo from the P.I. or Hong Kong. Fiddler's Green and the Shinosaki Laundry company. The yard's and Yoko. |
Barnes, David | IM 2 | Jan 5, 1968 – Feb 5, 1970 | R-5 | one of the best times in my life.18 and single and out to see the world. met with a great bunch of sailors and worked hard and played even harder. repaired gauges in the MIRCS lab under chief hallmen. anchors away AJAX |
Lopresti, Frank | HT3 | Jan 15, 1968 – Feb 15, 1971 | r | great ship |
Frost, Gerald | E3 | Mar 18, 1968 – Nov 18, 1969 | Main Engine Room | |
Parks, Harold/ Ed | PO3 | Apr 1968 – Mar 1969 | PIPE GANG | Had lots of friends onboard but am having trouble remembering their names. I worked with a guy nick named "spider" because he was small in stature and could get into really tight places when we were insulating pipes on different ships. |
Kahland, Bob | RM2 | Apr 1968 – Jan 1970 | Admiral's staff | |
Pinkus, Robert | IM2 | Apr 1968 – Apr 1970 | r5 | Had a great time, loved every second aboard the Ajax, Sasebo, the clubs, the girls, the fleet gym at the end of our pier, we had sushi before it became popular in the U.S. A girl in every port. |
Verdusco, Manny "Tony" | E-4/MR | Apr 1, 1968 – Apr 5, 1970 | Lwr. Machine Shop | 18 yr. old right out of boot camp, first time away from home, strange country, I couldn't have met a better bunch of guys: Richard Hardtke Richard Milliman Steve Borden and many more. These guys took care of me and showed me the ropes. |
Dorsey, Mel | SH2 | Apr 6, 1968 – | S-3 | Ajax was my first (and best) command. Loved the WestPac. |
Bob, Hayden | BM2 | May 1968 – May 1970 | 1st div boat deck crane ops | Great ship and crew,made a lot of good friends.Lost some good men who went to NAM....SN Tinko & BM1 Martinez~! RIP~!! Loved running the cranes and enjoyed watching some of the operators who could make that thing dance. |
Teichmiller, Gery | RM3 | May 1, 1968 – Jun 1, 1970 | Communications | |
Domino, Robert | BT-2 | May 10, 1968 – Feb 10, 1972 | R-2 | I had great times and memories serving with fellow shipmates, on boiler repair shop. |
Powell, Gary | GM2 | Jun 1968 – Jul 1970 | Gunnery | |
Harrison, Jack | DC3 | Jun 25, 1968 – Feb 15, 1970 | R-1 | I worked in the Carpenter shop with Bubar, Rousseau, Fatkin, Canavan and others. I had a great time. I enjoyed Subic Bay, Sasebo, Yokosuka, And we worked hard in Vung Tao. |
Becker, Bob | MR3 to MR1 | Sep 1, 1968 – Mar 1, 1972 | R-2 Upper and Lower Machine Shops | My time on AJAX was probably the best of my career. AJAX was a hard worker and my shipmates were top shelf. Fair winds and following seas to all. Not sure but will try to make 2010 reuniion. |
Ulitsch, Albert/al | E-3 | Oct 1968 – Mar 1971 | shipfitter | |
Wyatt, Raymond | MM1 | Nov 15, 1968 – Sep 5, 1972 | A | |
Timmerhoff, Tim | BT | Nov 21, 1968 – Nov 21, 1972 | mp | 58 years old now. still tell friends stories of my life on the ajax . I married well , Raised two sons. One in collage and the oldest was killed in the coast guard. I live in montana, black belt in aikido. ride a road king, fish.shoot |
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