USS Mount Katmai AE-16
The above picture of the Mount Katmai was obtained from AE Sailors Association.
1945
1949
The keel was laid on November 11, 1944 at North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. She was launched on the 6th of January 1945 and commissioned the USS Mount Katmai AE-16 on July 21st, 1945. She is a Wrangel Class ship. She did not make it to the Pacific in time to be in World War II. She was the first Ammo ship in Korea at the outbreak of the Korean War.
Richard Bonney - 46-52 QM1
Andy W. Amburgey - 47-48
Charles Crowell - 48-51 GM2
George D. Demetral - 45-50 EM3
Dave Dominguez - 47-50 EM3
Mickey Ganitch - 48-54 CQM
Ken Halick - 45-46 RD3
Harry King - 48-51 LTjg
Don Micco - 49-52 GM3
Thomas Moose - 46-47 SN
David S. Potter - 45-46
George M. Starke - 46-48
Glen Tyndall - 45-46 SM3
James Chapman - 48-52 BM2
Don Clingenpeel - 46-52 BM1
Fred Dahl - 45-46 PH3
George R. Doane - 45-46
Malcolm Durell - 46-49 ET2
Al Gianneski - 46-47
Mike Henderson - 47-48
Jim Lathen -46-47
Morris Mills - 47-49
James Pinkman - 45 WT2
Richard J. Ptacek - 46-49 BM3
Robert H. Starrett - 46-47 BM2
Jerome R. Ahrendsen - 47 EM3
Hubert Comer - 45 RM3
Richard Darsow 46-52 YM
William Dodge - 45-46 F1
Harold Dutro - 49-54 CMM
Bill Grundy - 47-49 EN3
Hank Irish - 47-51 SN
Jack Lipieko - 48-51 BM3
O.G. Minier - 45-48 BM3
James Pollock - 46-47 SN
Charles Schmidmeister - 46-48 S?1
Frank Treubig - 45 QM2
The following names are from the Reunion List - Only those names with years served are listed.
We have no photo's from 1945 to 1949 YET!
Chief Radioman Laurent C. LaFond, supplied the photo above. He joined the Mt. Katmai April 1956 and left in September of the same year.
Shoulder patch
Menu:
Page 1 - 1945 to 1949 You are here
Page 2 - 1950 to 1959
Page 2c 1956 - 1958 Photos
Page 2a Special Ops 1959
Page 3 - 1960 to 1969
Page 3a More Photos 60's
Page 3b 1963 - 1967
Page 4 - 1970 to 1973
Reunion Info on Page 3
Click on Logo above to go there...
For Reunion Info - See Page 3
I was on her for 4.5 years, as an electrician, starting in 45. There was was Mung, Al Kurtz, Tom Singleton, Dubrell, Finley Walker, and that's all I remember. Great Pics
Wayne Nyland - USS Mount Katmai - AE-16 - 1945 to 1949
