Ed Brooks third page and fourth page are complete.
Also, if you scroll to the bottom of Ed's page 2, you can click on teo USS Helena CA-75 deck logs. Recorded 30 July 2010

Shipmate Robert L. Kern has passed away. Recorded 30 July 2010.

Ed Brooks second page is partially complete. Stay tuned. Recorded 29 July 2010

Ed Brooks has provided us with 6 issues of the USS Helena CA-75 newspaper from 1945-1946. It was named the Prospector back then.
The first of these papers is now posted with the other 5 to follow. The Prospector 5 April 1945. Recorded 29 July 2010.

A new link has been added to Ed Brooks first page. Great Lakes, IL colored post cards from 1944. Recorded 28 July 2010.

We have a new CA-75 picture "Collection"! The Ed Brooks Collection.
Ed joined the Navy in late 1944 and was assigned to the USS Helena CA-75 on 30 October 1945.
His collection is large and will take some time to post to our web page. To see it all, come back often!! Dave B. Recorded 28 July 2010.

(Late entry). Shipmate Edward L. Barlow Jr. has passed away. Recorded 27 July 2010.

We have a new CA-75 picture "Collection"! The Matt Slovensky Collection. Recorded 25 July 2010.

Shipmate Rueben J. Landrum, Sr has passed away. Recorded 24 July 2010.

Wanted!! Pictures of the USS Helena CA-75 open bridge.
Please send to dave.brouchoud@gmail.com Recorded 19 July 2010

View a new entry , # 282 in our Guest Book. Recorded 8 July 2010.

View 2 new entries , # 280 and 281 in our Guest Book. Recorded 25 June 2010.

View a new entry , # 279 in our Guest Book. Recorded 1 June 2010.

View a new entry , # 278 in our Guest Book. Recorded 31 May 2010.

Permission received from Sandi Meier to include her Father-In-Law's ("Willie" Meier)
old USS Helena CA-75 food menus on our Old Menu link. Recorded 21 May 2010.

View a new entry , # 277 in our Guest Book. Recorded 21 May 2010.

Shipmate Charlie McClelland donated a boot camp picture of himself taken in 1940.Recorded 11 May 2010.

Reference Guest Book entries 275 and 276: We are building a new collection of pictures and documents for "Willie" Meier.
View the postings so far, click HERE! Recorded 29 April 2010

We have 2 new entries, # 275 and 276 in our Guest Book. Recorded 29 April 2010.

Our April 2010 Newsletter is posted. Recorded 24 April 2010.

Shipmate Aubrey King has sent us a link to Yokosuka, Japan. Click on the top link. Recorded 18 April 2010.

Found. Another picture of the USS Helena CA-75 as she was launched. Top picture. Recorded 13 April 2010.

Thanks to a good friend and one of our web page contributors, Beverly Cobb, we can view and hear stories of Pearl Harbor Survivors.
Details, click HERE! Now click on the Survivor button. Recorded 13 April 2010.

Copied cruise books now available from Jim McNamee. Details, click HERE! Recorded 13 April 2010.

Did you know that there was another Helena at the same time as the FG9? Here's the story of the SP-24 Helena 1.

From: Dictionary of American Fighting Ships

Helena I

(SP - 24: dp. 9; l. 43'; b. 10'; dr. 3'; s. 10 k.; a. 1 mg.)

Helena I, a wooden motor yacht, was built in 1906 by Van Sant Brothers, of Port Republic, N.J., and acquired by the Navy from Dr. W. G. Hall, Trenton, N.J., in May 1917. Assigned to the 7th Naval District, she was taken to Key West, Fla., and commissioned there 7 September 1917, Otis Curry, QM 2/c in command.

Helena I operated as a harbor and coastal patrol boat in the vicinity of Key West until being decommissioned and sold 27 August 1919. Before she could be delivered to her new owner, however, the boat was wrecked 11 September 1919 in a hurricane, and was stricken from the Navy List 4 October 1919.

Transcribed by Yves HUBERT (hubertypc@aol.com)