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Corporal Curtis J. Wells, MIA, South Korea 1951, remains returned to the U.S. in 2016. I was stationed at a Navy Photo Lab in Hawaii back in the early 1980s. I provided photographic support to the command still searching for missing military personnel from previous wars. One task was making prints of the missing like this portrait of Corporal Wells. It was at this point me that the missing went from just a number to a real person.
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Wow. That must have been an amazing experience. Bringing all those names back to being a person.

 

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The sailors with the beard are most likely Submariners. It was the only part of the Navy that showed easing of grooming standards before 1970s. Under Zumwalt the CNO of the Navy in the early 1970s he issued that sailors could have beards or side burns.

My grandpa served on a tiny wooden minesweeper in the 1950's, and the photos from that time show him clean shaven. The funny part is I've never seen him without a trimmed beard since he's had one before I was born. My 5 o'clock shadow grows back at 1, so I just let mine grow like his.

 

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Bob Odom (blond) and Hank Hurlbut, AMG 1960.

 

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