USS Pine Island (AV-12) · 1966
The OI Division
A shipboard portrait of the Combat Information Center, Photographic Laboratory, and Aerological Office—and the surviving yearbook record that places Wallace H. Dutton among the division’s sailors.
What the source establishes
Wallace aboard Pine Island.
The division roster identifies Dutton, Wallace H., SA. This confirms Wallace’s presence in the OI Division of USS Pine Island during the yearbook’s 1966 coverage.
Yearbook transcription
What the OI Division did.
The OI Division of the PINE ISLAND is comprised of the Combat Information Center, Photographic Laboratory, and the Aerological Office. The Combat Information Center, or Combat as it is known, has the overall responsibility of collecting, evaluating, displaying and disseminating all combat information. A part of the job in CIC is to detect and identify aircraft, and to position guns on target. Certain control functions are also exercised by Combat, such as Tender Controlled Approach (TCA) or lost plane homing.
The Air Controlmen are responsible for traffic control of aircraft during take-offs and landings, in addition to relaying weather information and directing crash boats.
The Aerology Office collects all weather information in order to advise the ship of the current and future weather outlook.
The Photographic Laboratory is responsible for aerial, I.D., and cruise book photographs, and any other required photographic work.
The division, together
The 1966 group portrait.
The colorized version is an interpretive restoration intended to make the scene easier to explore. The original monochrome scan remains the authoritative image.
Names as printed beneath the photograph
Row One
- Falk, Larry A., SA
- Wickham, Raymond H., RD3
- Fox, Michael D., AG3
- Thorpe, James E., AG1
- Abell, Fred K., AGC
- LT Marshall W. Martini
- Moore, John E., RD2
- Barrett, Raymond M., AG2
- Luedcke, Robert C., AC3
- Pheatt, Gary C., AG3
Row Two
- Jackson, James H., RDSN
- Hurst, Victor C., SA
- Sigafoos, Dennis A., AG3
- Gahagan, Richard T., AG3
- Short, Clyde E., AC2
- Walker, William R., AC3
- Lynch, John B., AC3
- Cardullo, Eugene J., SN
- Powell, Lyle A., SN
- Hamer, Terry L., SA
- Patton, William R., SA
- Gray, Thomas R., SA
- Bailey, George R., RDSN
Row Three
- Atkins, Herbert L., SN
- Shriverdecker, Jack J., RDSN
- Bringul, David R., RDSN
- Qualters, Donald P., RD3
- Thorton, Robert B., SA
- Snipes, Jay F., ACAN
- Huber, Stanley J., SA
- Walker, Gary J., YN3
- Willingham, James M., AN
- Nelson, Franklin T., SA
- Dutton, Wallace H., SA
Working life
Photographs from the OI Division pages.
These images have been clipped from the yearbook pages so the division’s people, equipment, and daily work can be viewed without the surrounding scan.
Original source
Read the complete scan.
USS Pine Island (AV-12), 1966. Conflict period: Vietnam War. Content source: Navy Department Library. Fold3 image 301228449; Job No. 12-037.