Lt. Cmdr. Iselin and Chief Yeoman Payne: USS ATHERTON (DE-169)
Entry/Object ID
2023.7.128
Description
This photograph shows Chief Yeoman Conley Payne standing just outside the superstructure with the ATHERTON's commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Lewis Iselin. Payne gifted this photograph to Iselin with a handwritten note in blue:
"To the "Skipper" with respect and admiration - Conley Payne, CY".
On the reverse side: "Pearl Harbor, TH June 1945. It was hard to make this enlargement as you were in the shade and I was in the sun. C.
Conley Payne CY
Lt Cdr Lewis Iselin
Commanding USS Atherton (DE-169)"
