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USS Halford (DD-480). LT Elvin Clinton Ogles (USNA 1938) shoots the sun from the ship’s bridge while W.T. Gautrau, QMC, takes notes. Late April 1944. Note pelorus in the background. Ogle was serving aboard the USS Patterson in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and remained aboard that hard-fighting tin can through the first amphibious landings on Guadalcanal and the night sea battle of Savo Island before becoming a Halford plankowner, eventually becoming her XO. He finished the war as the skipper of USS Gillespie (DD-609) then later commanded the destroyer USS Radford (DD-446) off Korea. Capt. Ogles retired in 1968 as skipper of the Naval Reserve Training Center, Seattle, and passed in 2006, aged 92. 80-G-253287