Meet Seaman Stanley "Dusty" Rhodes. (Not to be confused with that wrestler guy.) Mr. Rhodes was a former boyfriend of my mom. He gave her his yearbook from returning from a tour on the USS Ranger aircraft carrier. (I did do review of a magazine on carrier operations.) After mom died, dad unsurprisingly didn't want to keep the book. (Dad was also in the Army.) Dad did make an effort to find him. I did some Internet searching and talked to a relative, but to no avail. So, I am now in possession of the book.
Inside the front cover were a few loose items, including the picture. There were a couple of local news articles about the deployment and a Billboard Hot 100. Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Elvis was #1 in the nation at this time.
Inside the front cover in the upper left was Dusty's inscription to mom.
I photographed the pages in the book for these postings. They're going to be a little rough, but if I'd tried to put this huge book on the scanner I'd never have gotten this done.
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