Photographer's Mate Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel A. Bernath, 1968. 
Notice the wooden flight deck on the 1943 built aircraft carrier.

PH3 George Jackson in 1957, left the Navy, completed college, got commissioned, got his wings and
become the Photo Officer of the USS Yorktown on its last combat cruise in Vietnam.
 Lt. Jackson with Hong Kong as background in 1968
Lt. Jackson was the kind of photo officer who would come into the photo lab, have a few minutes conversation with everyone (from the Chief on down to every airman apprentice) and leave everyone feeling glad to be working for him and being in the Navy.

Camera Registration Card for ABH1 Simpson, B.F. of HS-4. 
Signed by USS Yorktown Photographic Officer Lt. George W. Jackson  30 April 1968

PHCS Emiliano Relleve, USN, Leading Petty Officer of Photo Lab
during Yorktown's last combat zone cruise in 1968
A very experienced Chief who cared about his crew.
He passed away in 2004.  His shipmates miss him.
Click here for Memorial, presented by
National Association of Naval Photography

Warranty Officer
Photography