JL-00 Jorgen S. Lorenzen (far right) at Danish Navy Diving School

JL-01 NSMW Graduating Class, Jan. 1951. Jorgen in khakies, on right. Two Danish compatriots, left

JL-10 Town of Lee Hall.

JL-11 An old house on way to Yorktown.

Arriving by train at Lee Hall, I hoped that the school in Yorktown wouldn't be representative of the house along the way.

 

JL-02 Marching to class.

JL-03 Control mine classrooms

 

JL-08 My barracks at Yorktown.

JL-09 Mk 6 junk yard

 

JL-06 The ferry from Newport News to Norfolk-a thirty minute trip.

 

JL-07 My friends on the fery. (L-R) McCarthy, my Mk 25 mine instructor, me, and fellow Danes,
 Lt. Commander Petersen and Hartvig. Note the restroom, behind, for "whites."

 

JL-04 Minesweeper training, rigging streaming gear.

JL-05 Setting the paravanes on board AMS-24

 

USS Linnet (AMS-24)

 

 

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