Photo Album

2023 Rapid City, South Dakota

2022 Cleveland, Ohio

2019 Minneapolis, Minnesota

2018 Wilmington, North Carolina

2017 Spokane, Washington

  • Plank Owner – Charlie Bliss
  • WWII – Don Schaufelberger and Charlie Bliss
  • Korea – Earl Herbert, Aldo Sansoni and Thomas Judge
  • Vietnam
  • Peace Time
  • Group of USS Ajax attendees
  • Home of Bing Crosby
  • Cruise on Lake Coeur d’Alene
  • Skyway Cafe at Honor Point Museum
  • Faragut State Park

2016 New Orleans, Louisiana

  • National WWII Museum
  • Lunch and show at Stage Door Canteen: Great time!!!!
  • Some shipmates got kisses from the girls at the lunch show. RIP Mr. Willis; we will miss your smiling face.
  • Bob Bauman got a kiss and a rose. I think he is blushing.

2015 Nashville, Tennessee

  • Our new USS Ajax banner
  • Kenny Jackson brought another cake this year for the 72nd Birthday of the USS Ajax
  • Visited historic RCA Studio B where Elvis and other performers recorded their records.
  • Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Elvis Cadillac
  • Pontiac Firebird from Smoky and the Bandit II
  • Just a bunch of guys having a beer: Ron Burns, Mike Burns, Jerome McKenna, Wilford Roe and John Shattuck
  • Grand Ole Opry – saw Hunter Hays, Rascal Flatts
  • Getting ready for the banquet and raffle
  • Plank Owner Bob Bolte and his grandson Chad Bigwood. Bernice we missed you.
  • Mitch started the banquet off with “Anchors Away”.
  • Group Shots: Plank Owners
  • WWII
  • Korea
  • Vietnam
  • Peacetime
  • R4 Division
  • Women of the Ajax

2014 Pensacola, Florida

  • Hospitality Room
  • Blue Angels Practice Show at NAS Pensacola
  • NAS Pensacola Museum…..
  • Veterans Memorial Park
  • USS Alabama

2013 San Diego, California

  • Picture of all USS Ajax shipmates
  • Holiday Inn – Bayside
  • Hospitality Room
  • Hotel Del Coronado – Coronado Island
  • USS Never Sail
  • USS Midway
  • The kissing sailor
  • Hospitality Room
  • Tour of USS Chancellorville
  • Flags at Base Entrance
  • Hornblower Dinner Cruise
  • Seaport Vilage
  • Kenny Jackson and Dill Bell relaxing at Seaport Vilage…
  • Zuehlsdorf came in his original Navy uniform……

2012 Waterloo Iowa

  • Group photo
  • Ramada Hotel and Conference Center
  • John Deere Factory Tour
  • Sullivan Brothers Convention Center
  • Cake donated to USS Ajax Reunion by Kenny Jackson
  • Amana Colonies
  • Grout Museum and Sullivan Brothers Museum
  • Banquet – Plank Owner Bob Bolte and his lovely wife, Bernice
  • Our guest speaker, Granddaughter of Albert Sullivan, Kelly Sullivan Loughren

2011 Baltimore, Maryland

  • Annapolis
  • Washington DC
  • Fort McHenry
  • Baltimore
  • Banquet

2010 Duluth, Georgia

  • Downtown Atlanta – Capitol Building
  • Museum of Patriotisum
  • Gerogia Aquarium – the largest aquarium in the world
  • Stone Mountain
  • Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Carter Center
  • The Oval Office of Jimmy Carter
  • The Banquet – Tables with items for raffle
  • Doing the HOKEY POKEY !!!!!
  • Bob Bolte serenading the group
  • Bernice Bolte cutting the rug to Bob’s song

2009 San Antonio, Texas —– Under construction

2008 Charleston, South Carolina

  • Group Pictures
  • Hospitality Room
  • Fort Sumter
  • Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
  • USS Yorktown