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Updated: June 13, 2023
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USN Recruits
These recruits have mostly just left high schools.They will be suject to basic training for about 16 weeks, and then be assigned to the fleet.

Secret Mission to Saigon
Pilots and crew of Navy VP-772 prepare to enplane for then 'secret' mission, ferrying aircraft to French forces in Indochina on orders from President Truman.

Shipmates
Shipmates, Frank Tatu (L) and
LCDR Jeffrey A. Bender, USNR, at 50-year reunion of Naval
Patrol Squadron VP-772 at Seattle, Sept. 1-3, 2000
LCDR Jeffrey A. Bender, USNR, at 50-year reunion of Naval
Patrol Squadron VP-772 at Seattle, Sept. 1-3, 2000
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Navy PB4Y loads for combat
Crewmen of VP-772 load 50 cal. guns on PB4Y-2 preparatory to combat air mission over Korea. Dan Castro, far right, of San Diego is only identifiable crewman.
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2020 marks 20 years since the inception of AncientFaces. We are the same team who began this community so long ago. Over the years it feels, at least to us, that our family has expanded to include so many. Thank you!
2020 marks 20 years since the inception of AncientFaces. We are the same team who began this community so long ago. Over the years it feels, at least to us, that our family has expanded to include so many. Thank you!


Gladys Amelia Tatu of El Cajon, San Diego County, CA was born on March 22, 1896, and died at age 88 years old in 1984.

Shipmates
Shipmates, Frank Tatu (L) and
LCDR Jeffrey A. Bender, USNR, at 50-year reunion of Naval
Patrol Squadron VP-772 at Seattle, Sept. 1-3, 2000
LCDR Jeffrey A. Bender, USNR, at 50-year reunion of Naval
Patrol Squadron VP-772 at Seattle, Sept. 1-3, 2000
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USN Recruits
These recruits have mostly just left high schools.They will be suject to basic training for about 16 weeks, and then be assigned to the fleet.

Aerial Photography
Navy aerial photographer Frank
Tatu prepares to board SNJ for
photo reconnisance flight over
South Korea
Tatu prepares to board SNJ for
photo reconnisance flight over
South Korea

Walker Residence, NY 1896
Walker Residence, Buffalo, NY 1896: 283 14th St. Elise, Sarah, Mary, Ida, and Frank Knoll on porch. Home of Louis Adolphus Walker (1833-1909) and of his daughter, Gladys Amelia, who was to marry Charles Francis Tatu and become mother of Rita, Mary Lois, Frank, and Rachel
People in photo include: Katherine Hynes Tatu, William Tatu, Regina Tatu, and John Tatu
People in photo include: Katherine Hynes Tatu, William Tatu, Regina Tatu, and John Tatu
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Gladys Amelia (Walker) Tatu, 1898 New York
Nana, Gladys Amelia Tatu, nee Walker, as a baby in 1898. Daughter of Louis Adolphus Walker of Buffalo, NY, formerly of Montreal, Canada and of Ameria Grignon (Greenough). She married Charles Tatu in 1917. She died in 1984, at age 88.
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Frederick Joseph Harlfinger, New York 1931
Frederick Joseph Harlfinger document, New York 1931: Signed by the acting Secretary of the Navy, this document appoints Frederick Joseph Harlfinger, 2nd, as a midshipman in the United States Navy. The document was found in the attic of an ancient (circ. 1817) house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
People in photo include: Frederick Joseph Harlfinger
People in photo include: Frederick Joseph Harlfinger

first grade students at war relocation center
These young students,mostly from California,had been taken from their homes and relocated to an Arizona desert at the outbreak of Worl War II

LCDR Donald D. Nittinger
LCDR Nittinger, CO Navy Patrol
Squadron VP-772, reports for
duty, having been activated for Korean War. Cake says 'We knew you were comig, so we baked a cake'
Squadron VP-772, reports for
duty, having been activated for Korean War. Cake says 'We knew you were comig, so we baked a cake'

Navy PB4Y loads for combat
Crewmen of VP-772 load 50 cal. guns on PB4Y-2 preparatory to combat air mission over Korea. Dan Castro, far right, of San Diego is only identifiable crewman.

Secret Mission to Saigon
Pilots and crew of Navy VP-772 prepare to enplane for then 'secret' mission, ferrying aircraft to French forces in Indochina on orders from President Truman.

Charles Francis Tatu, 1928
Father Chas. Francis Tatu (R), at work in 1928 as a draftsman. Born 9/7/91, he died 3/7/45. He was husband of Gladys Walker, and father of Rita, Mary Lois, Frank, and Rachel.
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Frank Tatu & Burroughs Council, CA 1942
The John Burroughs Junior High School Student Council in October, 1942. In this photo: Frank Tatu, Marylin Owen, Al Hansen, Leone Smith, Dick Jury, Berta Godell, Beverly Mercer, Bonnie Loush,
Jeanne Laber, Dutchie Swartz, and Frank Reggio.
People in photo include: Marylin Owen, Al Hansen, Leone Smith, Dick Jury, Berta Godell, Beverly Mercer, Bonnie Loush, Jeanne Laber, Dutchie Swartz, and Frank Reggio
Jeanne Laber, Dutchie Swartz, and Frank Reggio.
People in photo include: Marylin Owen, Al Hansen, Leone Smith, Dick Jury, Berta Godell, Beverly Mercer, Bonnie Loush, Jeanne Laber, Dutchie Swartz, and Frank Reggio
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Kami-Shibai, Japan 1951
Yokohama, Japan, 1951: Stories narrated from picture cards called "Kami-Shibai," mounted on bicycle racks. Before the introduction of TV in Japan. The operators sold candies to their audience, mostly children.

LCDR James Hayward, USNR
LCDR James Hayward, USNR. Hayward was XO of Navy Patrol Squadron VP-772, which was activated Sept. 1, 1950 and deployed to the Korean Theater Jan. 1, 1951. The squadron was 'augmented' into the regular Navy as VP-17 on February 4, 1953.
