Built for a crew of 70, the Macaw departed San Francisco Bay on 28 August 1943 with a complement of 120 men. Attached, in no particular order, are brief sketches of some of them.
Front row (including men on ground), from left: Donald Srack, Daniel Weber, Robert Phelan, Charles Shook, Quinton Studer, Raymond Toth, Anthony Tomkovicz, Joseph Tibor, Virgil Anderson, Edward Bronson, John Leigh
Second row: [Floyd Harvey or Dwight Harvey], John Parsons, Ralph Enzweiler, William Gibbs, Frank Spoonamore, Worth Windle, guest officer Cullen, Bud Loughman, guest officer Brad, William Smith, John Stout, Leroy Warner, Russell Francis, Erwin Knecht [or, possibly, Nord Lester]
Third row: Curtis Wainscott, Edwin Goetsch, Alfred Jones, George Baker, Joseph Calligan, Dean Jewell, George Keehn, Robert Gonnoud, Robert Bloom, Nathan Turner, George Manning, Robert Jacobsen, Harry Vance, Jack Vangets, Edward Wade, Arthur Springs, Jack Moore, Albert Muti
Fourth row: Stephen Miller, Lyle Webb, Lawrence Mathers, Robert Blinn, E. J. Nations, Vorie Darling, Luther Fry, Meredith Keene, Stanley Libera, George Gritton, Ernst Luders, Hughey Lindsey; (behind Lindsey) Victor Auble; (to Auble’s left) Leonard Mayer; (to Mayer’s left) Joseph Verkennes; (to Verkennes’s left) Adam Autin; (behind Verkennes) Lewis Vickers; (in front of Verkennes) Walter Voke; (in front of Autin, with Voke’s hand on his shoulder) James Main
Back row: Bert Maas, Robert Mathews, Richard Williamson, Herman Ehlers, Claude ‘Toby’ Hannah, David Wallington, John Paul Graaff, Albert Bolke, Elmer Ganstine, J. T. Strickland, Charles Kumler; (in front of Kumler) Robert Friend; (to Kumler’s left) Charles Brasier, Myron Froehlich, Peter Semotuk