Many thanks to Robert McClellan for providing this photograph of his father, H.W. “Mack” McClellan, Phm2c.

Mack was a hospital corpsman aboard the Calvert beginning with the invasion of Sicily, July 1943, through to the end of the war in the fall of 1945. He participated in the Calvert’s landings as a permanent member of the Calvert’s shore and beach party crew.

Mack can be seen with the Calvert’s medical corpsmen crew here.

Mack was also part of the Calvert’s shore party who were sent ashore in Hiroshima in October,1945, two months after the bomb (The Calvert was part of the occupation forces following the surrender of Japan).

 Note:

• 2014-04-05 – Improved post and add cross-links.
• 2014-08-03 – Corrected dates on medical corpsmen photograph.