His name is Alex Bertrand and I was just looking to see if I could find him in any of the pictures. To me he looked like one of them in the picture of the sailors holding up the german flag on the boat. but I am not sure. I made a copy of it for my grand ma and will show her. I think this site is so nice and you really did a great job. My grand pa has a few pictures of that time on the uss vance and at this time

I think I will be signing in offically for him because he would have loved to have seen this site ....