Keywords: USS PC-1264 officers and crew.jpg en The officers crew and mascot of USS PC-1264 Photo taken sometime after May 2 1945 as Ensign Gravely reported aboard on that date and in the photograph he is seated to the left of the other officers All the white Petty Officers were transferred off the ship in November 1944 The canine mascot seated front center was named Gizmo after a vote by the crew I scanned from the book Black Company by Eric Purdon who was commander of the USS PC-1264 Photo credit from book lists all photos as U S Navy Photographs unknown U S Navy photographer 1945-05- PD-USGov-Military-Navy World War II ships of the United States Submarine chasers of the United States USS PC-1264 ship 1943 African American sailors |