I'm looking for a crew list of the Troop Ship USS Le Jeune AP74, Going through some old photographs belonging to my Grandfather I found one of one of the crew from the ship with a note on it saying: "To my friend Robert Paul, here I am in my civilian dress after 25 months of service on the USS Le Jeune 10/23/45" His name is Bernard but I can't quite read his surname and the picture is quite faded.

Once I get some time I will scan the pic and see if I can read it a bit better.

So if anyone knows where I could see a crew list for the ship, that would be great, if he served 25 months on the ship then he would have been on the ship from when it was acquired from Brazil in 1943, the ship was an ex German freighter TS Windhuk and interned in Santos San Paulo December 1939

In 1971 the ships bell was mounted on the flagstaff at Camp Le Jeune.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lejeune_%28AP-74%29

Scanned picture front and back

Gruzeski

Could be the same person - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137217046/bernard-gruzeski

Thanks for that, had not thought of using "find a grave" I had already found a few Bernard Gruzeski in Pennsylvania going back to 1882 when the first one turns up as an immigrant while I was looking through obituaries, that particular one passed away in 1935 and he had a son called Bernard too.

My grandfather died at 90 in 1964 so he was born in or around 1874ish, while my father, also Robert, is from 1923 so I'm going by the fact that the photo is in my grandfather's album from the period of the late 20s to the early 1930s.

Thanks for that OG, my wife and I were not sure on the surname at all.

I think there is a 99.9% chance that that pic of the grave could be the same Gruzeski