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	41k	Ralph Talbot was born on 6 January 1897 in South Weymouth, Massaschusetts. He attended Yale University and the Dupont Aviation School (located at Wilmington, Delaware) before joining the U.S. Navy in November 1917. After ground school training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and flight training at Key West, Florida, he was commissioned as a Navy Ensign in April 1918. A month later, he was transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Flying Corps as a Second Lieutenant. Talbot served with Squadron C, First Marine Corps Aviation Force in France during the summer and early autumn of 1918. On 8 October, while on an air raid with his observer, Gunnery Sergeant Robert G. Robinson, USMC, they shot down one of the nine enemy scouts that attacked their bombing group. On 14 October 1918 over Pittham, Belgium, their plane, along with another, became separated from their formation and were attacked by 12 enemy scouts. During the ensuing fight, Robinson was severely injured by enemy fire and collapsed. With his observer unconscious and his motor failing, Talbot shot down another enemy plane. He then flew to the nearest hospital to leave Robinson for treatment. Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot was killed in a test flight on 25 October. For his "exceptionally meritorious service and extraordinary heroism" in the aerial battles of 8 and 14 October 1918, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Robert Talbot was initially interred in France, but his remains were later brought home and are now buried in Mount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Massachusetts. Photo from the USMC History Division.		Bill Gonyo
	62k	Undated, location unknown.		Tom Kermen
	81k	Richard W. Friedrich collection, slide number 187B.		Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467
	82k	Undated, location unknown.		David Buell
	112k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) silhouetted against the sun, while off Manhattan Island, New York City, in about 1938. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	101k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 23 March 1938. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	124k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) underway off the coast of Maui in 1940. Photograph # 80-G-415470 from the U.S. National Archives.		Bill Gonyo
	133k	Overhead of the Ralph Talbot and an unidentified sister at Mare Island Navy Yard in April, 1942. A good detail shot as to the Bagley class deck layout.		-
	144k	Navy Photo 1757-4-42, bow view of the under body of the USS Ralph Talbot (DD 390) in dry dock #2 at Mare Island on 7 April 1942. She was in dry dock from 6 to 11 April and under repair at Mare Island from 3 April to 11 April 1942.		Darryl Baker
	150k	Navy Photo 1758-4-42, stern view of the under body of the USS Ralph Talbot (DD 390) in dry dock #2 at Mare Island on 7 April 1942.		Darryl Baker
	114k	Outboard USS Blue (DD-387) and inboard USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1942. Among the details visible are: newly-installed 20mm guns; blowers mounted on deck aft of # 2 5"/38 gun; Mk. 33 gun directors atop pilothouse; radio-direction finding antennas on pilothouse face; and quadruple torpedo tubes amidships. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	147k	Outboard USS Blue (DD-387) and inboard USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1942. Among the details visible are: 5"/38 gun mounts; newly-installed 20mm guns; Mk. 33 gun directors atop pilothouses; and stores in boxes on Ralph Talbot's forecastle.		Fred Weiss
	68k	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 11 April 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	56k	Escorting the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion convoy, circa 7-8 August 1942. HMAS Australia is dimly visible in the far right distance, beyond the three destroyers manuevering there. Photographed by Corp. L.M. Ashman, USMC. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	125k	October, 1942 photo of the Ralph Talbot, at Mare Island Navy Yard, showing newly added twin 40mm guns, side mounted depth charge throwers and short IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) mainmast.		-
	172k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD 390) off Mare Island on October 28, 1942. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	215k	October 28 1942 at Mare Island.		David Buell
	63k	Photo from the 1943-45 Naval Recognition Manual. Starboard broadside photo of the USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) in December, 1942 carrying the Measure MS21 camouflage scheme. The large boiler uptakes to her single stack and the four sets of quadruple torpedo tube mounts identify her as a Craven class/Bagley sub-class destroyer.		Mike Green
	119k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) Underway in Hawaiian waters, circa January 1943. This photograph was received by the Bureau of Ships from Pearl Harbor, with a letter of 17 January 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	82k	Photograph received by the Bureau of Ships from the Hunter's Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, California, with a letter of 19 May 1944. It was probably taken in San Francisco Bay just prior to that date. Her camouflage scheme is Measure 33, Design 1d. Note U.S. Coast Guard ensign flying from the vessel carrying the photographer. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	68k	February 1945, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	173k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 20 March 1946, with harbor tugs alongside and nearby. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	160k	USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, 20 March 1946, with harbour tugs alongside and a crane barge by her bow (USN Photo No 19-N-114589).		Robert Hurst

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