This page contains stories submitted by shipmates.
Stories should be submitted to uss_collett@sbcglobal.net.
The Reluctant Crewman (by Andy Anderson)
Set the Wing Tank Recovery Detail (by Andy Anderson)
USS Collett, DD 730 -- I Remember (by Walter Dix)
Three Years Under The Mast (by Richard Gregory)
The Sitting Duck Poem (by Joe Carrillo and submitted by Bob Whitt and Bill Kephart)
I Was a Member of the Crew That Put Her Out of Commission (by William (Mac) McClelland)
Messcooking in the Summer of 1962 (by Henry Earl Milliner)
Halfway Around the World (by Frank Olderr)
My First General Quarters (by Frank Olderr)
Seaman Kelly (by Frank Olderr)
The Great Ice Cream Caper (by Frank Olderr)
Un-Rep (by Frank Olderr)
Two Records of USS COLLETT Activities in May 1963 (by Frank Olderr)
Raid on Tokyo Bay (by Ken Perry)
with a postscript by Alan Jepson
ASW Patrol in the Tsugaru Strait (by John Slater)
Recollections of the role of the USS COLLETT in the USS PUEBLO Incident of 1968 (By Don Walton)
with a postscript added by Gene Strommen
another postscript by Jim Flynn
another postscript by Al Burke
another postscript by Joe Scannell
All Are Welcome On Our Signal Bridge (by Albert Wapstra)
A Boot Remembers (by Albert Wapstra)
Breaking Wind Down the Message Tube (by Albert Wapstra)
Burial At Sea (by Albert Wapstra)
USS COLLETT Poem from the DIARY of the WWII Naval Experiences of Edward James Varden, FC3, Aboard the USS CHARLES S. SPERRY
Shrapnel on the Signal Bridge (by William L. Wardell)
with a postscript by Dannis Lozano
A Letter from William L. Wardell, CDR, USN (Retired)