 The picture was taken just before Weller's letter to the Foreign Editor of the "Chicago Daily News" quoted in "Weller's War" pp355–6.At left is Commander Hiram Cassedy[correct spelling], then Captain of "Searaven", hero of several submarine engagements in South-west Pacific ("Submarine Operations in World War II" US Naval Institute Eight Printing December 1965 pages 104,193-4,233,463).At right is George Weller wearing British-type tropical uniform of shorts and knee socks.