On December 30, 2021, I received the following email:

My name is Julian Segura...
I don't know where to start... but thank you is most appropriate!

I recently managed to find your post with the pictures your father took from the USS Omaha during the evacuation from Caldetas Spain in January 1939.

Of most interest to me was the photo of the navy skiff loaded with evacuees heading for the USS Badger. You see, my father, Jack Segura and his sister Maria were on that skiff! My dad was 16 and my aunt 18. Though they both grew up in Spain, they both had US citizenship, enabling them to board the Badger. (Though she was with them in Caldetas at the time, their mother could not evacuate with them as she did not have US citizenship.) It's hard to make anyone out in the photo, so I don’t know for sure, but I strongly believe they are the two figures off the right shoulder of the tall man standing near the back wearing the black hat.

They made it to Marseille that same day. They then traveled to Le Havre and boarded a ship on March 19, arriving in New York on March 25th; one month to the day after escaping Caldetas.

My dad passed away in 2015 and my aunt in 2002. While the family knew the basic information of their evacuation, we didn’t know many of the specific details. For instance, we knew they got out on a US navy ship as bombs were falling, but not the name of the ship. We also didn’t know the date it took place. But to have an actual photo of this event in our family’s history is nothing short of miraculous!

So again, thank you for sharing your dad’s photos with the rest of the world and with the Segura family. I only wish my father was alive to see them.

He also sent a copy of the relevant January 1939 US Department of State press releases:

(January 25...) Mr. Walter C. Thurston, Counselor of Embassy at Caldetas, Spain, has reported to the Department of State that the U. S. destroyer Badger left Caldetas for Marseille, France, at 1:50 p.m. (West Europe time) today with 20 refugees, including 7 women and 3 children. The names of the refugees will be furnished later. The following members of the Embassy and Consulate General's staffs were aboard the U.S. cruiser Omaha : Mr. Walter C. Thurston, Counselor of Embassy and Chargé d'Affaires; Lt. Col. Henry B. Cheadle, Military Attaché; Capt. Francis Cogswell, Naval Attaché and Naval Attaché for Air; Mr. Charles Gilbert, Embassy clerk; Mr. William Krieger, Embassy clerk; Mr. Fred T. Turner, of the International Telephone and Telegraph Co.; and Mr. Dennis, of the International Telephone and Telegraph Co.

(January 27...) The American consul general at Marseille, France, Mr. John P. Hurley, reported to the Department yesterday that the following American citizens arrived at Marseille on Janu ary 25 on the destroyer U. S. S. Badger from Barcelona:

• U.S. CRUISER SAILS TO BARCELONA AREA; Omaha Due Off Caldetas Today to Take Aboard Americans Wishing to Depart, New York Times, 24 January 1939, p.8.
• Rebels Smash at Barcelona, Madera Tribune, Volume LXXIII, Number 68, 23 January 1939 (front page).
• The American Foreign Service Journal, Vol.16 No.3, March 1939.