ARL Flotilla Two - Naval Cruise Book

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USS PROSERPINE THE USS PROSERPINE (ARL 21) was built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works at Seneca, Illinois and originally christened USS LST 1116 on January 9, 1945. She was converted to her present duties four short months later by the Gibbs Gas Engine Company at Jacksonville, Florida. After commissioning as a repair ship on 31 May 1945, the PROSERPINE did a tour of duty in the Philippine Islands and up on returning to the United States was decommissioned at New Orleans, Louisiana on 18 January 1947. After spending three and one-half years in mothballs at Green Cove Springs, Florida, she was recommisisioned on 27 October 1950 and became a member of the U. S. At- lantic Fleet. The main function of the PROSERPINE and her crew is to keep in repair the ships of Landing Ship Flotilla Two which have been assigned to her. All hands aboard have shown the greatest willingness to work at any hour with the main idea being to get the job done in the best manner possible. The officers and men of the PROSERPINE were rewarded for their efforts when Vice Admiral Fahrion, Commander Amphibious Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, presented the PROSERPINE the Amphibious Force Battle Efficiency Award for 1952 as being the best of her type in the Amphibious Force of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet. In addition to her regular repair work the PROSERPINE has participated in Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea repairing damage that occurred during such exercises. Liberty calls have been made at St. Thomas, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. Many members of the crew have taken an active part in the athletic program aboard. In the short time since recommissioning, the ship has won rwo Softball and one football championship. Come what may in the future, whether it be to repair some badly damaged ship on a fleet exercise or to replace a radio tube in a radio while at her pier in her home port, the PROSERPINE will always be ready as she has in the past.

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ROSTER ARL14 FN Ronald Dewyer QMSN Charles A. Doe FA Milton G. Dumouchel EN2 Joseph O. Durling MEFN Michael Dwyer, Jr. SN Michael R. Eberhardt FN WiUiam S. Edens EMI Lawrence C. Edwards SN Roy L. Edwards SH3 Carl A. Ellis DCFN George Evans FN Stephen J. Ferraro ET3 Philip D. Flanner, Jr. EMFA John J. Flynn FCl Cecil E. Forbis EM3 Calvin D. Freese FN Earl G. Fuller FN H K George FP3 Russell J. Geppert, Jr. SA Donald J. Giannotti FPFN Ralph E, Gibble FN Everett D. Gibbs SN William W. Goad MEGl Joseph F. Goncalves RMSN Donald F. Gregory SA James A. Greene ENG3 Elbert Grove DK3 David R. Gunta ENl Ronald E. Henderson TESN Richard S. Hicks FN Donald T. Hussey SH2 Randall L. Hyre EN2 Young P. Ingle RMSN Norman B. Jahn FN John M. Jancik BMl William H. Johnson SA Arnold J. Kath FP2 Richard L. Kicklighter SA Everett J. Kinnaird DC3 Roger J. Kinnaird SA Eugene Klodell, Jr. MRFN Jerry J. Koenig FPFN Stanley L. Krumm EN3 Arnold G. Kruzell SA Raymond L. Krzywulak SN Joseph E. Kuszewski QMSN John J. Laclave SA Allen L Ladue PNSN Maxium L. Laplante SN Irving J. Leach FA Allen L. Lee SN Jack D. Leigh SA James C. Leigh RMSN Robert L. Leighton EMFN Francis L. Leonard EN3 Omer A. Livernois, Jr. MMFN Donald D. Lough ENFN Laverne L Lunde FN Arthur G. MacDougall, Jr. EM3 Raymond T. Machamer FA George M. Maddox ET3 Jerome J. Malone SK3 Robert M. Malone CS3 Lloyd E. Manning SA Russell L. Marcum CS3 Chester J. Mazur IMSN Howard H. McCall FN James F. McCandless SK3 Oris P. McDonald, Jr. FN Jerry R. McFarland FN John J. McGuire ENFN Charles E. Melanson, Jr. SKSN Robert G. MiUs SKSN James R. Neely SKSN William T. Nehila MEl Guycell Nelson SN Arden L. Nicely FPFA Billy M. Nipper YNl Leopoldo M. Noriega MEFN Leroy J. Notch FA Peter D. November FP3 Oscar C. Olson FA James J. Penn RD3 Gerald F. Peters SA3 Robert L. Pierro BM2 Marion P. Pike TN Angus W. Powell MRFN Robert F. Reddy RMSN Raymond J. Reed MR3 William R. Reeve SA Joseph F. Reid HN Roger B. Renaul BM3 James H. Reno CS3 Fred T. Richardson SN Carman E. Riley SA William C. Robb ENl Abraham Rosenthal FN Walter O. Rost EN3 Charles F. Rowe, Jr. SA Charlie T. Sampson MEFN Ronald H. Sanner MEFN Anthony J. Santisi SA Clarence D. Savage FA Walter J. Sbresny SN Robert J. Shandor FP3 William G. Sheffer SA Arnold L. Sherman MM3 WiUiam E. Simmons SN Gordon H. Skamser FN Raymond E. Smith, Jr. EN3 Rodney G. Smith FN Richard P. Sprinzl MR3 Walter H. Stange SA Carroll V. Steininger DCFN Donald T. St. George FTSN Marion B. Stone SK3 Lawrence J. Stromberg SN Charles D. Thomas MR3 Donald L. Tiedeman EM3 Jack A. Tope MEGl Louis G. Torres FA James T. Troy ME3 Robert E. Turner SA Paul E. Tyler SKG3 Dominick A. Valenti YNSN Robert D. Velloso FPFN Howard C. Walton GMl Walter Warren, Jr. TN Marion Washington BML James W. Whitaker, Jr. FN James W. White, Jr. GMSN John G. White EM2 William E. Wilbanks, Jr. EMFA Richard S. Wilkerson SDl Thomas E. Williams SN Charles H. Wilson MEFN Eugene O. Wokutch DLFN Earl R. Woodhouse SN Louis V. Woodson SN Robert P. Wychock FN Robert W. Wygant i

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