Anchorage (LSD 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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COMMANDER FRANKLIN H. BRIGGS Commander Franklin H. BRIGGS was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on 7 March 1933 and now makes his home in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Colorado and University of Nebraska under the NROTC Regular Program and received his commission as Ensign upon graduation from the latter school in 1955. His early assignments were in the aircraft carrier USS ESSEX ICVA-QI as a Deck Division Officer, the Staff of Com- mander Naval Forces Japan as Operations Center Watch Officer, and as Assistant Plans Officer, and as Combat Information Center Officer on the Attack Transport USS PAUL REVERE IAPA-248I. Subsequent tours of duty were spent as CIC Instructor at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, Virginia and as Employment Officer of the Staff of Commander Amphibious Group ONE, homeported ini Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines. He reported to the ANCHORAGE from his most recent tour of duty as Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center, Scotia, New York. Commander BRIGGS has been awarded the Navy Commendation Medal Iwith Combat V I and also holds the Meritorious Unit Citation, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with five stars, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation ICross of Gallantryl. His wife is the former Chizuko lmaoka of Nagasaki, Japan. EXECUTIVE CDIIICEP Q

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Commodore John La Cava Jr. Commander Amphibious Squadron Five CAPTAIN JOHN LA CAVA JR., COMMANDER AIVIPHIBIOUS SOUADRON FIVE, LED HIS GROUP OF AIVIPHIBIOUS SHIPS THROUGH EIGHT TYPHOONS, WHICH RESULTED IN BEING RUN OUT OF PORT THREE TIIVIES, WITH NO CASUALTIES TO IVIEN OR EOUIPIVIENT. DURING TYPHOON JOAN, CAPTAIN LA CAVA, ON BOARD THE USS OKINAWA LPH 3, COIVIIVIANDED THE RESCUE 81 AID EFFORT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF LUZON, PHILLIPINES. THE PEOPLE OF THE STRICKEN AREA WERE VERY GREATFUL THAT PHIBRON 5 WAS THERE. TYPHOON HUNTERS. ' . ' ug gay! '-' -A -A I-f-f---A .. C. -1, f LA...-.---------'-- '- 'f -W M-A H..u.