Bainbridge (DLGN 25) - Naval Cruise Book

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Executive Officer The Executive Officer of Bainbridge is Commander John Bell, USN, a graduate of the Naval Academy in 1947. He served aboard the aircraft carrier Coral Sea with the U. S. Adantic Fleet until 1950, with duties in the Navigation, Engineering, and Executive Depart- ments. Next he had a short tour of duty on the mine- sweeper Lorikeet, followed by further minesweeping operations as Executive Officer of Mocking Bird and Commanding Officer of GtdL taking part in combat operations off Korea. On returning to the United States, he served as Navigator of the Presidential yacht lF 7- iani.sburg until she was decommissioned in 1953, and during this period he was also Officer in Charge of Camp David, the Presidential summer camp in Mary- land. After normal tours of duty in the Bureau of Ships and aboard Brown (DD 546), he spent the year 1957-58 at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, in the command and staff course. He was assigned next as Chief Staff Officer of Destroyer Development Group RWO at Newport, and later completed the one-year Nuclear Power Training Course at Mare Island, Cali- fornia, and Arco, Idaho. His awards include the Bronze Star with Combat V for combat minesweep- ing operations at Hungnam, Wonsan, Inchon, and Chinnampo, Korea.

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Commanding Officer The Commanding Officer of Bainhridgc, Captain Raymond E. Peet, is a native of Oneonta, New York. He attended Binghamton North High School in Bing- hamton, New York, where he was graduated in 1939, first in his class. He was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1942. He became a veteran destroyerman in World War II, serving two years as Gunnery Officer and E.xecutive Officer aboard USS Converse (DD 509). His ship re- ceived the Presidential Unit Citation for heroic service in the Solomon Islands with Destroyer Squadron 23, the famed Little Beavers squadron ol Arleigh 31- Knot Burke. He also served on USS Aiilick (DD 569) in the Okinawa and Philippine Islands campaigns. In 1948, Captain Peet graduated from the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology with a Master ' s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Later he was Camnery OHicer aboard USS New Jersey (BB 61? ; Commanding Offi- cer of USS Barton (DD 722) and aide to Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh Burke. He spent a year under instruction with Vice Admiral Hvman Rickover in the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission.

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