Borie (DD 704) - Naval Cruise Book

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Commander H. H. Montgomery Jr. was born in Washington, D. C. on February 10, 1920. Being the son of a retired Naval Captain, he received his early education in several schools throughout the country. His Naval Career began when he graduated from thc United States Naval Academy in February 1941. His first duty station was aboard the USS NVASHINCTON QBB-SCU, helping to com- mission her, and serving primarily as Optical Officer, between the years 1941-1942. ln March, 194-2, he was culled upon to help commission another dreadnought, the USS MAS- SACHUSETTS 11315-591, serving hcr first as F Division J. O. then as lst Division Officer until ,luly ol' 1944. Since the war, Commander Montgomery has had several assignments: Poet Graduate school in Ordnance Engineering, specializing Electronics. at the U. S. Naval Aca- demy and MIT, Gunnery Officer alioard the lfSS PORTS- MOUTH fill,-IUZDZ and Asst. Gunnery and Training Officer on the Staff of ComServLant. He relieved Commander XYilliam H. 'Mack as Commanding Officer ol' the HSS IZORIF in Gibraltar, on October 4-, 1952. Commander Montgomery has lu-f-n awarded the fol- lowing decorations: American Tlicaterg liuropcan and African Theater fone starjz Aeiatif--l'ac'iliv Cfonr starsjg and the Navy Oc-c-npution Rililmon. 10 Bo 'Q 5 . coynuxmix HOW Ann HOW Llnl I MONTGOMI-.RX . Jr. XL Q0 XZQSBZQQPSX Commanding Officer, U.S,S. BORIE QDD-704-j V iO2'C'XX,5Q Q' ,bgfx web X2 4Q'tQ'S3' GOA on are gene Que 'AGO in 66 kf9'g,b view? Gig 566 ' 6 xf! 3:5 'fx c. all a Kp., GTC? ,. ,VKX Rfpljv x, Q 02' 1' ef - me . ij? 29 69 do Q12 A-'KSA 3 . gf ,OO Qi .xg 5- .. Ot 39 yd ,56 . lf: Y IL iff 3. Y . 5 O A '- 9 ,,f3,'v6qCef6f-'.55e,AvOi.gxcgggxafwa xbQN,iXY333,x6ga Qizpxg -:Tig - '25 - Y- O cf' O , . xlfte' 'ia' 610 OL CY 99 05' . -06 X201 0 X-1? pw N-S0 196 59. re A 1 ,Agia do C3 ef O Ni' re 40 x, -Q6 .,b f aft goth YO Kyo .SOO ,546 MCMA J DQR- Q6 D65 1,41 ieove' Q 3 rr WQGY' vie to is 6l wO't'gvfe5 we f 52' O X001 Nr- C 8 -42 at . .eq f W ff' Oh' ..Q. G X0 eat 290' K COT 4 Qi N931 wang ae, 15' ,569 xxx X558 ,X co f 0 nf, Ya 65 6 'vo 4,5 ot v 1- r -. -w- ,,V ' , ,,, 1a 0' fr QQ ofa- 6 is JO 5- 1' fiv of 690. fin 1 wfffl' NO di V -wfm wi' write- Woo ew 3, Q0 K Q Goff' ii red? any we 5 bo 9 . Y' '6 5 ,xx ik' Civlx '45 U09 ' 5' X we oct V- X03 . Xa' '09 '00 0536. Jofa i ,CNT 'i V 'XYZ' KW , JO 29 'Wiof 'Kp' W . egflfei 'o 'fl' 'NO O' 6:2 O ma is 300' Q -2- Oi We 1626- ffl?-i3ffC'pO'i ii w, 66 L SQL' 16314 X5 3' i 51 Q, K' so 21196 A of 2765 of X Q 3. XO px? Y, MQ' g Q, - n ,fy 'gi zygko cgx -QW , 5 - Q g QOQ. 36' -35, 379- 0,6 left eiigvewif. wid wi oi 19 0 do 5eQV0f5ef'X0S,3W ev-Qi Miz' fe be :eo if o X QLCXCS eve' gre? X, 'VO 5,5 29 we Gorda' PSQOCKX 'Jia 23:5 i'g500f9f.05 65626 6,53 0 f' ,IQ-A L 30 ' Q . ,xx -rg, H Q Q- X C+ 39 . 5 Q' .bf nf? 463 0 'KNSXJ ww' yi? X Ati' - Oli' '50 . Q X Q0 56 VX ' 5 gif- ,105 X93 . 'iv cy 'LYS fro 'Y C' 30 6 12 S YW' GN Yi .-39 Q 'ob ov ow 2' - GOC' QQ! O 569' Q, xv Q0 aff 'ofii A5 999 ex O 'eflb 22' 6 x, io Sf Q5 f 9 ' ' Q of cf W 6 6 . off ,vi Q36 6? ei ' , U ' 90 N aide veg 99 ei, CSMQYQZQQQV' W ll -New YW ew . L- 9 . 1 f ' 'e i . 5 C e - Q l VL 9YLOYf'xf?Xigo6YGQx39X'Xeg966 iO3NOKXiea9vigx,'f 5504026 Oi 'YGQXVQ 53 nf: ai' GO xg '6 W6 9,0 ' KDS C, ill ra dv' 'VO QA R91 xx 6 , 'X JYY3 0 - 'S C 'Xfl 0 6 '30 E1 Qi' .Xt new 0 . Y fit QW 4 . 9 wt 0Gq.e,eiacx,O is yx,6exd,,Q f Oi Xexgxggtgggge, 6 83:3-66' S593 COXFSAXX 5 f J .599 X20-2' . qivfxg fo . .Q 5x0-3' 9 . no 'Q be Qtr

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HISTORY OF THE U. S. S. BORIE DD 70-4j The United States Ship BORIE QDD. 704j, second destroyer to bear the name, was built in Kearny, New jersey and commissioned in the New York Navy Yard on 21 September 1944. After shakedown she sailed for San Diego via the Canal Zone, and thence to Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok and Saipan, where she joined Task Group 94.9 in preparation for the shore bombardment of Iwo Jima. ' After this brief action, during which the iirst of many enemy planes was downed by the BORIE's five-inch batteries, she joined the famed Task Force 58 and participated in the first strike by a fast carrier task force against the Japanese home islands. After several more engagements within sight of Japan including the first surface foray into Tokyo Bay since the beginning of the war, the BORIE was struck by the last successful kamikaze plane, during the final bombardment of Honshu and Kyushu, in August 1945. Casualties were extremely heavy, yet four more suicide pilots were downed consequently. After emergency repairs at Saipan the BORIE returned to the States in February 1946 for ten months of rest, and then she saw service as a Des-Lant Gunnery School Ship and as a Caribbean area training ship, for sixteen months. In September of 1949 the BOHIE joined the U. S. SIXTH Fleet in European waters, and was then detached for a pleasant good will tour of the British Isles and Scandinavia which included a seldom-taken trip north through the 'Inner Leads' and across the Arctic Circle to Narvik. Stopping at many of the picturesque Mediterranean ports en route, the BORIE arrived back in Norfolk in late January 1950. A year after leaving for the Mediterranean the BORIE once more headed for the Far East - this time to Korea as a unit of the United Nations Blockading and Patrol Force. BORIE alone supported the landing of the Army's SEVENTH Division at Iwon, Korea, and her secondary activities during this tour were many and diversified. In Korea the BORIE continued the splendid record commenced upon her arrival in the Pacific in 1945, and it can be said that DD 704 carried onthe fighting tradition established by her predecessor, DD 215, who battled to a victorious death by rarnming a Nazi U-Boat in the North Atlantic in 1943. In the summer of 1950, after having returned once more to Norfolk, the BORIE entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a modernizing and much-needed overhaul. Since leaving the yards BORIE has been employed in local operations in the Norfolk-Cape Hatteras area and she received refresher training Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In August of 1952, with a new but well-trained crew, BORIE once more got underway for the Mediterranean, where she is presently operating under ComDesDiv 22 as a unit of the powerful U. S. SIXTH Fleet.

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. ' 4 ? I Q CDR. W. H. MACK. FORMER CAPTAIN LCDR. R T. RUBLE, EXECUTIVE OFFICER LT. A. L. MOORE, oPIaRA'I1oNs OFFICER LT. G. E, DOWLINC, CUNNERY OFFICER LT. T. K. IVES, NAvIC.AT0R LT -IG' J' H' DUNLEVY' SUPPLY 0H CE LTJG. D. R. HAYES, ENGINEERING oI'I'Ic.IiII