Borie (DD 704) - Naval Cruise Book

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in August 1953, assumed command of Coastal Patrol Ship, U.S.S. WINNEMUCCA LPC-11455. In October 1954 he was assigned to the staff of Commander, Service Forces Pacific. He reported aboard U.S.S. MUNRO QDE442y as Executive Officer in February 1958 and assumed command 27 June 1959. Thereafter, upon completion of a one year course in Operations Research at the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California, he returned to the Naval Academy in July 1961 as an instructor in Naval Operations. In July 1963 he reported aboard the U.S.S. LEXINGTON QCVS-165 as Engineer Officer. He assumed his third command when he took command of U.S.S. BORIE QDD-7045 on 15 May 1965. He has participated in amphibious oper- ations at Pohang Dong, Inchon and Wonson, Korea, in screening, bombardment and blockading tasks with the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and in training and patrol missions in the Formosan Straits. At other times he has made surveillance cruises throughout the U.N. Trust Territories, Islands of the Marshalls, Gilberts, Marianas, Carolines and Bonin-Volcano groups. He is married to the former Harriet A. Bingham of Hawthorne, New Jersey, and they have three children. C UMMAN DIN G OFFICER RICHARD STRUYK COMMANDER UNITED STATES NAVY Commander Struyk, a native of Paters on, New Jersey, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 21 May 1943 and completed recruit training at USNRTC, Newport, R.I. Approx- imately one year later, he entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, having been competitively selected from a group of other enlisted candidates. He graduated, and was commissioned Ensign, U.S. Navy on 4 June 1948. He has served on various ships: Light Cruiser U.S.S. PORTSMOUTH QCL-1023, Attack Cargo Ship U.S.S. OGLETHORPE QAKA-1003, Escort Destroyer U.S.S. JENKINS QDDE-4475, and

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I Q Z .ff nf G 4 van-aa.M..ar U.S.S. BORIE CDD-7045, second in the line of famous fighting destroyers to bear the name of a former Secretary of the Navy, was built by the Federal Shllllbillldlng and Drydock Company and was commissioned in the New York Navy Yard on 21 September 1944. y BORIE first saw action soon after commissioning. On 24 January 1945 Wfllle approaching Iwo Jima the first of many Japanese aircraft to meet a similar fate tasted a salvo from BORIE's guns and crashed in flames. On 26 .January 1945, BORIE arrived at Ulithi atoll and joined destroyer Squadron Slxty two and the now famous task group 58. With carriers Bunker Hill- and Essex, battleships New Jersey and South Dakota, and numerous cruisers and destroyers, BORIE participated in the first strike by a fast carrier task force against the Japanese Homelands in support of the landing in Iwo Jima. After a brief rest period at Leyte, in the Philippines, BORIE returned HOI'1fh with the fast carrier task force to help deliver the final crushing blow against the Japanese. After a series of very heavy air strikes, the squadron aCC0mDan1ed Cruiser Division 18 in a shore bombardment of Nojima Saki on Honshu and made a daring anti-shipping sweep into Tokyo Bay, the first U.S. surface vessels to enter these waters since the war began. On 9 August 1945, during the final bombardment of Kyushu and Honshu, gm-5322-He.Se kamikaze , plane hit the ship. This suicide plane, a Val , fy as ed into the bridge and started a large fire which was fed by the plane's I-le . 500 pound bomb carried by the plane exploded on the starboard bow 51191101113 the fOI'.W-ard guns by blast and shrapnel. The majority ofthe per- sonnel on the bridge were killed or wounded, the ship lost steering control and the use of the radar, two thirds of the firepower was gone, Four more '4-albuQ'1-yt kamikazes , using the same tactics as the first, were shot down before they reached the target. BORIE is believed to have been the last kamikaze victim of the war. BORIE arrived in Korean waters on 13 October 1950, and spent 77 con- secutive days operating at sea before entering port. During that period BORIE supported the initial Wansan operation and patrolled the entire coast of North Korea. From the Korean War until April 1950, BORIE busied herself in the Mediterranean and Atlantic when assigned to the Sixth and Second fleets, respectively. Since then BORIE has had a variety of duties. Working with Project Mercury, she picked up Sam , the space monkey af h' h'storic flight out over the Atlantic. BORIE has also operated with ter is 1 such top anti-submarine groups as Task Groups, Alfa, Bravo, and Task Group 83.4. ' The fall of 1961 saw BORIE enter Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia for an extensive FRAM overhaul Cfleet rehabilitation and moderni- zationl. Improvements had been made in her ASW capabilities, overall ' ds l material readiness, and general habitability when BORIE left the yar n June 1962. 26 Au st BORIE departed for Northern Europe to serve as host On gu ship for Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's Scandanavian trip. After visits l d h to Copenhagen, Denmark, Turku, Finland, and Portsmouth, Eng an , s e arrived in Norfolk on 27 September 1963. This summer BORIE returned to the North Atlantic with visits to Norway, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, England and Ireland. Bl 1

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This cruise book is more than a mere record of events and people. To those of us who took BORIE through overhaul, refresher training and blue-gold operations, our assignment to ASWFORLANT and the EASTLANT cruise during the summer of 1966 was the frosting on the cake . We were doing our primary job .... ASW. From the beginning we were determined not to rest on BORIE's previously earned laurels, but to write our own chapter in the history of this fine ship, a chapter that would equal or surpass any other. Our determination and our accomplishments fill this book: the hard work, long hours, and team spirit that made us a sharp unit, the lighter moments when we enjoyed a good laugh together, the special occasions when We put our best foot forward. We made many friends abroad and displayed a fine image of our NAVY overseas. I am pleased and proud to have been your Captain during this chapter. We did our jobs well - like our Squadron motto - SECOND TO NONE .