Brown (DD 546) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1951

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WORLD WIR II 1 The U.S.S. BROWN was launched 21 February 1943, from the Son Pedro Terminal Island Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Company and was named in honor of Quartermaster George Brown, U.S. Navy. He first entered naval service on board the United States Schooner ENTERPRISE, as a seaman, at Malta on 8 July 1803, end in November of tliat same year, seaman George Brown was promoted to Quartermaster. He volunteered and took part in the expedition which entered the harbor of Tripoli on 16 February 1804, and destroyed the former U.S. Frigate PHILADELPHIA. The BROWN was sponsored by Mrs. Claude 0. Kell, wife of U.S. Navy Captain Kell, at tfie commissioning ceremonies on 10 July 1943. While the home shipyard was Mare Island, California, and the home port was San Diego, California, the BROWN was fitted out at the Naval Operating Base, Terminal Island, from 10 July to 29 July 1943. The first shakedown training cruise ran from 29 July to 26 August 1943. In September of that same year, 1943, the BROWN reported for duty and was assigned to the F ifth F leet. During assignment to the Fifth Fleet, the BROWN participated in the following raids or engagements with the enemy: Nauru Island — 8 December 1943 Kavieng Harbor — 25 December 1943 to 4 January 1944 Assault and capture of Majuro and Kwajalein Atolls — 29 January to February 1944 Truk in the Caroline Islands — 17 February 1944 Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Marianas - February 1944 Palau, Yap and Woloai - 30 March to 2 April 1944 Ponape Island — 1 May 1944 On 7 May 1944, Commander Thomas H. Copeman, U.S. Navy, then commanding officer of the BROWN, was presented the Silver Star Medal and cited in the name of the President of the United States, as follows: For conspicous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as the commanding officer of a destroyer attached to a carrier task group supporting the assault forces engaged in the occupation of the Gilbert Islands during the period from 10 to 30 November 1943. His ship assisted in the repulse of enemy air attacks upon the task group during the evenings of 25 and 26 November. On 28 November 1943 while on detached duty with another destroyer of the same task group, his ship was the objective of re- peated attacks by enemy torpedo bombers from 0633 to 0643 hours. These attacks were resolutely made. By vigorous offensive fire from his ship, Two enemy aircraft were certainly destroyed. Three torpedoes were launched at his ship, which, by skillful maneuvering, he evaded. His outstanding courage, skill, determination, and devotion to duty were in keeping with ttie highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. This speech was used by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Navy, in awarding the above citation to Commander Copeman. The U.S.S. BROWN went on to build up its reputation through the following

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L. B. Gerdes RD2 STiFF DEDICniOl )i4 L. M. Clark S0G2 .X W. R. Baaumont PNSN This book is d«dicof«d to the officsrs ond crews who have served, and are now serving, aboard the U.S.S. BROWN. It is because of their courage and willingness to stomp out the enemies of our United States that has made this ship a strong unit in the fleets of Uncle Sam ' s Navy.



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engogemenfs with ttie enemy in the Pacific: Marcus Island - 19 May 1944 Wake Island - 23 May 1944 First battle of the Philippine Sea - 19 June 1944 Assault and capture of Guon, Saipan and Tinian - 3 July to 6 August 1944 Iwo Jima - 4 July 1944 Yap Island - 26 July 1944 Participated in raiding operations against enemy naval and merchant ships in the area northwest of Chichi Jima - August 1944 The following general information was noted on 10 July 1944, tfie first anniversary of the commissioning of the U.S.S. BROWN; Total miles steamed: 95,375 Total fuel oil consumed: 5,571 ,804 gallons Time spent at sea was 245 days Crossed the equator on twelve occasions Rescued eleven U.S. aviators from crashed planes Rescued one man overboard from another ship Captured seventeen Japanese survivors Expended 1,640 rounds of ammunition In the latter stages of World War Two, the BROWN took port in the Philippine Liberation from 6 to 24 September 1944, second battle of the Philippine Seo on the 25 and 26th of September, Luzon 5 November to 25 November 1944, picking up survivors of the destroyers HULL and MONAHAN which capsized during a typhoon in December 1944, Okinawa Gunto 1 April 1945, radar picket stations off Okinawa, and was credited with downing twelve enemy aircraft end missing seven torpedoes fired at the ship. On 17 May 1945, the BROWN was officiolly credited with a total of seventeen enemy aircraft, one enemy tanker and one enemy destroyer. She was owarded the Navy Unit Citation for picket duty off Okinawa, Some time later, in the month of August 1946, the ship was decommissioned. KOREy umm This, then, is the story of the USS BROWN - brought out of retirement for Operation Pacific. Little did anyone foresee, in the foil of 1946, that she would be called upon again so soon to answer the threat of another aggressor. September and October of 1950 saw the BROWN shifted from her berth among the silent ships ot Long Beoch, California, to another dock for the tedious pro- cess of re-activation. The cobwebs of four years had to be brushed away which meant hard work ond plenty of it. Back in 1943, production of ships was what counted. This time the problem was re-fitting those some fighting ships, almost forgotten in the ghost-like yards of the mothball fleet. As more and more men reported aboard, with their Novy blues fresh from mothballs, too, the work of getting tfie ship ready for commissioning progressed more ropidly. There were many questions to be answered and many problems to be squared away as the ship and the crew became adusted to new routines. Finolly, in the midst of dock

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