Dewey (DLG 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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CDR Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr Commanding USS DEWEY CDLG-14-J Commander ZUMWALT was born on 29 November 1920, in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Dr. and the late Mrs. Elmo R. Zumwalt. He was valedictorian at Tulare Union High School, Tulare, California and studied for one year at Rutherford Prep School, California, before entering the Naval Academy. While at the Academy he was President of the Quarterback Society, winner ofthe Gold Watch Public Speaking contest, 1940 and 1941, company commander First Set, Regimental three striper last set, Navy candidate for Rhodes Scholarship in 1947. A member of the Class of 1943, which was graduated a year early due to the war, he subsequently advanced to the rank of Commander on February 1, 1955. He served aboard the USS PHELPS QDD-3601 as Assistant Engineer, USS ROBINSON QDD-5625 as CIC Officer, USS SAUFLEY CDD-4655 and USS ZELLERS QDD-7775 as Executive Officer, USS TILLS QDE-7481 as Commanding Officer, and USS WISCONSIN QBB-645 as Navigator. While on board the ROBINSON, Com- mander ZUMWALT aided in the capture of the Japanese gunboat HIJMS ATAKA in the mouth of the Yangtze before the surrender of Japan. He found the chart of Jap minefields in the Yangtze on board. Getting permission to go through to Shanghai, he took the first U.S. flag up the river. He established contact with Rear Admiral M.E. Miles and a small force which had been with the Chinese guerilla forces and helped disarm the Japanese military in Shanghai. From the WISCONSIN he attended the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, as a student in the Command and Staff Course. Following this he had a tour of duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel after which he assumed command of the USS ARNOLD J. ISBELL QDD-869j. He then saw duty again with the Bureau of Naval Personnel until December, 1957, when he was transferred to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Navy for Personnel as Naval Aide and Special Assistant. In September, 1959, he reported as the Prospective Commanding Officer of the USS DEWEY QDLG-145. Commander ZUMWALT is married to the former Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche of Harbin, Manchuria, whom he met in Shanghai after World War II. They have two sons and two daughters and presently reside in Norfolk, Virginia.

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TECHNICAL EVALUATION ff u.s.s. DEWEY KDLG-147 This message is written to a very select fraternity, these fortunate enough to have been chosen to bring to sea-going life the world's first guided missile destroyer leader. Given a remarkable ship, it is neverthe- less, you, the officers and men of the USS DEWEY, who breathed vigor, vibrancy, performance and esprit into her inanimate form. Looking back over the wonderful, intensive months of pre-commissioning, outfitting, shakedown, post-shakedown overhaul, and evaluation operations one can see in the mind's eye the giant strides forward your pioneering effort and loyalty have produced. As l have watched the miraculous manner in which this ship, a quantum increase in our nation's seapower, has been brought into the fleet, l have been keenly aware, as your skipper, that I am living the supreme period of my life. After my associations with you, after the records you have set, and the goals you have won, there can be only anti-climax in the balance of my years. God bless you all. E. QU ALT, Jr. Commander, USN Commanding I