John Paul Jones (DDG 32) - Naval Cruise Book

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l Commander Robert Wfard Hayler, Jr., son of Vice Admiral R. VV. Hayler, U. S. Navy fRet.5, and Nola Birch Hayler, was born in Muncie, Indiana, November 29, 1918. He was graduated from Rogers High School, Newport, Rhode Island in 1935 and then attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He had a year's enlisted service in the U. S. Naval Reserve, and entered the U. S. Naval Academy in 1937, graduating with the Class of 1941. Ensign Hayler was ordered to the USS Fann- ing QDD 3855, a Pacific Fleet destroyer. For four years, during Mforld War II, he served in this same vessel, from. junior Officer to Gunnery Officer, and finally as Executive Officer. Dur- ing this period the- USS Farmz'ng participated in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands campaign and was a unit of the Task Force which launched the Doolittle Tokyo Raid. This vessel served with the British Fleet on their initial offensive operations in the -Indian Ocean, and acted as escort for President Roosevelt during his 1944 inspection trip to the Pacific and Alaskan waters. She also participated in the Philippine Islands campaign and in actions around Iwo Jima. ' In May of 1945, Lieutenant Hayler com- missioned the USS Gearing QDD 7105 as Execu- tive Officer, and then in 1946 commanded the USS Harmon QDE 6785. In 1947, Lieutenant Commander Hayler was ordered to the USS I-Iuntington Q-CL1075 in the Mediterranean Fleet as Navigator and Operations Officer. In 1948 he was ordered to duty in the Bureau of Naval Personnel where he served in the Offi- cer Assignment Section, and later in the Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel. During this period he was also assigned to additional duty as Aide at the White House. In 1951 commander Hayler took command of the destroyer USS Goodrich QDD 8315 and made two cruises in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet. In 1953 he attended the Armed Forces Staff College and in 1954 was ordered to the Navy Department where he served as Aide to the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney. g In September 1955, Commander Hayler was ordered as Prospective Commanding Officer of the new destroyer john Paul jones QDD 9325, then building in Bath, Maine. He assumed command on the commissioning of this vessel on 5 April 1956 Commander Hayler is married to the for mer Barbara Englund Silliman of Bangor Maine. His brother Lieutenant -Commander William B. Hayler, USN, is now serving on the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet ff K5 J 3 . J ' X 1 I WX A 19.5, QR 5 1, ia

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- .lm-4 -.. .J-. . ' ,- I V GUN N ERY OFFICER Our Gunnery Officer, Lieutenant David G. FOXVVELL, is a combined product of the Nav Cad program and the U. S. Naval Academy. Emerging from the latter in l947, he served suc- cessively aboard the USS Orleck QDD 8865, C. P. Cecil QDDR 8355, Tolzee CAM 2885 and Flamingo QAMS 115. After this, he subjected himself to a combination of a postgraduate-MIT. course, winning a Master's degree in Physics. This proved most useful during his next duty assign- ment, in the gunnery department of the USS Antietam QCVS 365. Aboard john Paul jones, he has been most active, with a high batting average in summary courts and has more cancelled firing schedules to his credit than any other DesLant Gunnery Officer. A determined foe of ammunition off-loading, he is characterized by the old Anglo-Saxon policy of Unload through the muzzle. Witness the yard work list for aluminum welding. Mr. Foxwell's wife and three children make their home in Holbrook, Mass. 1 lv- 7 - OPERATIONS OFFICER Our Operations Oflicer, Lieutenant Raymond A. Komorowski, brings a wealth of experience in all levels of tactical struggling. Commissioned in 1945 at Northwestern University, he went to the USS England QAPD 415, later to the USS Crosley QAPD 375, LST 1191, LSM 341, the USS Columbus QCA 745, the USS Bordelon QDDR 8815, and the USS Gearing QDD 7105. Reporting to Newport for duty as prospective Operations Officer, he proved himself most adept at getting his Henry J out oft the snow, getting his Henry out of the mud, getting his Henry J out of the rain, and similar Worthwhile tasks. He has also been our Public Information Officer, arranging excellent press coverage of the commissioning, the Kirkcudbright trip, the shakedown cruise, and the arrival of new maga- zines aboard ship. Mr. K's ball and ch... ah, wife and three children live in Commodore Perry Village, New-'