Lang (DE 1060) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS LANG CDE-l0607 is the sixth ship of the KNOX DE-lO52 class to be built. She is designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and to this end, is equipped with the most modern of long range radar and sonar detection systems, tube and rocket launched homing torpedoes, and a 5-inch, 54 caliber rapid fire gun. Future additions will include variable depth sonar, manned helicopter capability, self-'defense missile system, and active electronic counter-measure equipment. LANG is a jack of many trades and a master of each. She is well equipped to operate as a member of Hunter-Killer CHUKJ groups. These units combine the best anti-submarine warfare, search, tracking, and attack capabilities of air and surface forces in coordinated action to locate and destroy enemy submarines. She can also operate independently as a search attack unit. The LANG is able to escort convoys as they transit the ocean sea lanes and will function as an anti-submarine warfare screen for amphibious and underway replenishment operations. She can also serve on surveillance missions by acting as an early warning unit against enemy intrusion. Finally, she can support friendly forces ashore by acting as an off-shore gunfire support unit.

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.V ,l 1 l i i l ul l l ii li I ll li , il i ii ll i i l l l i ! I l I i i ll I in 3 1 .i i. i ii l l 3 il ii I il i. l I. is il l i .l i 1 l l ,l l l l l ir l l I i -m-x-1 f - ' ' The first LANG CDD-3991 was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydocking Company, Kearny, New jersey. Her keel was laid 5 April l937. She was launched 27 August I938 and commissioned in New York Navy- Yard 30 March l939. LANG had a length overall of 34l feetg extreme beam, 35 feet, 6 inches, standard displacement of l,850 tonsg mean draft of I0 feet, 9 inches, a designed speed of 38.5 knots, and a designed complement of 9 officers and Vl75 men. She was originally armed with four 5-inch .38 caliber guns, four .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine guns, and sixteen 2l-inch torpedo tubes. LANG CDD-399JVblazed a spectacular trail through World War ll, sustaining onlygone twoQinch hole in her hull for all her action. LANG participated in nearly every major Pacific campaign and lived up to the name she bore. She encountered the enemy many times., served on numerous patrols, stood guard and escort duties, steamed over mines, rescued the crew of .fthe sinking destroyer O'BRlEN, and saved 33 merchant seamen and three downed pilots from death in the sea. ln the Solomons, Gilberts, Marianas, and Philippines she bore her share and morevof the grim drive toward victory, earning the Philippine Republic's Presidential Unit Citation. Off Okinawa she braved kamikazes and weather for a continuous 92 days. For her efforts she was awarded ll battle stars. After a short but glorious career, LANG was ,decommissioned on October I6, l945.

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COMMANDER FREDERIC H. M. KINLEY, U. S NAVY Commander Frederic H.. M. Kinley was borniin Calcutta, India and raised in York, Pennsylvania where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Kinley, currently reside. As a graduate of York Catholic High School, he entered the United States Naval Academy in June of l95O and was graduated in the class of l954, receiving his commission as an .Ensign in the United States Navy, Commander Kinley is the nephew of former French Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Henry L. Nomy, Royal French Navy CRetiredD. Past sea assignments for Commander Kinley have included tours of duty in the destroyers USS MC GOWAN, USS BARNEY, and USSCHARLES F. ADAMS, the coastal minesweeper USS JACANA, and command of the net laying ship USS WAXSAW. One shore assignment has been to the United States Naval Postgraduate School, where he was awarded the degree of Master of Science in Physics, and another was to the Naval War College. His assignment just prior to being assigned as first commanding officer of USS LANG CDE-lO60J was in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations CStrategic Plans and Policy Divisionl at the Pentagon where he coordinated staff papers on force levels and current contingency plans with officers of the other Services and the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Additionally his duties involved frequently briefing the Chief of Naval Operations. During these various assignments, he has lived in Rhode Island, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.' ln l96l, while attending the Naval Postgraduate School, Commander Kinley married the former Priscilla Mohr of Jackson, Mississippi. Mrs. Kinley is the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. E.S. Mohr and has two brothers, Dr. John Mohr of Pearl, Mississippi and Lewis Mohr of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mrs. Kinley is a graduate of jackson's Bellhaven College, class of l956. The Kinley's have two sons, Guy Q61 and Paul CSD, and a daughter, Kara Anne C21 andare making their home in Portuguese Bend on Palos Verdes Peninsula.