Mispillion (AO 105) - Naval Cruise Book

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--,,.--,-,.-..,,., ..--d.-.. - 'U 3' OUR CAPTAIN Captain Henry G. Munson started his career in the United States Navy as an enlisted man in 1927. ln June of 1928 he earned an appointment to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and graduated there as a commissioned Ensign' in 1932. Ensign Munson was ordered to the battleship USS Virginia, and then to the supply ship USS Bridge where he received promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade in June 1935. After serving aboard the destroyer USS Ellis from May to De- cember 1936, LTJG Munson was ordered to the Naval Submarine School in New London, Conn. for the submarine training which was to play an important part in his career. Upon graduation from sub school in 1937, he was ordered to the USS Porpoise, the first of the fleet type subs, and served in that ship until ordered to a tour of shore duty at the U.S. Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor, T.H. in June 1939. After being promoted to Lieutenant in January 1940, he served as Executive Officer aboard the USS Sculpin, a late model fleet submarine. January 1942, shortly after the outbreak of World War ll, found LT. Munson as commanding officer of the USS S-38, a small patrol submarine seeing action in the southwest Pacific. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in July and to Commander in October 1942. ln January 1943, Commander Munson was ordered to the U.S. Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he became the commanding officer of the fleet submarine USS Crevalle when it was commissioned in June 1943. ln March 1944 he was ordered to take command of Submarine Relief Crew No. 1 based in Perth, West Australia, and three months later ig was back to the briny deep as commanding officer of the submarine USS Rasher. After serving first as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and then as Officer in Charge of the U.S. Naval Submarine School in New London, Conn. until November 1946, he was ordered to command Submarine Division .71 where he super- vised the first actual guided missile firings from submarines. ln January 1948, he resumed his destroyer duties as commandin officer of the USS Myles C. Fox, a radar picket destroyer operating with Task Force 38 in the West Pacific. g ln April 1949 Commander Munson was ordered to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Maryland for a co of instruction in advanced science, and then transferred to the California lnstitute of Technology at Pasadena in June 1950 Ugse ating from that school with the degree of Master of Science in Physics in June 1952. ln January 1951, while attendin tli gg, ij- ornia Institute of Technology, he was promoted to the rank of Captain. 9 e GM' Captain Munson assumed command of the USS Mispillion in August 1952, and served as ou 1' duty in Japan-Korean waters until he was relieved in July 1953. r Old Mon for G fun four of

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Sivgrrr tif if ' ' Mfg 4fU-5i. .1-Jo',s'.- -,011- fs'4'? . ,,1,f I qaxtgig ,cf 4, V ,. Us-MV I - 9 .'-'U'1fi'.-'V-XZ' '721' 'Y V ifsfs-ff We 1-.. Zj?y'5ifmfvziP - f. ' :'2. eszwrsr sz. f- r Q, yuf?rgfi4 ' fi - ' ' 5 ifffifiiefw 'ffffifhfiifr ' We , ,I vgfczvbx ,135 . . , , . 7 y ,sy-qw! A I se. W-.47 W- wrfff if Q vw-v 5+ ww www' .4s. .,,Z2Z'Z..,, fy ijafq Z. .WN wx Arek 'ff ,1 f f Ty! ,. , L,,. I-1:4241 OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICER Our Executive Officer, Lieutenant Commander John Taylor Ziegweid, was born October 26, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, Anton B. and Julia T. Ziegweid, later moved to Hinsdale, Illinois, where John attended Hinsdale High School. After his high school graduation, Mr. Ziegweid attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1938. He went on to further his education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachuttes, and then at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Throughout his college life, Mr. Ziegweid was active in basketball, boxing, and golf. For the most part, Mr.gZiegweid's family have been Army men. His great-grandfather, Colonel William Nigh, U.S. Army served on General Sherman's staff, and his brother, Julian A. Ziegweid, was an infantry officer seeing action in numerous cam- paigns in the Pacific during World War II. Fortunately for us, however, Mr. Ziegweid chose a Naval career and commenced by enlisting in the Naval Reserve in 1940. A year later, in 1941, he was commissioned Ensign in the Reserve, with promotions to the ranks of Lieutenant fiunior grade? and Lieutenant coming in the suceeding two years. Mr. Ziegweid was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Reserve in October, 1945, and received a similar commission in the regular Navy in 1946. During World War ll, Mr. Ziegweid served aboard mine-sweepers from 1941 to 1943, and then as Assistant Harbor Defense and Operations Officer in New Caledonia from 1943 to 1945. In 1945 Lcdr. Ziegweid was Operations Duty Officer for the Southern California Sector of the Western Sea Frontier. From 1946 to the time he came aboard the Mispillion as Executive Officer, he worked on various Intelligence assignments in the United States and Europe. His Naval duties have earned him the following campaign and service medals: American Defense, American Theater, Pacific Theater, World War ll Victory, China Ser- vice iextendedif United Nations, Korean Defense and the Navy Occupation medal. Mr. Ziegweid is a member of the Harvard Club of Chicago, Knights of Columbus, Nazareth Council, Illinois, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Alpha Delta, and Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Ziegweid's wife the former Barbara Fahnauer, and theirlfive-year old son, John Anton, reside in National City, California.