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152 CAPTAIN ERNEST L. SCHWAB, USN COMMANDING OFFICER
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'-,-...- CAPTAIN SCHWAB ASSUMES COMMAND I8 JANUARY I932, PILOS, GREECE
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wwf M ----'f or w dl 'liisigigigga E?et:v4EEEg!7 'aww w w w.- X - ...--- NSS cZgZi65ilx.+l5f3l . 1 -- -- Captain Ernest L. Schwab, U.S. Navy, relieves as Command- ing Officer, USS Mount McKinley QAGC-71 on January 18, 1962. Captain Schwab was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 27, 1917. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and the United States Naval Academy, graduating from the latter on June 1, 1939. Captain Schwab then served as a secondary battery officer on the battleship Pennsylvania, flagship of the United States Fleet until May, 1941. From July to October of 1941, Captain Schwab was a student at the sub- marine school in New London, Connecticut. During World War 11 he made a total of nine submarine war patrols during which he served in all submarine billets. Included in these patrols were the Presidential Unit Citation patrols of USS Guardfish and the participation of USS Darter in opening the famous battle of Leyte Gulf. Following the war, Captain Schwab completed the naval war- fare course at the U.S. Naval War College at Newport, 3.1. and then returned to submarines and took command of USS Toro. In 1951, he became head of the Sonar Branch of the Bureau of Ships, and later assumed duties as head of the Electronics Planning Staff of that Bureau. From 1954 to 1956, Captain Schwab served as commanding officer of the destroyer USS Wedderburn, which participated in the Tachens evacuation in China. From 1956 to 1958, Captain Schwab at- tended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and Harvard Universities where he obtained a Master of Arts degree, a degree as Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, and passed examinations for Ph. D. in international rela- tions. Captain Schwab then served two years in the Political- Military Policy Division in OPNAV followed by fourteen months as Chief of Staff of Commander Carrier Division 20, an ASW carrier group. On January 18, 1962 he became the Commanding Officer of USS MOUNT MCKINLEY CAGC-71. ' i ..-
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