Nantahala (AO 60) - Naval Cruise Book

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RADM HARRY HULL Rear Admiral HULL was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1932. After a tour of duty on board the aircraft carrier LEXINGTON, he attended submarine school at New London and thereafter served in the submarines S-22, S-31, and SKIPJACK between 1935-1939. He completed the course in ordnance engineering at the Post Graduate School at Annapolis in 1941. During World Warll, as a Commander, Admiral HULL com- manded the submarine THRESHER for three war patrols in the Pacific. For actions in the THRESHER he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Navy Commendation Medal. He was assigned to the staff of Commander Submarines Pacific as Force Torpedo and Gunn- ery Officer for the last year of the war, and received the Bronze Star for his services. After the war he was on duty at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Mary- land, for two and a half years, then became Commanding Officer of the destroyer OR- LECK. ln 1950 he was assigned to the staff of Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet as Fleet Operations Officer. He was promoted to Captain in 1951 and later commanded the ammunition ship FIREDRAKE and then the amphibious cargo transport MERRICK. In the fall of 1954 he attended the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program, then was assigned as industrial control officer of the Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D. C. He took command ofthe Regulusguided missilecruiser MACON in 1957, then became Chief of Staff to the Commander Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe lCommander SIXTH Fleetl AT THE headquarters in Naples. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1961 and returned to the United States to command the Military Sea Trans- portation Service Atlantic Area. In April 1963 he took command of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla TEN, his current assignment. A isis

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This, then, was the overall story ot a cruise: LANTMIDTRARON-64...the ships, the ports, the fun, the work. But every general story has its smaller, more personal stories...and this is the story ot the part played by our ship and the men who sailed with her...