Nantahala (AO 60) - Naval Cruise Book

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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...

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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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WHAT MAKES NAN Go? fiffi-ff-W ft ...E mg ' gig- ' ,-Qi' V .,, V X43-5X it! CAPT. JOHN McLAUGHLIN Commanding Officer This is the man with the master plan ... A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Captain John McLAUGHLIN, USN, is the son of the late Joseph A. and Ada McLaughlin. He attended Loyola College in Baltimore, after which he was employed by the Pan American Oil Company. In June l94l he entered the Midshipman School at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and was commissioned an ensign on 12 September 1941. Captain McLAUGHLlN's first assignment was as first lieutenant aboard the USS KAWEAH lAO-l5l until September I943. While aboard the KAWEAH he participated in convoy operations in the North Atlantic and took part in the North African Invasion. ln Sep- tember I943 he was transferred to the USS CHIKASKIA lAO-541 and served as the ship's executive officer. Following World War ll, as a lieutenant commander, Captain MclAUGHLlN spent a year at the University of Rochester as a stu- dent. This was followed by another year as a student, this time at the Navy's General Line School, Newport, Rhode Island. J ln September i948 he returned to sea as executive officer of the destroyer USS BEATTY lDD-7561 which operated in the Atlantic and with the U. S. SIXTH Fleet in the Mediterranean. He later served GS. personnel officer at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, lllmois, and returned to sea again in l953 as navigator aboard the battleship USS IOWA IBB-6ll. Captain Mcl.AUGHl.lN was then named commanding officer of the radar picket destroyer USS WOOD lDDR-7l5l, operating again with the Atlantic and SlXTH Fleets. As. commanding officer of the USS WOOD he assisted civil authorities in saving lives and rendering other assistance in Volos, Greece, during a series of earthquakes in that city in l956. Both TO MAKE NAN GO the Prime Minister of Greece and the American Ambassador to that country commended him and his ship for the assistance pro- vided bythe WOOD. Captain McLAUGHLIN served in his first staff billet in Paris on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe lNATOl. This duty was followed in October l959 with a tour on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he held a billet in the Plans Division. Captain McLAUGHLIN continued on staff duty when in l960 he reported as Surface Operations Officer onthe staff of the Command- er, Carrier Division FOUR aboard the USS FORRESTAL ICVA-591 in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In April l962 he reported to Brooklyn, New York, as Chief ln- spector on the staff of the Commander, Military Sea Transporta- tion Service, Atlantic Area. A Q On 28 May 1964, Captain McLAUGHLIN assumed command of USS NANTAHALA lAO-601. The Captain, whose date of rank is l July l962, wears the following ribbons and medals: American De- fense, American Theater, European-African-Middle East Theater, Asiatic-Pacific Theater lwith six starsl, Philippine Liberation, Presi- dent Philippine Republic Unit Citation, Navy Occupation, World War II Victory, and National Defense. He is married to the former Miss Mariorie E. Cunningham of Middletown, New York. Mrs. Mclaughlin and their four children, Patricia, Maureen, Shawn and Mary Ellen, presently reside in Vir- ginia Beach, Virginia. ? IT: .f--Q-'M'-' A . , . . , , i'X ff3 K, S ',,,,,. '4 f ' fs 1 Z is ,Z Z 1 f .A Y' 1 f . . . 4--, X N., . 1' V , f' it L 3 , f , ,,,, N .,., ' Mf r 529155. X, f- . hey ,' -'V .L 4 J Zwg,f'f bij 7 Sy 'X . , ' Yfifwl '. . ,-.fl if ,Q ,Wg?iML.-V V'