Newman K Perry (DDR 883) - Naval Cruise Book

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- H m- ,,. USS N K PERRY KDDR 8835 Q AW ' FLEET Posr oFFlcE NEW YORK NEW YORK IN REPLY REFER 'ro Q, 5 ' ' rsni K ..,,xxxyxxx ' -T 9 , 545' '0 ' ' 1 Q Q . Q 0 xl f Q l +1 . 1+ I ' :T 1 I vi ,, 1 I 4 Q I O . . - Q! x ' 0: xxxXXKxs5'... SHIPS MEMORANDUM: This is the picture story of a destroyer and her crew on foreign deploy- II1C1'1t. Only a seaman realizes to what great extent a ship reflects the person- ality and ability of her crew. To a landsman this is not understandable and sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend, but it is so. lt is so, because a ship derives her reputation from the skill with which she is handled, and the dispatch and proficiency in which she carries out her assigned operations. The NEWMAN K. PERRY never missed an operation and was the smartest destroyer during her Mediterranean deployment, 28 January l960 to 31 August 1960. VVe the crew can take great pride-because it was so. VVell done shiprnates. Wagf Owen A. ROBERTS Commander, U.S. Navy Commanding

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QQMMANDING oPP1cER CDR OVVEN A. ROBERTS, USN Commander Owen A. Roberts, U. S. Navy, assumed command of the USS NEVV MAN K. PERRY QDDR-8835 on 29 April 1960. Previous to this assignment, Commander Roberts had been Head of the Section for Guided Missile Training in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D. C-. He was Executive Officer of the USS y VOGELGESANG- QDD-8-625 Wh1Ch operated with the fast carrier forces of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and European waters prior to his assignment to the Bureau of Naval Personnel. During World War II, Commander Roberts served aboard the destroyers DECATUR and TAUSSIG in the Atlantic and Pacific, and early in the Korean conflict he was Executive Officer of an LST which took part in landings on the coasts of Korea. Commander Roberts is in his seventeenth year of naval service and in his fourth assign- ment to destroyers. He has also served aboard two LST's, the guided missile developmental ship USS NORTON SOUND QAVM-lj, and as Assistant Operations Officer of Task GTQU-P 7.1 LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY during certain nuclear tests at the P2lC1f1C Proving Grounds and at the Nevada Test Site for which the Presidential Citation W2lS d d h awar e t e Laboratory and Commander Joint Task Force Seven personal commendation t0 Commander Roberts. He is a graduate of Loyola U niversity, New Orleans, Louisiana, the U.S. Naval .Post grad- uate School in Monterey, California, the U.S. Army Guided Missiles School, Fort Bliss, Texas, and the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk,Virginia. I . While in the Washington Area, Commander Roberts was active in local groups and CIYIC affairs. He is an active member of the McLean Estates Civic Association, the MCLCHH Little League the Boy Scouts of America and S h I - 1 ,- t. Jo n's .Catholic Church Men's Council. He 1S married to the former Mary Medling of jackson, Tennessee and the father of two sons and two daughters. P

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COMMANDER DESTROYER SQUADRON SIX I s CAPTAIN ROBERT S. MANDELKORN, USN U A Captain Robert S. MANDELKORN, USN, relieved Captain R. R. GREEN,.USN, as Commander Destroyer Squadron SIX on 28 March 1960 at Beirut, Lebanon. Prioruto assuming command of Destroyer Squadron SIX Captain MANDELKORN was Commanding Officer, USS MISSISSINEVVA QAO-1445, Flagship, Service Force SIXTH Fleet. . Captain MANDELKORN entered the Naval Academy in July 1931 and received his commission as Ensi n USN in une 1 first tour of duty was aboard the USS PORT- Naval Academy as Assistant Plebe Football g , , J 935. His LAND QCA-335, after which he returned to the Coach. From November 1939 to October 1940 he served successively aboard the USS ELLET QDD-3985 and the USS MASON QDD-19'1j as Gunnery Officer and lst Lieutenant. Captain MANDELKORN was then assigned to the USS CALIFORNIA QBB-440. He reported aboard as a Lieutenant fjunior gradej a year prior to Pearl Harbor, and spent the duration of World War II serving as Air Defense Officer and Gunnery Officer of that vessel. The CALIFORNIA participated in various naval engagements during the war including Pearl Harb r th M ' ' ' ' 0 , e arlanas, Leyte Gulf, Lingayen Gulf, Okinawa and Japan. Following World War II Captain MANDELKORN returned to the Naval Academy as head of the Committee of 2 f c Officer Instructors of the Ordnance and Gunnery Department. In July 1949 he assumed Command of USS CORRY QDD 8175, operating in the AtlaHUC and Mediterranean until July 1951. He next served at the Office, Chief of Naval Operat1OHS HS A . . sslstant to the Head of Surface Operations Branch Fleet Operations Followin this in Jul , - S . V 1953 Captain MANDELKORN was transferred to the West Coast to serve as Readiness Officer on the Staff of Comma d C ' - ' ' ' n er ru1sersDestroyers Force, Pacific, until June 1955. In July 1955 Captain MANDELKORN assumed command of Destroyer Division 12 operating in the Pacific, and d ' ' serve there until July 1957 when he attended the Senior Coursfl of the Naval War College. After completing the course at the Naval War College Captain MANDELKORN ' ' was assigned to the Staff of the Naval War College, serving there until assum- ing command of the USS MISSISSINEWA QAO-1445 in July 1959. .Captain.MANDELKORN is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore G. MANDELKORN Of PCOYIH, Illinois. He is married to the former Eugenia MILLER of Annapolis, Maryland, and they have three boys Phili Da 'd h . . - pe V1 , t e oldest is an NROTC student at the University Of Pennsylvania, and 1S presentl t k' ' ' I ' ' y a mg a years leave of absence to study at the University Of Rome. The two b I' ' ' ' younger oys are residing with Mrs. MANDELKORN in Naples.