Phillip (DD 498) - Naval Cruise Book

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'A1. 1 'x' ' I' ' -. - P. 'Y - I A - XECUTIVE OFFICER f 0 Z Z COMMANDER PHILIP H. EDMUNDS COMMANDER EDMUNDS WAS COMMISSIONED THROUGH THE NROTC I PROGRAM IN 1952 AFTER ATTENDING MARQUETTE AND PURDUE UNIVERSITIES AND IN-ITIALLY SERVED ABOARD USS BAIROKO CCVE 1151 . IN 1956, AFTER A TOUR OF DUTY AT THE NROTC UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, HE REPORTED TO USS ROCKERIDGE CAPA 2281 AS ENGINEER OFFICER. HE NEXT SERVED ABOARD USS ERNEST G. SMALL CDDR aaa! . IN 1960 LCDR EDMUNDS .IOINED THE STAFF OF COMMANDER SOUTH ATLANTIC FORCE. HE THEN ATTENDED US NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, RECEIVING A BS DEGREE IN ENGINEERING ELECTRONICS IN 1964 AND SUBSEQUENTLY COMPLETED A ONE YEAR TRAINING PROGRAM IN NUCLEAR POWER PRIOR TO REPORTING TO USS PHILIP. COMMANDER EDMUNDS LEFT PHILIP IN NOVEMBER TO ASSUME THE BILLET OF ENGINEER OFFICER AEOARD THE USS VALLEY FORGE ILPH ab, CDR EDMUNDS IS MARRIED TO THE 'FORMER MISS PHYLLIS DAVIES OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN, AND THEY HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, KATHLEEN AND ANN MARIE.

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CAPTAIN ZIMMERMAN WAS COMMISSIONED IN AUGUST 1945 AFTER ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MIDSHIPMEN SCHOOL AND WAS ORDERED TO USS HUGH PURVIS IDD-709, WHERE HE SERVED AS FIRE CONTROL OFFICER AND GUNNERY OFFICER UNTIL JUNE 1948. HIS NEXT TOURS AT SEA WERE ENGINEERING OFFICER OF USS TALUGA IAO-'62, AND ASSISTANT GUNNERY OFFICER ABOARD USS BALTIMORE CCA-f68J. IN 1956 CAPTAIN ZIMMERMAN REPORTED ABOARD USS VAMMEN IDE-644, AS EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND IN 1960 WAS ORDERED AS COMMANDING OFFICER OF USS ACME IMSO-508,o FOLLOWING A TWO YEAR TOUR HE WAS THEN ORDERED AS COMMANDER MINE DIVISION SEVENTY-TWO UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1963. CAPTAIN ZIMMERMAN CAME TO USS PHILIP IDD-498, FROM THE U.S, NAVAL MAGAZINE, SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WHICH HE COMMANDED FOR TWO YEARS. CAPTAIN ZIMMERMAN IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER MISS BETTY JEAN MC COY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. THE ZIMMERMANS HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, SUSAN LEE, JUDITH ANN, GEORGEANNE AND PATTI ANN. X X1 M?-31? A M ff X - - X-gif' 'iff'-W fx LQ - --- '54-' vii? Q-In . .5-..:1-' Q :f F 'sling -

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Vvxr.-a:n1::-JG.fE,- I - .'.:..'-. .:,,.AaE,.' ,-.F 91 .,. --'.,.L . JJ 1, ...F 5,9 .JL-'E - v.f.:.JE.k...1L. 41.Gi-.?.Ia'.r.ALIvx..mQLL.i.5K.21..Iv,.Ii, 9 5. :-fa. I L.CDR MAxWEI..I. GRADUATED FROM FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY IN JUNE 1954, THE SAME YEAR THAT HE WAS COMMISSIONED AN ENSIGN, AND ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF ENGINEER OFFICER ON USS PC-564. MR. MAXWELL NEXT ATTENDED CIC SCHOOI.. AND THEN ASSUMED THE BII.I.ET OF CIC OFFICER ON USS MOAI.E CDD-6935, WHERE HE RE- MAINED UNTIL. JANUARY 1959. AFTER TOURS OF DUTY AT U.S. NAvAI.. GUIDED MISSII.E SCHOOL, COMTRAPAC STAFF AND FI.EET ANTI-AIRCRAFT WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, MR. MAxWEI..I. RELIEVED AS COMMANDING OFFICER OF USS TAWASA CATF-927. BEFORE REPORTING TO PHII.IP, MR. MAXWELL WAS ASSIGNED TO THE SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICE, CHIEF OF NAVAL MATERIAL., WASHINGTON, D.C. JOINING PHILIP IN KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN, MR. MAXWELL WAS ON BOARD PHILIP WHEN SHE VISITED HONG KONG, RENDERED NAVAL. GUNFIRE SUPPORT IN VIETNAM AND VISITED YOKOSUKA, JAPAN. MR. MAXWELL HAD, THEREFORE, AN AMPI..E OPPORTUNITY TO SEE PHII..IP STEAM SIVIARTLY THROUGH THE VARIOUS EVOLUTIONS WHICH WERE A PART OF EVERY DAY I.IFE AT SEA DURING THE 1966 WESTPAC CRUISE. W V Z in is I 4 0 9. fmfg mx? i LIEUTENANT COMMANDER JOHN A. MAXWELL, USN