Quincy (CA 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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CAPTAIN 1. A. WATERS ' Captain John A. Waters, Jr., was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on November 12, 1897, where he made his home until entering the Naval Academy. After graduf ating from Stamford High School in 1916, he entered Stevens Institute of Technology where he spent one year prior to his appointment to the Naval Academy in june, 1917. Upon graduating from the Academy in June, 1920, he was assigned to duty on the U. S. S. Utah. In 1926 Cap' tain Waters was ordered to the destroyer McFarland, then operating in the Atlantic fleet, where he served until 1927. In August of 1927 he reported for a post graduate course in general line duties at the Post Graduate School at An' napolis, following which, in 1929, he completed the junior course at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. From 1929 until 1931 he served as flag lieutenant to the late Rear Admiral Walton R. Sexton. From 1931 until 1932, Captain Waters served as assistant gunnery officer aboard the U. S. S. Omaha. In july of 1932 he was asf signed to shore duty in Washington, D. C., where he completed a course of instruction at the Army Industrial College, and then reported for duty in the fleet maintef nance division of the office of Naval Operations. Upon completing this tour in May of 1934, Captain Waters returned to destroyers as the executive oiiicer of the U. S. E. Dewey, the first of the 1500 ton destroyers to join the eet. His first command was the destroyer Crowninsliieid, to which he reported in June, 1936. In January, 1937, he assumed command of the destroyer Decatur. Captain Waters was on duty at the office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, D. C., from 1937 until 1939. In June he went to sea as flag secretary to Rear Admiral Ralston S. Holmes, whose flag was in the U. S. S. Milwaukee. He continued in this assignment until February, 1943. He was then ordered to the Bureau of Naval Personnel in the Navy Department. He assumed command of the Quincy in San Pedro Bay, off Leyte, on June 14, 1945. April 13, 1946 he was detached from the Quincy. CAPTAIN E. M. SENN Captain F.. M. Senn was born in Sitka, Alaska, on May 8, 1897. The son of a naval officer, his first cruise at sea was made at the age of seven weeks. Since his sixteenth year he has been connected with the naval service. Shortly after his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1917 he was on active duty aboard the battleship New York. At the close of the First World War Captain Senn found the submarine service much to his liking. He bef came Captain of the Submarine U. S. S. Of4 and later commanded the U. S. S. Sf18. Then followed a tour of shore duty at the Naval Proving Grounds at Dahlgren, Virginia, during 1926f27. Before his next assignment to shore duty at the Naval Powder Factory in Indianhead, Maryland, he served for one year as navigating officer on the repair ship U. S. Medusa, and for two years as communications officer on the battleship Tennessee. While holding the rank of lieutenant commander he served as commanding officer of the destroyer U. S. S. Dent from 1932 until 1935. His next assignment was in the Bureau of Navigation. He left that post with the rank of com' mander to take up duty for two years on the staff of the Commander in Chief. The following year he became Capf tain of the U. S. S. McDougal, a destroyer leader. His next shore billet was in the role of inspector at the Cen' tral Recruiting Cfhce, Chicago, Illinois, a facility embracf ing the recruiting activities of thirteen states. During this assignment he was advanced to the rank of captain. His first World War II assignment afloat came in May of 1942 when he was made commanding oiiicer of the cruiser U. S. S. Cincinnati. This vessel functioned as a midfocean patrol in the Atlantic on lookout for blockade runners and armed raiders and sent three Nazi merchant' men to the bottom. Cn December 15, 1943, Captain Senn took command of the newly commissioned heavy cruiser Quincy. During this assignment he was awarded two silver stars for outstanding performance of duty. After eighteen months of action in both the Atlantic and Pacific wars, Captain Senn was detached from the Quincy on June 14, 1945.

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.., -'11t'3:'2L. COMMANDER M. L. DRURY Commander Martin J. Drury was born November 6, 1901. He is a native of the Rhode Island town of James' town. Early in his life Commander Drury became interf ested in the Navy as a career, and on June 10, 1920, he joined the service. He was then only eighteen years old. Commander Drury's first duties in the navy ran the pattern of most junior ofiicers. He later took a post graduf ate course in general line duties at the academy. Also a course in torpedo instruction was completed by him. During the early phases of World War II he served aboard the U. S. S. Marblehead as damage control ofiicer. The Navy Cross was awarded to him for his outstanding work on the Marblehead after she had been damaged. Commander Drury was ordered to the Quincy as Execf utive Officer during her commissioning December 15 , 1943. He served aboard this ship during the Normandy invasion and the invasion of Southern France. He received the Bronze Star for his outstanding performance of duty. Commander M. B. Duffill COMMANDER B. L. CARR Commander Bruce L. Carr was born July 20, 1907. He graduated from the Navay Academy at the age of 23 and immediately began his naval career at sea. The first sea duty of the commander was aboard the U. S. S. Raleigh. In 1934 he was relieved and sent ashore to study submarine warfare at New London. Subsequent to this course he was assigned to the U. S. S. Sf38, which was on the Asiatic station at the time. In 1937 Commanf der Carr was transferred to the U. S. S. Rf4, which was stationed at New London. A tour of shore duty at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, N. H., followed his submarine assignments, but two years later he went to sea again as the executive officer of the submarine U. S. S. Crenadier. Later he became Captain of the same vessel and served aboard her until December of 1942, when he went to the staff of Commander Submarines, Seventh Fleet. The next duty of the commander connected him with SCTC in Miami, Florida. Later he attended the Fleet Sonar School at Key West. In july of 1944 he became a membervof the CCMINCH Headquarters, Tenth Fleet. Upon being relieved of this duty, Commander Carr was assigned to the U. S. S. Quincy, where he served as executive officer. . ----' 1 1 Commander M. L. Drury COMMANDER M. B. DUFFILL Commander Monroe B. Duflill was born in Meriden, New Hampshire, on May 22, 1906. He is the son of Har' rison N. Duffill, a retired Major of the army. In Boston Massachusetts, Commander Duflill completed his seconf dary schooling, entering the Naval Academy in 1923. As an ensign his first billet was the battleship New York. Two years later he served as torpedo and commuf nications ofiicer aboard the destroyer Cojf A tour of nearly four years' duty in the Asiatic theater followed, two of them being spent on gunboats in China's Yangtze River and two on the destroyer Smithf'Thornpson. He was aboard the gunboat Oahu in the vicinity of Shanghai in 1932 during the outbreak of the Sinofjapanese war. Ref turning to the Atlantic fleet in 1934, he took up duties aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming. A tour of shore duty as assistant district communications officer in the Boston area followed. In 1939 he served aboard the battleship Arif zona, which operated out of Pearl Harbor. He was ref lieved of this billet in june of 1941, just six months before the Japanese sneak attack. Commander Dufiill served aboard the U. S. S. Quincy as navigator from December of 1943 until October of 1944 when he was designated executive officer of the same ship. Cn October 15, 1945, the commander left the Quincy. 7 Commander B. L. Carr