Quincy (CA 71) - Naval Cruise Book

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HEADS of DEPARTME TS Left lo Rzght Comd M B Dufiill Comdr C R Gllllam Comdr M Sunderland Comdr H L Renter Captain E. M. Senn. Left Io Rzghl Comdr B W Rothblatt Comdr W M Laugh ln Comdr W H Cranford Comdr J F La xmer Lt Comdr. J. R. Black burn Lt Comdr C W Wxlson, Lt Comdr B W Chambers 90

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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

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