Washburn (AKA 108) - Naval Cruise Book

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CUMMANDING . OFFICER I. Dunham Reilly Captain, United States Navy Captain 1. DUNHAM REILLY, USN was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1915 and attended schools there until entering college in 1933. At Harvard for two years he came into contact with the Navy through the NROTC, transferred to the Naval Academy and graduated with the Class of 1939. With the exception of a tour at Great Lakes after World War ll, Captain REILLY's assignments have kept him in the Pacific areas for the entirety of his career. His 23 years of commissioned service include about half as sea duty and half as shore duty, summarized as follows: SEA DUTY USS CHESTER CCAN '39e'44 Mostly Gunnery Duties USS SHANGRI-LA QCVU '-44446 Gunnery Officer USS CHEVALIER iDDi '52-'54 Commanding Officer USS LOS ANGELES QCAW '56-'58 Executive Officer USS WASHBURN CAKAi '61-'62 Commanding Officer SHORE DUTY U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis '3S4'39 Student Staff COMNINE, Great Lakes '-46448 Naval Reserve Adm. Naval Training Center Great Lakes '48-'49 Aide to Commander Staff Gen. MacArthur, Tokyo '49-'52 Strategic Plans Staff Training Command SDIEGO '54-'56 Mobilization Plans Personnel Research, SDIEGO '58-'61 Officer in Charge 2 ENSHLT LCDR CDR CDR CAPT MIDN LCDR LCDR CDR CDR CAPT

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I .OUR SHIP The USS WASHBURN was launched at Wilmington North Carolina on 22 January 1944 and was commissioned shortly after at the Todd Shipyards in Hoboken, New Jersey. The ship was named after a county in the state of Wisconsin and at that time was the Navy's most modern conception of the Attack Cargo Ship. K Since 1945 the WASHBURN has served primarily in the waters of the Pacific. She has participated in numerous amphibious operations and has been awarded both the Navy Occupation Service Medal and the China Service Medal. During the Korean War, the WASHBURN received the Korean Service Medal and four combat stars for her part in the landings at KangNung, Korea. Having partici- pated in several Point Barrow Re-Supply Expeditions in Alaska, the WASHBURN set new Navy Ship-to-Shore off-loading records every time. In 1954 and 1955 she was called upon to assist in the Tachens Evacuation and in 1956 she was involved in the Pribiloff lslaud Re-Supply Expedition. The only time the WASHBURN has operated outside the Pacific was when she joined the Amphibious Forces Atlantic in the Caribbean. Otherwise, the WASHBURN has deployed regularly to the Western Pacific to serve with the Seventh Fleet and has visited ports in Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Formosa, Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Australia and Samoan Islands. The primary function of our ship is to transport the necessary materials required in combat to the objective area. To complete the final stages of her mission, many boats are needed to move these materials to the beaches. Therefore, the boats and the men that operate them, compose the WASHBURN's main armament. ,.., . f . , ,'

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EXECUTIVE orrrcte .fc K X 'I..Il Robert A. Moore Commander, United States Navy Robert A. Moore was born in Clay, Kentucky in 1923. He attended Murray State College in Kentucky and Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In Iuly 1943 he began his naval career and was commissioned in October 1944. During his naval career, Commander Moore has served on various destroyers and amphibious type ships. He has given 18 years active service to the navy and has seen extensive shore and sea duty, summarized as follows: SEA DUTY USS SIRONA KAKAW '45-746 Gunnery Officer ENS USS ACHERNAR CAKAXB '46 448 First Lieutenant ENS USS GENERAL CTAPN '48W'5O Ass't Engineering Officer LTIG NAS KWAIALEIN, M. I. '53-'54 Meteorological Officer LT DESRON FIVE STAFF '55-'56 Operations LT USS AGERHOLM CDDB '56457 Executive Officer LCDR USS WASHBURN CAKAB '61- Executive Officer CDR SHORE DUTY USNAB, Ft. Pierce, Fla '44445 Attack Boat Officer ENS USN Gen. Line School 'SO-'51 Student CMontery, Cal.D LTIG MSTS-Pacific '51-'51 Ass't Operations Officer LTIG USU Post Grade School '51-'53 Student CMonterey, Cal.D LT FLTWEACEN, Seattle, Wash. '54-455 Senior Forecaster LT USN Post Grad. School '58-'61 Instructor CMonterey, Call LCDR s 3 I s