Worcester (CL 144) - Naval Cruise Book

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, Sv I E is 1 5 A134131 2? i limi! EAR ADMIRAL THoMAs EIURRAY STOKES, USN, Commander Cruiser Division Four, was born 2 February 1899 in Fulton, Alabama. At a very early age his family moved to Meridian, Mississippi where he attended the Meridian public school. He enlisted in the Navy in 1917, in IfVorld Mfar I, and went through training at Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco. In 1918 he received a Special Order discharge from enlisted service to enter the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. After graduation from the Naval Academy in june 1922, he reported to duty aboard the U.S.S. CONNECTICUT, and thereafter, until early 1941, followed the usual rotation of duty assignments in various types of ships and at shore establishments, which is normal practice in the Navy for training young officers. In February 1941 he commissioned and took com- mand of one of our, then new, destroyers, the U.S.S. GRAYSON QDD-4355, named for Rear Admiral Grayson, Medical Corps, USN. The GRAYSON was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet during the period of tension preceding Worlcl W'ar II, and was in Iceland on December 7, 1941. In early 1942 the GRAYSON was transferred to the Pacific and was T. Navy lf. if a part of the Task Force which took General Doo- little and his fliers close to the shores of Japan and launched them on the Tokyo Raid in April 1942. After this operation he was transferred from the GRAYSON to the U.S.S. CUSHING QDD-3761 as Commander of Destroyer Division TEN. The CUSHING was lost in combat, sunk by gunfire in the Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942. On 27 November 1942 Commander Stokes was assigned as Executive Officer of the U.S.S. HELENA operat- ing in the South Pacific, thence to the U.S.S. MAS- SACHUSETTS as Chief of Staff to Commander Battleship Division EIGHTg and in February 1944 was assigned duty to commission and command an attack transport, the U.S.S. BARNSTABLE QAPA- 98 . ln August 1944 Captain Stokes was assigned duty as Head of the Department of Marine Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Fol- lowing this shore assignment, he commanded the U.S.S. IOWA QBB-615 and has recently completed a tour of duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations prior to duty with Cruiser Division FOUR. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in August 1948 while on duty in the Navy Department, Wasliington, D. C. Division Four

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CAPTAIN T H HEDERMAN United States Navy Former Chle of Staff Commander Slxth Fleet AI'1AIN T HENRY HLDLRMAN La Jolla California was raduated from the U S tain ol the baseball team and later served as coach He has spent the greater part ol his sea duty in destroyers and commanded USS DOWNES 1940 41 During IVorld VVar II he commanded Destroyer Squadron 61 in Task Force 58 and led his squadron into lower Tokyo Bay one month before apan capitulated destroying a ' f I . .C , ' c 1 . . Naval Academy in 1923, where he was cap- in - . ' J . n , . Q Japanese convoy attempting to sneak out. In 1946-47 he headed the Fleet Training Group, San Diego, and the following year was Commander Destroyer Flotilla ONE in the Pacific Fleet. Captain Hederman holds the Navy Cross and Legion of Merit with combat A CAPTAIN R. L. CAMPBELL United States Navy Chief of Stayff Commander Sixth Fleet MPAPTAIN ROBERT LoRD CAMPBELL, Imlay City, Michigan, graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 19241. Following graduation he served on the USS PENNSYLVANIA, USS ROBERT SMITH, and the USS PREBLE. Later he was Aide and Flag Lieutenant on the staiI of Commander Cruiser Division THREE. In 1935 he assumed command of the USS RAIL, later commanded the USS SE- QUOIA and the USS TRIPPE. His next sea assignment was as navigator olf the USS ALABAMA. He participated in the Gilbert Islands and the lXIarshall Islands campaigns. Alfter various assignments with Destroyer Squadrons and shore duty lic was ordered to duty as Cliicl' ol' Stall, Com- mander SIXTH FLEET. . ,..-... .,...,..,,,.. .. ...gamma ,..L...L .L QL.-..,,Qe..,..f,..+..1.f....................t..,...r.

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