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f |i COMMANDER E. M. WARD, U S N EXECUTIVE OFFICER USS ALBEMARLE
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BIOGRAPHY OF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Commander Ward was born on 16 October 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Follow- inghis schooling at LaSalle High School and LaSalle College in Philadelphia, he entered the U. S. Navy at Pensacola in November 1940 as an aviation cadet. Upon graduation in June. 1941 he was designated a naval aviator. Since then, CDR. Ward has had a wide variety of naval assignments. He has served as a flight instructor; executive officer to Patrol Bomb- ing Squadron 124; Officer-in-Charge of the Special Alaskan Magnetic Survey and a simu- lar project called Volcano ; Officer-in- Charge of project Ski Jump (Oceanographic studies of the Arctic Ocean); on the staff of RADM. Dufeckin connection with Operation Deepfreeze; operations and executive officer of Air Development Squadron 6; Commanding Officer of Utility Squadron 4. Prior to re- porting aboard the USS ALBEMARLE, Com- mandingOfflcer of the Naval Air Technical. TrainingUnit, Lakehurst, N, J. Married to the former Marilyn Hesser of Philadelphia, the Wards have five children: Edward 17, Joanne 13, John 9, Mary Lee 5, andSuzan 4. Currently, they reside at 3720 Central Ave- nue, Ocean City, New Jersey. Cdr. Ward with Department Heads
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scoria Our cruise book does not deal with one specific cruise, but with several cruises or places of operation from June 1959 to April 1960. On 18 June 1959 the ALBEMARLE steamed north for a 34-day cruise, which included tending sea- planes at Halifax, Nova Scotia, a goodwill tour down the St. Lawrence River to Quebec, Canada, a return trip to Halifax tending seaplanes-seaplane operations at Gardiner ' s Bay, Long Island, a week- end liberty in New York, and, then, arrival at Norfolk, the ALBEMARLE ' S home port on 22 July. The second cruise was a six-day seaplane operation in November on the Rappahannock River in northern Maryland, followed by a 12-day tending project at Bermuda in December 1959. The fourth and final cruise of this period, and the longest the ALBEMARLE has taken since her recommissioning, was Operation Springboard from 8 January to 1 April, 1960, tending the four sea- plane squadrons of the Atlantic Fleet at San Juan, Puerto Rico. RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO I
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