Anchorage (LSD 36) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain Cyrus A. Rank was commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Aviation program upon completion of Flight Training in 1945. During the Korean War he served with Fighter Squadron 93 aboard the carrier PHILIPPINE SEA. More recently he served as Executive Officer of Fighter Squadron 102, Executive Officer and Command- ing Officer of Fighter Squadron 74 and Commanding Of- ficer of Fighter Squadron 101, the Atlantic Fleet F-4 (Phantom) Replacement Squadron. Captain Rank has al- so served as First Lieutenant and Damage Control Assistant on the USS INDEPENDENCE (CVA-62) and Air Officer of the USS FORRESTAL (CVA-59). In July 1967, Captain Rank reported as Head, Air Superiority Section in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. He is a graduate of General Line School at Monterey, California and the Command and Staff Course at the U.S. Naval War College. Captain Rank is married to the former Marjorie Harper of Tiffin, Ohio. They have two daughters, Pru- dence, who is married to Roger McClurg, who is serving with the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia and Deborah who resides with her parents in San Diego, California.

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COMMANDING OFFICER CYRUS A. RANK CAPT. USN

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COMMANDER FRANKLIN H. BRIGGS Commander Franklin H. BRIGGS was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on 7 March 1933 and now makes his home in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Colorado and University of Nebraska under the NROTC Regular Program and received his commission as Ensign upon graduation from the latter school in 1955. His early assignments were in the aircraft carrier USS ESSEX (CVA-9) as a Deck Division Officer; the Staff of Commander Naval Forces Japan as Operations Center Watch Officer, and as Assistant Plans Officer; and as Com- bat Information Center Officer on the Attack Transport USS PAUL REVERE (APA-248). Subsequent tours of duty were spent as CIC Instructor at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, Virginia and as Employment Officer of the Staff of Com- mander Amphibious Group ONE, homeported in Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines. He reported to the ANCHORAGE from his most recent tour of duty as Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Reserve Training Center, Scotia, New York. Commander BRIGGS has been awarded the Navy Commendation Medal (with Combat V ) and also holds the Meritorious Unit Citation, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with five stars, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation (Cross of Gallantry). His wife is the former Chizuko Imaoka of Nagasaki, Japan.