Boston (CAG 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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.' ,' -Jg3',-- . -. .- . A,g5,.,'.,m. ,.,,,, 5 f..1.....gi.4L, ,, Yfg. ,.....:,..s-mm1uu.4...:..l'E-.-. ... .H J - 1 f- -'P ' - EXECUTI E OFFICER .g ff COMMANDER CHARLES W. SMYERS Commander Smyers, BOSTON's Executive Of- ficer, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up at Point Breeze before he entered the Navy. He attended Peabody High School in Pitts- burgh and entered the Naval Academy in 1938. He was graduated from Annapolis in 1942 and was ordered directly to the Pacific Fleet. He spent most of his wartime duty on board the USS MIN- NEAPOLIS and USS NEW JERSEY in the Pacific. Since the war, he has served primarily in the Atlantic Fleet, serving in cruisers, carriers and destroyers and participating in eight cruises to the Mediterranean. Additionally, he has been as- signed ashore as an instructor of Ordnance and Gunnery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the U. S. Naval Academy. Before reporting to USS BOSTON, he was Commanding Officer of the Naval Ammunition Depot in Hingham, Mas- sachusetts. Commander Smyers is married to the former Miss Polly Whites, also from Pittsburgh. Until her marriage she resided in Stanton Heights The Commanders parents Mr and Mrs Charles W Smyers still reside at 634 Kirtland Street Pitts burgh Pa COVI MAN DER ROBERT S. LEWELLEN Commander Lewellen reported aboard at Thes- saloniki in October to relieve Commander Smyers as Executive Officer. Having served mainly' in Pacific waters, this was the Commander's first Mediterranean deployment since World War Il. Graduating in 1943 from the U.S. Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, Commander Lewellen reported aboard USS QUICK KDD-4903 and before reassign- ment fifty-one months later, was made Executive Officer. QUICK operated as a convoy escort In the Northern Atlantic until the close of World War II, when she was converted to a DMS and transferred to the Pacific Fleet. Before reporting aboard BOSTON the Com- mander had had command of USS VAMMEN lDE-6441 and USS BUCK KDD-7611. His most re- cently completed tour of duty was as Naval Attache at Colombo, Ceylon. Commander Lewellen, a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, is married to the former Miss Jane E. Stettler of Indianapolis Indiana and has two children The Lewellens now live In Scituate Massachusetts , . , ' , 1 n I . . I . ' , ' . ' 1 1 , ' . , . - ,f i7'sQ:,.4'jf,?fQ' L-f:?I'?E'l41!f9. fi ,f V. 1- . . I ff' -:1ii,,'35522rfl,1 Zz- .f 4. ' f - . ' - , ,E , - .,

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CAPTAIN JAMES G. ANDREWS 7 February 1963 - ICE ,.., . 7,8 Captain James G. Andrews graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1938. He began his active naval career aboard the cruiser INDIAN- APOLIS KCA-35I, but soon became interested in submarines. He was subsequently assigned to the Naval Submarine School at New London, Con- necticut in September 1940. Upon graduation, gi? first submarine assignment was aboard the - 3. During World War ll, Captain Andrews served as Executive Officer of the U. S. S. ASPRO' lSS-309I, which operated in the Pacific theater. While serv- ing in the ASPRO, he was awarded 2 Silver Stars and 2 Bronze Stars. He commanded three sub- marines-the SABALO CSS-3021, the BLACKFIN CSS-3221, and the SEA DOG CSS-401i-in the latter days of the war and in the post-war period until July 1949. Captain Andrews' other duty assignments have included the Naval War College, as a student from 1949 to 1950, duty in the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Flag Secretary to the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force Commander, Com- mander of Submarine Division 101, duty with the Atomic Energy Division of OPNAV, and duty at the National War College until July 1958. From that time until July 1959, Captain Andrews commanded the submarine tender U. S. S. SPERRY CAS-121. He then served on the Staff of the Com- mander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces Europe, with headquarters in London, England, until he be- came BOSTON's Commanding Officer on February 7,1963. Captain Andrews is married to the former Shirley Wiede of East Orange, New Jersey. They have two daughters, Susan, a sophomore at Wellesley Col- lege, and Nancy, ten years of age. Captain and Mrs. Andrews reside in Cohasset, Massachusetts. ,mm I

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OFFICERS-CPO's 1962- 1963 LTJG Wrllram W Porter Flag Lieutenant K, My Wg Z, W' ' ' , QW A X X Af f kliiliilll I-CDR Donald E Babcock LCOR Robert E Trgner LT Howard P Gunther LT James D Sanders Surf OpslASW Offrcer OperatronslPIans Officer Flag Secretary Communications and lntellrgence Officer I-UG Ralph I Talhllff I-TIG Jerry T Russell ENS Joseph G Bock ENS Glenn W Borcherdrng MWICIC Officer RGBUIHGSS TFHIHIHZ and Asst Communlcatrons Officer EWlMrssrles Officer ffff ffff f I ff? 4720 ff ff X Weapons Officer l Front row left to right Paulus MMC Lopes RMC Dzanls DKC Hay MTCM Barley CSC Ambrus SKCS Zlock FTC Kllne AGC Back row Mules PHC Baird ICC Baker SDC Newman MUC Wldner MMC Gill HMC Cobb FTC Goldberg SMCS Healey S RDCS Bradway AXC Pemberton GMMC Rousak SFC Prude SFC Hunter GMGC Brown FTC Front row left to rrght Hart GMMC Clark RMC Koran SMAJ Maxam ENMC Matheson MMCS Keating BMC Burnakrs BMC Back row Davls BTC Kamzelskr SKC Sharp YNCS Jones BTC CBIICO FTC Reading ETCS Trgelman PNCS Healy E RDCS Roussel SHC