Boston (CAG 1) - Naval Cruise Book

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Leon I. Smith, Jr. C mmanding Officer Captain Leon I. Smith, Jr., Commanding Officer of USS BOSTON (CAG-1), was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 29, 1922. Upon graduation from tlie U.S. Naval Academy in June 1943. he reported to USS NEVADA(BB-36), participating in the Normandy landings, invasion of southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and operations of the Third Fleet in the East China Sea. Captain Smith served in USS WINSLOW (EAG-127) (ex-DD-359) as Project, Gunnery and Executive Officer from 1947 to 1950. He attended the Naval Post Graduate School at Annapolis for a year, followed by duty on the Joint Planning Staff of Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Meifilerranean in Naples, Italy and London. England from 1951 to 1954. In 1955. Captain Smith became Executive Officer of USS BEARSS (DD-654). Duty as Commanding Officer of USS COATES (DE-685} followed from December 1956 to July 1958. His next assignment was as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College, and in 1959, he became head of the Fleet Unit, Personnel Plans Division and later Special As. ' iistant for JCS Personnel Matters in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In October 1961, he assumed command of USS MANLEY (DD-940), the flagship of COMDESRON FOUR. After attending the Fleet Guided Missile School at Dam Neck, Virginia, Captain Smith took command of USS DAHLGREN (DLG-12), flagship of COMDESDIV 182. Upon being re- lieved in June 1964. he was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel as Director Policy Division and later he became Deputy Assistant Chief for Plans and Pro- grams. In August 1966, he entered the National War College at Washington. D.C., graduating in June 1967. Captain Smith assumed command of BOSTON in Sasebo, Japan, on July 3, 1967. He is married to the former Sara Mathews of Norfolk, Virginia, and they have two children: Sara and Leon IV. ) m . ii ' '

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ptain m Archer R. pa on Commanding 29 March 1966 3 July 196 7 Captain Archer R. Gordon was born in New York City on January 15, 1921. He attended St. John ' s University in Brooklyn and was commissioned in the Navy in June 1941, following completion o( the Navy ' s V-12 program at Northwestern University. His (irst duty was in USS CHEMUNG (AO-30) and soon after he attended Navy Submarine School, graduating in 1943. His first submarine was USS SEADRAGON (SS-194) of which he became Executive Officer in 1945. He served as Executive Officer of USS SEA ROBIN ISS-407), assuming command of that submarine in 1950, and then became Force Ordnance Officer in Submarine Force Pacific. Captain Gordon assumed command of Submarine Divi- sion 91 when it became the Navy ' s first guided missile submarine unit in 1955, and later commanded the Pacific Fleet Submarine Training Facility at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In 1961. Captain Gordon took command of the Atlantic Fleet Oceanographic System, and his first deep-draft command was USS HASSAYAMPA (AO-145) in 1964. He took command of USS BOSTON in Boston. Massachusetts, on March 29, 1966. Captain Gordon is married to the former Virginia Utz of Port Washington, New York.

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uommanaer William M. Mc Donald Executive Officer Out Executive Officer. Commander William Maddox McDonald 7 ce7JV ' , ' . ' : ' f f ' in.ton. D.C. He .asedac ed at Central High School in Washington, D.C. and at Duke Uni- versity in Durham. North Carolina. He received his commission through the NROTC program at olk,.l T ' f ' advancement, he attained the rank of Commander on 1 January 1963. Before arriving on board the USS BOSTON on 1 August 1965 Commander McDonald, among other assignments, served is the fnnZ r ' ' ' . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' JOSEPH P. KENNEDY ihFt f- ° ! ' ' ' S Officer of the USS MILLS (DER-383). on the Staff of Commander Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic Fleet and as the Commanding Officer of the USS GLENNON (DD-840) ' Commander McDonald wears the American Theater, and Pacific Theater Campaign Ribbons; the World War U Victory Medal the Ch na Service Medal; the Occupation Forces (Europe and Asia) Medal; and the National Defense Medal