Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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if f, As. -f . Captain Robert W. CARY, USN Commanding Officer from 11 October 1943 and was temporarily relieved about 12 April 1944. left above: Captain F.C. LAYNE, USN was the intermediate Skipper to take Command while waiting for Captain CARY to arrive. Captain LAYNE had served as Navigator for Captains Stone, Denebrink, Ziroli, and a short time for Captain CARY. ADM. CARY, IN 2 WARS Retired Rear Adm. Robert Webster Cary, 76, a holder of the Medal of Honor, died Saturday of a heart attack. At his death Admiral Cary was board chairman of Trans-World Shipping Service, Inc., Toledo's largest freight forwarder. Adm. Car graduated in 1914 from the U.S. Naval Academy. Slix months later, as an Ensign aboard the cruiser San Diego, he saved the lives of three men in a boiler room iz-icplosion at sea. For his act, he received the Medal of onor. In the course of his 36 years with the Navy, Adm. Cary was an officer aboard ships escorting troop transports from Iceland to northern Europe in World War I and in World War II he commanded the Savannah, a light cruiser supporting the invasion of Italy by the Fifth Army. His decorations included the British Distinguished Service Order, the Navy Cross and the Legion of Merit with three gold stars from the Navy and an Oak Leaf cluster from the Army. He also held the Order of Orange of Massau, bestowed by the Netherlands. iffff. gf . , ' ,J 335' J I If-7 HMM, lay? AQM Aww Q1 9,5 ,,,,, j,g,ff,ae? fffzwfzir M I . f.4. ,iv f A4 4JZc44aaf awwvffgmfw 157 ,W-aw! 4, ah., I Wt PPV!- 'Hifi-A671 6jAu4,,.45l ,5-ru., I pwi' aw-.ad gA 6o4-1-QL . ae f 1ZT7c1f.Z WM jet A I 1 AA' Lymfwql ' ,,Q,,,'7Z ., lfV f'1' '0'le 'L'2,44'!' c3'77'?fYV'5 ,44,...f-m...'-+'a4'- g.. 'ffJf1 .iJ' ,f',f?,,,,..,. ., - ,,-fn, eaten CJ Jgdda, ximza., ,.,., . A , 0 I xiao avail M at A-zQL7C7.L.,fz..,. Q00-nu... A 13455311-obo K

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Q Qi SICILYS SHORE GREETS THE INVASION FLEET Under the alert guns of BROOKLYN, LST's flanding ship tanksl of the invasion armada dart to the shore. General Quarters on D-day. below: Captain F.K. COSS, USMC, cuts the cake for the Marine Birthday celebrated somewhere in the Mediterranean in 1943. The Baker is at the right. V95

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.P ,,,-,g,'f' 5:-119.9 fzlf j P E' Jwvlmx ina--1-K -, W. .. 55,5 ' N ia., Q 1 5 1 f ., - . - li 1 : Emi ,,,1X, KX Admiral H.K. HEWITT, USN., Cruiser Division Eight greets Admiral Cunningham of the Royal Navy, with Captain R.W. CARY, and Captain F.C. LAYNE, USN looking on. Others identified in the picture, to the right is COX, YN 1, and behind Capt. LAYNE is CDR. O.K. O'Daniel. below, Captain R.W. CARY, USN, second from left, with Admiral Cunningham, Royal Navy, to his left. Captain LAYNE, USN is to the left, and the other British Officer is unidentified.