Catamount (LSD 17) - Naval Cruise Book

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FIRST DIVISION Afkins Charlie E., BM2 Alvis, Frederick A., SN Ellis, William E., SN Hampton, Charles P., SN Bailey, ColleU F., BMJ Bynum, Ronald E., SN Evans, Joyce M., SN Hargreaves, Edward M., SN Bowman, Robert G., BM3 Chapman, Eddie, SA Evans, Walter N., SN Jennings, Jack F., SN triesr. Sniriey M., BMo Ciandro, Joseph V., SN Gilbreath, Eldon F., SA Lewallen, Melvin O., SN — 47

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Ensign Norman A. Nelson, First division officer, received his commission at OCS, Newport, R. I., in July, 1933, after having served ten months as an enlisted man in recruit training and qjarterma- ster school. He was graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1952 with a degree in educa ' .ion. Ensign Nelson ' s home is in Tuleta, Texas. He was roughnecking in the Texas oilfields before entering the service. He reported aboard the Ca ' .mount in September, 1953. Chief Boatswain Chester O. Raney ente- red the Navy in January, 1929, and was commissioned in 1943 while serving in the U3S Chamcnt ' AP-5 . Other assignments during his twenty-four years in the service, before coming to the Catamount in October, 1952, were in the USS Idaho (BB-42 , UoS Cincinnati (CL-6), USS Sapelo (AO-11), USS Canisteo (AO-99 ' , USS Kennebec AO-36), USS Topeka iCL-67), USS Prairie (AD-15 ' , and at the U. S. Naval Air Station, San Diego, the Naval Construction Training Center, Williamsburg, Va., and the Naval Train- ing Center, San Diego. He was also a member of Admiral Byrd ' s expedition in 1946 to the South Pole. Chief Boat- swain Raney is married and his home is in San Diego, California. Ensign J. Harry Jones, Second division officer, received his commission in July, 1953, at Newport ' s OCS after eight months of enlisted service. A graduate of Beloit College (Wis.) where he majo- red in English composition he was employed as a newpaper reporter in Kansas City before entering the service. Ensign Jones reported aboard the Cata- mount in September, 1953. He is married. Carol A. Tha= ' :or, DM ' . Wiiiuni P. (; iii p, (,-;m. - 46 -

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:. ' n, Raymond C, SA Puckett, Floyd L., SA Smith, Jimmy D., SN McCann, Wilfred L., GM3 Luckinbill, M. E., SN Roberson, Bobby E., SA Simons, Raymond E., jr,. SN Culver, Norman W., GM2 Quesenberry, F. H., GM3 Miller, Jimmie I., SA Solley, P. J., jr., SN Thompson, Jimmie L., SN Padrick, Eugene L., GM2 Cannon. John R., GMSN Nolen, Johnie A., SN Spinelli, Jerry, SN Wessel, Oscar E., SN Freburg, Paige D., GM3 Keena, George C, GMSN - 48