Charles S Sperry (DD 697) - Naval Cruise Book

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XXI Z Corel of Fleet Post Office New York, New York f J 1 1 . u. s. s. CHARLES s. SPERRY IDD-6971 9 x I 1 - ' n A ,A MESSAGE FROM THE CAPTAIN TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN 0F THE SPERRY: Although the cruise period was a brief three months more than 22,000 nautical miles were steamed between 4 June and l September. Even the engineers will admit this requires a lot of steam but they were always ready to Nanswer all bellsn. A As auresult of our vigorous training while deployed with the Second Fleet, we soon learned that SPERRY was ready to accept the challenge of operating as a unit with the First Team and the wor1d's Greatest Fleet HThe Sixth Fleetn. We can all point with pride to the many accomplishments and the smart manner in which these duties were performed as a member of the ASW SixthVFleet Team. The highly commendable performance during an Anti-Air gunnery exercise, the many congratulatory messages received for the expeditious replenishment at sea operations, the exercising at Anti-submarine and Anti-Air warfare, the efficient handling of the many rescue destroyer assignments, the out- tstanding recovery of the downed INDEPENDENCE pilot, and numerous other tasks accomplished soon labeled .the SAPERRY as a Can do Ship . It was also during this period that SPERRY was awarded the highly i coveted Battle Efficiency Award CED, symbolic of the best in Squadron TWENTY yfFOUR, for the competitive year ending 50 June 1962. This achievement was only made possible by each officer and man functioning as a team and dis- playing that most important characteristic of the successful fighting man - V Thewill +13 win. U As Commanding Officer I know each of you share with me my pride and deep appreciation in all of these accomplishments. Finally, your conduct and example set in the Med. area during your absence from your families and loved ones was superb and unmistakably deserving of the title HUnited States Ambassadors of Hood-Willn. r o RK com A A Commander United States Navy Commanding Officer

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'AI' RK S. Cole THE COMMANDING OFFICER USS Charles S. Sperry QDD-697, The Commanding Officer, Commander RK Stewart Cole was born in Kentucky in 1918, attended high school and college in that state. He was commissioned an Ensign in September of 1943 and immediately was ordered to an LST in the Atlantic. He was Executive Officer of LST-982 during the Normandy landings in Europe and Okinawa Campaignin the Pacific. Other shipboard duties include Commanding Officer of Minesweeper Grackle fAMI3j, First Lt. and Gunnery Officer of Floyd B. Parks fDD884j, Executive Officer of foyce K DER-31 7 j, Communications Officer of Macon fCAI32j, Operations Officer of Newport News f CA148j and Commanding Officer of Bearss fDD654j. Shore duty billets have been with Naval Station Orange, Texas, General Line School Monterey, California, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, and Phibtralant Staff located at Little Creek, Virginia. He was appointed to his present rank on1 April 1959. The Captain is married to the former Ruth E. Puckett also a Kentuckian and has one daughter Patricia Kay. The Captain assumed connnand of the C. S. Sperry fDD697j on the 10th ofjanuary 1962 at Mayport, Florida. . I

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95s, 3 'wn..e..s-ff LT J R Morgan EXECUTIVE OFFICER Offleers Front row l to r LTJG Cuuvet LT Hogan CDR Cole LT Morgan LT Dolly ENS Cummins Buck row ENS Drentzler, LTJG Smlth, ENS Krlngle, ENS Yonovsky, ENS Onoruh, LTJG Stewart, ENS Meltzer, ENS Dillard, LTJG Savage, LTJG Dodt, LTJG Melslohn 'VU Lt Joseph R Morgan was born 1n Newton Massachusetts on 4 june 1929 and graduated from the Un1ted States Naval Academy 1n 1953 havmg prevrously served aboard the Sperry as a mldshrpman He servedon the USS Lloyd Thomas DDE 764 and the USS Glaczer KAGB 4j as gunnery offrcer and par t1c1pated ln Operatron Deep Breeze I and II on the Glaczer as a demol1t1on offrcer As alde and flag secretary to Commander Cnuser D1v1s1on 4 he served on board the crursers Albany Canberra Boston, and Macon Wh11e operatmg 111 Medrterran ean Carrrbean and North Atlantrc Lt Morgan reported to the Sperm: from the Executlve department of the Naval Acad emy He 1S marrled to the former Margaret Holmes of Brrght on Massachusetts and has four chzldren Bruce lay Genlce and Krmberley Chlefs Front row l to r Chlef Hughes Chref Saballa Chief Love Chief Heltmonn Ch1efQulnn Back row Chlef Deyo, Chief Lake, Chlef Grlffee, Chief Forrest S ',', fffzf ' of 9 L - t IW V S Q . , . 7 . . I . . . . 3 . I ' J a ' All A l 1 4 v JI - 3 I 5 . 3 2 ' 3 ' o o 0 o ' 1 l , A , 4 1 - , - p , I 'I I . U- I . I . . I . . 1