Columbus (CA 74) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1951

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.s Q' ' Edmund fsaaztez 'gifldagdeq CapTain, UniTecl STaTes Navy ExecuTive Officer July I949 To January I95l 6apTain Billingsley, an Arkansas Trav- eller . aTTended The UniversiTy of Arkansas. graduaTed Trom The Naval Academy in l932, and earned his M.A. degree in Personnel Ad- minisTraTion aT NorThwesTern UniversiTy in I947. He was mosT acTive during The war years when he parTicipaTed in The NorTh ATrican, Normandy, SouTh- ern France, and Okinawa campaigns Tor which he was awarded The Tollowing special awards and ciTaTions: Silver STar, Bronze STar, LeTTer oT CommendaTion, and Croix de Guerre. He wears ribbons appropriaTe To These TheaTres oT miliTary operaTions. Upon deTachmenT Trom The Columbus, he was assigned The imporTanT Task as ChieT oT STaTT, ComCruDiv Six in which posiTion he conTinues To daTe. Wahve oT WashingTon, D. C. C5raduaTed Trom U.S. Naval Academy in I934, and served in succession in baTTle- ship COLORADO, deTroyer ELLIS, STaTT oT Commander ScouTing Force, cruiser NORTHAMPTON, desTroyer HUNT and was serving in The aTTack TransporT MCCAWLEY as gunnery oTTicer when.World War ll sTarTed. ln The MCCAWLEY, Took parT in The iniTial landing on Guadalcanal and The FirsT BaTTle oT Savo ilsland. ThereaTTer. on duTy in The OTFice oT CNO engaged in communicaTion inTelligence. Took command oT The desTroyer MERVINE in The winTer oT I944 and escorTed high speed convoys. beTween EasT CoasT porTs and The MediTerranean. ATTer The MERVINE was converTed To a DMS in l945, and enTered The PaciTic, engaged in minesweeping operaTions in The China-Japan area on surrender oT The Japanese. Com- missioned The new desTroyer DAMATO in 1946 and com- manded her unTil I948. Then aTTended The Armed Forces STaTT College and wenT To The OTTice oT CNO Tor duTy in The STraTegic Plans Division. From January I95l, served as ExecuTive OTTicer oT The COLUMBUS, Flagship oT CinCNELM. Vwdng S6455 pfzeafm Commander, UniTed STaTes Navy ExecuTive Officer January l'95l To PresenT



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