Daly (DD 519) - Naval Cruise Book

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The prestige, privilege, and the burden of command ■Joseph Conrad CDR. J.F. Schremp, USN Commanding Officer Commanding Officer of DALY is Cdr. James Francis Schremp, USN, of 214 Seaton Rd., Stam- ford, Conn. He attended Columbia University prior to his entering the U.S. Naval Academy in 1938. He received his commission on Dec. 19, 1941, upon graduation from the Nova! Academy. As a junior officer he served on board the USS WICHITA, HORNET, and PITTSBURGH. He was a member of the ship ' s company when PIT- TSBURGH towed the disabled USS FRANKLIN from a combat area near Japan and when she lost her bow in a typhoon off Okinawa in May 1945. Following promotion to LCDR in 1945, he was ordered to the USS IOWA as CIC Officer. His next tour was on board the USS NEW JER- SEY as Gunnery Officer, during which the ship was decommissioned in the New York Naval Shipyard. In 1948 he was ordered to the Office of the Judge Advocate General for postgraduate train- ing at Georgetown Univ. Law School. In 1951 he received an LLB degree and was admitted to the Va. and D.C. bars. He then attended the Fleet Sonar School, Key West Fla., prior to duty as Executive Officer and Navigator of the USS M.C. FOX (DDR 829), which, in 1952, par- ticipated in the NATO operation Mainbroce. Following this duty he attended the Naval War College, Newport, R.I. While at Newport, he was promoted to Cdr. in March 1954; Cdr. Schremp then served in Legislative L iaison and as Con- gressional Investigations Officer in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. In September, 1956, he took command of the USS DALY. Cdr. Schremp holds the World War It Vic- tory Medal, the American and National Defense, and European and American Theatre Medals, the Pacific Theatre Medal with 6 stars and others. He married the former Betty L. Hanemann, of Des Moines, Iowa in Portsmouth, Va. in 1944. Their children are James F. Jr., 11, and Chris- tine A., 9.

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COMDESDIV 302 Captain Gideon M. Boyd, U.S. Navy, broke his pennant in DALY as Commander Destroyer Division Three Hundred Two in July, 1956. He has served in that capacity since that time. He came to the division well versed in all phases of destroyer operations having served some eight years in destroyer types. Born in Lakewood, New Mexico in 1915 he moved to Adairsville, Georgia when five years old. He is the son of Mr. G.M. Boyd of Adairsville, Georgia and Josephine K. Boyd of Stella, Nebraska, The Commodore was graduated in 1938 from the U.S. Naval Academy and was ordered to the USS New Mexico (BB 40). in 1940 he was or- dered to the USS McCALL (DD 400). While in McCALL in 1941, World War II began. During the war, he saw service in the Pacific Ocean area in McCALL, C.K. BRONSON (DD 668). in the latter, he served as Executive Officer from her commissioning in 1943 until 1944 when he became Commanding Officer of the USS FUL- LAM (DD 474). He served in this capacity until 1946. From 1946 until 1949 he attended a post- graduate course in guided missiles at the Naval Academy Postgraduate School and Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. He then comman- ded the USS R.E. KRAUS (EDD 849) until 1951 when he became Air Defense Officer on the staff of Commander, Operational Development Forces. In 1953 and 1954 he attended the course in Strategy and Tactics at the Naval War Col- lege, Newport, R.I. During 1954 through 1956 he was Executive Officer of the USS BALTI- MORE (CA 69). His next billet was that of Commander Destroyer Division 302. In 1940 he married Ruth Stearns Hawks of Greenfield, Mass. They have two children, Nancy, and Richard. He and his family now re- side at 11 Hunter St., Newport, R.I. He is a member of the Methodist Church, a Masonic Lod- ge, the Sigma Xi Society and the American Or- dnance Association.

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