Dashiell (DD 659) - Naval Cruise Book

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Captain, who had previously commanded another iighting'PaciIic destroyf er, would take the DASHIELI. on her triumphant return to the States. In company with her Division and three carriers the 659 left Pearl on 1 October and passed through the Canal on the 14th. Two hec4 tic days were spent in the incredible city of Colon. Then came the last leg of the voyage, and on 21 October the DASHIELI.. moored in Char- leston, S. C. Her Navy Day port was Wilmington, N. C., where she af- forded great interest to thousands of visitors and was honored by the presence of her gracious sponsor, Mrs. Robert B. Dashiell, who was ac- companied by her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Catch, for the festivities on the 27th. Shortly afterwards, her complement already cut to peacetime size, the ship returned to Charleston for honorable retirement to the fleet reserve. Each of the hundreds who have served aboard the 659 has at some time wished he might be reassigned to the Atlantic or to a shore station. But now that the guns are silenced and the smoke of battle has cleared there is not a man of her company who is not glad and proud to have served on this gallant vessel under the most trying conditions and through the bitterest fighting of the war. The DASHIELIIS crew have stood together for a common cause againts common danger-against suicide planes, coastal batteries, ty- phoons. They have been to sea for months at a time, months of scorch- ing heat, numbing routine, and ever impending threat of attack. And what respite was there from the confining decks and bulkheads of a small steel ship? Two cans of warm beer per man on a sun-baked, Cod- forsaken atoll. These are the things that breed an association which is deeper, more lasting even than friendship. The DASHIELI.. may crumble away in 'cRed Lead Rowv. We prayerfully hope that her guns will never again be called upon to bring order to a world gone mad. It is not in steel and rivets that the 659 will be perpetuated. It is in the hearts of the men who have sailed her and fought her. And in the hearts of their sons. And of the sons of their sons. ' Now the log of the UNITED STATES SHIP DASHIELL is written. Her tale is told. End of cruzse. Dashzell passes River Bridge, approaching

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