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Captain Rollin E. Westholm was born at Moose Lake, Minnesota and attended Moose Lake High School. After attending Duluth Junior College, Duluth, Minnesota, for one year, he entered the Naval Academy in T93O. He was graduated frorn the Academy and commissioned Ensign in the U.S. Navy in May T934. His first assignment, from T934 to T937, was the battleship USS TEXAS. From T937 to T9-40, he served in the destroyers USS BARRY and USS McCALL. ln T940 Captain Westholm commenced four years of duty in motor torpedo boats, including six months in England in T94T as Assistant Naval Attache and Special Naval Observer in connection with the torpedo boats. This was later followed by a seventeen month tour in motor torpedo boat operations in the South Pacific. became Commanding Officer of the USS BUSH CDD-5291 In May T944, he which command he held until May T945. From the end of World War ll until early T953 Captain Westholm was for the most part attached to various Navy and Army and instructor. ln T953 he reported as Commander of Schools both as student Destroyer Division 262, which command he held until June of T954 when he became Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Battleship Division Two. ln September T955 Captain Westholm commenced a tour of shore duty as Commanding Officer of the Naval Station at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. ln February T958 he was relieved of his duties at Annapolis and in early April he assumed command of the USS ESTES QAGC-TQJ. Captain Westholm wears the following decorations: Navy Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Combat V and Gold Star in lieu of a second award and the Presidential Unit Citation. Captain Jesse B. Gay Jr., USN, a native of Hackensack, New Jersey and a T935 graduate of the Naval Academy, relieved Captain Westholm as Commanding Officer of the USS ESTES on T May T959 in Pohang, Korea. After receiving his commission, Captain Gay served successively aboard the battleship USS MARYLAND, the destroyer USS BARRY, as a roommate of Captain Westholm, and aboard the cruisers USS AUGUSTA and USS BREMERTON. While serving on the Augusta he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V for meritorious service as First Lieutenant in action against enemy forces during the amphibious assualt on the coast of Normandy, France in June T944. ln T947 he ioined the USS WILLIAMSBURG, Presidential Yacht, as Executive Officer, and in T950 assumed command of the USS STICKELL lDD-888l, which, as acting fiagship of Commander Seventh Fleet, visited Saigon, Indo-China in the interest of the French forces fighting rebels. While commanding the Stickell, Captain Gay was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Legion of Merit. with Combat Detached from the Stickell in Septmber T95T, he served for three years in the Executive Department at the Naval Academy, following which he was assigned Commander Destroyer Division T82. ln January T956 Captain Gay assumed duties as Commander Fleet Sonar Training Group, San Diego, and Commanding Officer Fleet Sonar School, San Diego. Prior to assignment as skipper of Estes, Captain Gay served as Chief of Staff to Commander Carrier Division Fifteen.