Fitch (DMS 25) - Naval Cruise Book

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.EXECUTIVE UFFICER Lieutenant William lVI. NEWELL, Executive Olhcer of the USS FITCH, began his present eighteen years of service aboard the USS CHES- TER CCA 271 in December, 1935 as a Seaman second-class. Leaving the CHESTER in 194-3 as Chief Electricians Mate, Lt. Newell served as leading petty oflicer of the Engineering Group, Re- ceiving Station, Noumea, New Caledonia, where he was recommended for Warrant Electricians Mate. After attending General Electric's Turbo- Elec- tric School in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Newell was commissioned as Ensign and served aboard the USS DARBY QDE 2181 and the USS BURDO CAPD 1331. In 1948 lVIr. Newell attended Cornell Univer- sity after which he was assigned as Engineering Ofiicer of the USS .I. C. OWENS CDD 7761. From there lVIr. Newell attended General Line School in Monterey, Calif. for nine months, after which he was assigned to the FITCH as Executive Officer. BUMMANDING UFHCER Lieutenant Commander William E. UNDER- WOOD, Commanding Ofiicer of the USS FITCH CDMS 251 was born in Marion, Alabama. His formal introduction to the Navy was at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, from which he graduated on 19 December 1941. In October 1946, after a year of graduate work in Ordnance Engineering at Annapolis and a year at the University of California, he was awarded a Masteris degree in applied physics. Captain UNDERWOOD served aboard the USS VINCENNES QCA4-41 and the USS MOBILE QCL631 during World War II. After completion of his post graduate training he was assigned to the Staff of Commander Operational Development Force and in 1947 he was assigned to duty as Executive Ofiicer of the USS WITEK KEDD 84-81. Prior to his present command, LCDR, UN- DERWOOD was executive officer of the U. S. Naval Ordnance Unit at Key West, Florida. i . eff,

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llllll ENGINEERS They got us there FIREMEN Ist Row: Audet, Joseph R., Dyson, Paul H., Huber, Shel- don C., Carlherg, Jesse M., Martin, Francis X., Hender- son, William H., Cheyney, Jr., Harry P. 2nd Row: Engle- man, Lyle M., Doherty, James W., Anderson, William S., Hasch, Michael T., Bur- dick, Gordon S., Nestor, George R., Luizer, Edward L. 3rd Row: Tyson, Robert O., Gregory, Billie E., Fisher, Raymond D., Erickson, Du- ane L., Sacht, Arthur W., Carlile, James M, and back ENGINEERING OFFICERS Ensign David G. Harkrider, Lt. Roy M. Chipley, Ens. John T. Hickey. SHIPFITTERS lst Row Thomass Harold W Johnson Nels J Scraggs John C Austin Curtis P K1Jowsk1 Joseph E Bond Jimmie F 2nd Row Premo Robert E Whitney Lewis C Jr Angle John R Bauer Albert G. J Paul Allen B. Front: Sakel Daniel M