Floyd Parks (DD 884) - Naval Cruise Book

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Y' -'-x:'1-- -- Q I LODR Yerly reported to the PARKS in February 1959 return- ing to destroyers after having completed a round-robin of Pacific Fleet Force Commands. l-le has served in OOMAIR- PAO, OOMPHIBPAO, COMORUDESPAC, and COMINPAC. Previous destroyer experience was gained as Operations Officer aboard the USS LOFBERG CDD 7595 and as Executive Officer aboard the USS OURRIER CDE 7005. He Has also served as an instructor at Fleet Sonar School in San Diego. '7 'k 5?,k...iff..C.g, ,K I , , I ,. . f ff. , A 7 , , Yflwy' an F X , or -f f fy air--' ,. f , M 1 Q jj:'Mfg,oi-.,yi4iVf,s .- , . ,. :X ,ff fo 1- ,M i ff X f ,fgrkfrgywyyw X fl. - , ,K . , K K K - 7.5: LCDR. T. W. McNAMARA Operations LCDR. H. L YERLY i l l i . I r 1 1 l 1 i . l LTIG. T. F. ARNOLD Gunnery Q 1 J LTIG. E. B. MILLER ' Engineering V 6 LTIG. I. V. BELL Supply

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.j - H--------------I------nnu-nnnnnnnunnInununIgIgIIlI1IIIIlIIllllIllllllIllllllllllIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlllIllIlIllllIIIIIIlQlIllIIIl!llllIlI1QIIlllIIQ5IglIlllllIIIlllunnlllnlulnlluluulplgg 1 i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 4 I 1 4 1 1 1 Commander W. F. V. BENNETT 1 Commanding Officer A I I V i 1 1 U.S.S. FLOYD B. PARKS IDD 880 i s.Z'2.'ZLZ1ZIlT'E31!L3'.. 1 MEMORANDUM FROM THE CAPTAIN TO: Officers and men of the USS FLOYD B. PARKS CDD BBLD 1. This cruise book marks the completion of a rewarding and highly successful deployment with the SEVENTH Fleet ' the Far East. The following pages tell the story of that cru e quite well- the routine Q of shipboard life, our operations at sea and th interesting places l visited. Howev th p' ture would not be complete without a recognition of the spir't h d work and loyalty demonstrated by 1 the men of the PARKS on th deployment tour. That portion story cannot be hilly treat cl by pict es or pr t. This we carry in our hearts with the k 1 dg h rved our country ll 2 Th' b k d d t t fine ship and the men who made h . , w. . V6 Commander, U.S. Navy 1 1 Commander Walter F. V. Bennett became Com- manding Officer of the USS FLOYD B. PARKS in luly 1958 after having served in the Atomic Energy Division of the office of the Chief' of Naval Opera- Hens Commander Bennett was commissioned Ensign in 1941 from the U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipman School, Northwestern University, after graduating from Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics. His first assignment was as instructor in Naval Engineering at Cornell University followed by duty as Executive Officer and then Commanding Officer of Submarine Chaser 655 which participated in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily and Italy. At Salerno he was awarded the Silver Star for con- spicuous gallantry in action against the enemy. Later he became Executive Officer of the Destroyer Escort COLE followed by Commands of the COLE, DE l-l.C. IONES, and the Radar Picket Destroyer Escort FOGG. After a tour as Officer in Charge of the Naval Recruit Station in Louisville, Ky., Commander Ben- nett did post-graduate work at the U.S. Naval Academy and at Ohio State University where he received a Master of Science degree in Physics. Since then he has served as assistant Progress Officer of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Edgewood, Md., and prior to reporting for duty at CNO's Atomic Energy Division was Tactical Officer and Navigator of the heavy cruiser ALBANY. Besides the Silver Star, Commander Bennett holds the American Defense, American Theater, African- European Campaign C3 starsl, Pacific Campaign fl starl, Victory, Occupation, and China Service Medals. l-le presently resides in Coronado, Califor- nia, with his wife, the former Kathleen Eleanor Nestor of New Rochelle, N. Y., and their two chil- dren.

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f! I I LT. R. A. POTTS Rel. Operations Officer ENS. B. A. ROBBINS, III First Lieutenant ENS. R. T. OLLIVIER Communication Officer LT flql T. P. IAMES, IR. ASW Officer and Navigator ENS. A. L. ALLOU CIC Officer Electronics Material Office ENS. D. L. WHITHEAD G Division Officer ENS. W. A. DEMCHAK Damage Control Assistant ENS. K. R. KNOBLOCK D Division Officer 1, ENS. W. T. WIRTI-I Main Propulsion Assistant ENS. R. H. WINTZ Asst. Communication Officer I GF 7 '