Franklin D Roosevelt (CVA 42) - Naval Cruise Book

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ROY' S BELCIE-IEE, Jr CoI11:r11ar1c1er,U' S Navy EXECUTIVE OFFICER Commander Roy S. Belcher, Ir. qradu- ated from Topeka High School, Topeka, Kansas in l933. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kan- sas in l94O and entered the Navy that same year as an aviation cadet. He received his flight training at Pensacola and Miami, Florida. Following his commissioning at Miami in Iune of 1941, Commander Belcher was as- signed to duty as a flight instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas, and later served with anti- submarine carrier loased squadrons in both the Atlantic and Pacific. At the close of World War ll, he was Commanding Officer of Torpedo Squadron THREE which was assigned to USS KEAR- SARGE. Since the War, Commander Belcher has attended the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. He has served as Officer in Charge of Basic Training Unit THREE at Pensacola, Floridap as Executive Officer of VAW-l2 at Ouonset Point, Rhode lsland, and as Air Officer of the escort car- rier USS MINDORO.

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