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T- BIOGRAPHY O thgolflgvg Efggua, VYFSCOHSGZ1, Lsslie llfflartin Slack entered c emy rom t M' h' ' Graduated with th e s a e 0 ic igan in 1930. Cl f 1934, h d ' the battleships COSLOIQASDO and ARBIEOING duty afloat In A, th d t ' FJLRDLE and the cruiser VINCENNES until the: sflfiiiagygf He next had instruction in ordnance at the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Maryland, and at the outbreak of World War II was continuing the course at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of.Technology. He received the degree of Master of Sci- ence with specialty in electrical engineering from the latter in 1942 and was then assigned to the Antiaircraft Training and Test Center, Dam Neck Vir ' ' ' , glllla as Officer in Charge of the Bureau of Ordnance Test Unit. In February 1943 Captain Slack joined the SOUTH DA- KOTA as Assistant Gunnery Officer and for meritorious .ixachievement in that battleship in the European and l t th F CAPTAIN LESLIE M. SLACK a er e Q acific combat areas in 1943 and 1944, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V , In July 1944 he trans- ferred to the cruiser OKLAHOMA CITY to serve as Gunnery and Executive Officer until December 1945. For meritorious achievement in the Pacific combat area in this ship, he was awarded the Commendation Ribbon. He served as head of the Armament- Branch in the Office of Naval Research, Navy Department for three years and in December 1948 assumed command of the destroyer STRONG. During 1950 and 1951 he was Officer in Charge of Guided Missile Unit No 21 attached to the NORTON SO , . . UND, after which he had duty as Guided Missile Officer on the staff of Command r O t' ' ' e pera ional Development Force. In this billet he actively participated in the conversion of MISSISSIPPI as an experimental ship to evaluate the Terrier Missile. In 1953 Captain Slack was a student at the Naval War College and after command of Destroyer Division 102, reported in September, 1955 as Systems Director, Surface Weapons Systems in the Bureau of Ordnance. In this assignment, he was responsible for the research and development phases of ll a surface launched guided missiles fincluding Terrior, Talos, and Tartar missilesj. In the summer of 1958 he was ordered to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, for duty in connection vvith the conversion of the OBSERVATION ISLAND,.as.sum1ng command upon commissioning of this Polaris missile test ship on December 5, 1958. R 1' d f th's duty in early January, 1960, he assumed commsifdlvgf tlhe missile cruiser, GALVESTON on February 11, 1960. . Captain Slack married the former Miss S. Catharine HOP- kins of Annapolis, Maryland on July 3, 1937. The captain's official home address is Grand Rapids, Michi- gan. CAPT L M SLACK '