Grand Canyon (AD 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS GRAND CANYON (AD-28) May 1967 - April 1968

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Chronology 9-12 MAY 1967 — EarIe,N.Y. 12-15 MAY1967 — New York City 15-21 MAY 1967 —Newport 22 MAY-21 AUG 1967 —Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y. 22-25 AUG1967 — Earle.N. J. 26 AUG-8 SEP 1967 — Newport 9-28 SEPl967 — Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 29 SEP-2 OCT1967 — SanJuan, P. R. 6 OCT-23 NO VI 967 — Newport 6 DEC 1967-12 APR 1968 — Naples, Italy 25 APR 1968 — Newport

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Commanding Officer Captain HarmiMi C. Penny. USN. took conunand of t ' SS Grand Can- yon on 30 June 1967. He was bom in 1922 in Ashtabula. Ohio, later mo -ing to the San Diego area where he gradu- ated from high school. He enlisted in the Army, but trans- ferred to the Na when he entered the Naval Academy under the appointment of Senator Roben A. Tafi. Com- missioned with the class of 1946. he was assigned to tSS Alaska CB-1) in tlie Western Pacific shortly before the end of World War II. He was later as- signed to t ' SS Tucson CL-B8 and then to LSMR 403 during the Korean con- flict. A year as an instructor at the Naval Academy was followed by three years of postgraduate study, completing at the California Institute of Technolog ' with an Aeronautical Engineer degree in jet propvdsion. Successive duties included Gunner - Officer aboard L ' SS Massey fDD-778); COMCRIDIV rue Staff aboard USS Los Angeles CA-133 : TALOS Technical Officer at White Sands. New Mexico; Executive Officer aboard USS Jenkins iDDE-447 : and Commanding Officer of CSS Vance DER-3S7). Vance participated in Operation Deepfreeze in the Antarctic in 1961. After three years at the Bureau of Naval Weapons, he took command of USS Tourers iDDG-9) in oi)erations with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Vietnamese area during two separate deplovments. His last previous duty was Navy Deputy to the joint Army Nav - SAM-D Project at Redstone Arsenal, Hunts alle, Alabama.