Grand Canyon (AD 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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Executive Officer Commander Charles K. Williams. USN, was bom December 5. lSr28. in Lexington. North Carolina, where he lived until graduating from LexingtcMi High School in June 1947. He was a member of the NROTC Unit at Penn State, where he received a B.S. degree in Engine«ing. and up- on graduation was commissioned Ensign in the IS. S. Na% ' - His first duty was aboard (.S5 Cambria ' APA-36 . followed by Staff duty with Commander . mphibious Group Four, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, aboard CSS Adirondack (AGC-15): LSS Corry (DDR -SI 7k and Staff duty with Com- mander Naval .Air Force. U. S. .Atlantic Fleet. As a lieutenant he was assigned as Chief Exigine«- of t SS Pocono AGC- 16k during which time he wais prcMsoted to Ueotenant commaiKleT. His next duty was Executive OfiBcer of f ' SS Kraus ' EDD-S49k followed b - tendance at the L . S. Naval Postgraduate School. Monterey. Califoraia. In July 1964 he was transferred to the Staff of CommaiMler Naval Strik- ing Support Forces Southern Europe at Naples. Itab ' . a NATO oaaunand. Ha -ing been promoted to commander 1 March 1966. he was next tiansSetred to the f ' SS Wright CC-2K homepwrted at Norfolk. Virginia, wliere he served as Operations Officer. He reported aboard Grand Canyon 6 September 1967. Commander Williams earned the Na - Expeditionary Medal (Cidban Oper- ations) while ser -ine on board Kraut-.

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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.

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CAPT W, A, SIMCOX, USN Commanding Officer July 1966 - June 1967 CDR C. C. ANGLEMAN, USN Executive Officer February 1966 - September 1967