Hailey (DD 556) - Naval Cruise Book

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LT.CDR. B. A. BOOTH Executive Officer March 1953 to December 1954 LT. R. H. BENTLEY Executive Officer From January 1955 LTJG. J. A. DAVIS Chaplain

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I COMMANDER WILFRED K. BRADBURY, U.S.N. Commissioned in 1941, Captain Bradbury has seen varied service both afloat and ashore. He received his first command, LST 73, in 1943, but relinquished it in several months to become CO of LST 61 at Bizerte. Under his leadership she participated in the final stages of the Sicily invasion and the landings at Normandy on D-day. In the closing stages of WW II, he was transferred to the Pacific theatre where he commanded LSM Group 35, taking part in the Japanese surrender and the evacua- tion of American POW ' s from the enemy ' s homeland. For this latter service, he received the Secretary of the Navy ' s Com- mendation. He was with ComPhibGruOne and ComPhibGruThree following the war, and in 1948 assumed the billet ot Executive Officer aboard the DDR Perkins. He has served with ADM Carney as CinCNELM ' s Commanding Officer of the Flag Administrative Unit in London and Naples and with General Ridgeway in USC inCEur in Frankfurt. CDR Bradbury was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on May 8, 1914. He received a BS in Education from State Teachers College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts where he was a letterman in soccer, basketball, and baseball. Columbia University award- ed him an MA in Education.

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LT.JG. W. C. DARWIN Operations Officer LT.JG. J. W. KLOPP Engineering Officer Department Heads LT.JG. A. V. AJEMIAN Gunnery Officer LT.JG. E. GARABEDIAN Supply Officer