Helena (CA 75) - Naval Cruise Book

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- Cc ' w Ml Vl II O. I M( h . I - ptain II. » I .ir- ' .n In- i . In- credit over .1 quarter i .1 cen tur y of mi vice with the I 5. Nary. !i r graduating boa the Vi .il ..i.i.m 111 1925, In- hr-t tour | dut) mtu m the coalburner, I SS Texas. Next be served in tin- I SS Oklahoma and after two jean o4 service in battleahipe treat t - destroyers lor I reara. During this pe r iod In- li.nl coananand of tin- hall., the Hamilton ami the I ' rineli ' . II.- ha- loin- aiandrrl Destroyer Squadron TIIKI.I and troyer Divisions 71, 80, 12 and 31. Dur- ing V or hi NX .ir II « aptaio I araoo suved in Im.iIi the North Atlanta and in the South I ' . i ' iln tln-ut I ' l.nii I araon i shore lut baa jnctndod a postgraduate ' our-, m nsecfaanacal engi peering ami the acquisition of ■ Master o4 Science degree .11 the I niversitj of - 1 1 - Eornia. Hi- sured al the Naval Boiler l-ah- oratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on oinlii li .in.j NO Staffs, Washington, I). ... and immediate!) prior t boarding the Helena, .1- ommanding Officer of the Service Scl I- ( — ai the Naval I raining I enter in San I tiego. Tin- %.i- aptaiil I ar-oiT- -. ..ml tour i»l ilut i.n beai uuiaus, bis iir-t bai big 1 In- -.t ic .- .1- In. I of Maff to ( unit rul)i THREE mi the Helena three ream aptain I arson holds the Legion i Merit ami the Bronae Star, with combat .li-tin- guishing dei m e.

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m A. lb ' ». CAPTAIN L. H. MARTIN, U.S.N., COMMANDING OFFICER

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Captain D. I. Thomas is a graduate of the Naval Academy ' s class of 1932. His ser- vice time has been about equally divided between cruisers and destroyers. Before World War II he served on the Pensacola, the Trenton, the Borie, the McCormick and the Shubrick. During the war Captain Thomas was navigator of the Pasadena and commanded the destroyers Lea and Massey. Captain Thomas came to the Helena from a one-year course in personnel administra- tion at Leland Stanford University, for which he received a Master of Arts degree in education. Other shore duty has included a post-graduate course at Annapolis and a tour as Executive Officer of the Naval Sta- tion at Annapolis. On 2 July 1951, in Yoko- suka, Japan, Captain Thomas was relieved by Commander B. A. Clarey as Executive Officer. CAPTAIN D. I. THOMAS, U.S.N. COMMANDER B. A. CLAREY, U.S.N. EXECUTIVE OFFICER For the past 14 years, Cdr. B. A. Clarey has been attached either at sea or shore sta- tions associated with submarine duty. A graduate of the Naval Academy, Class of ' 34, he completed Submarine School in 1937. On the fateful morning of December 7, 1941, he was Executive Officer of the submarine Dolphin, then at Pearl Harbor. At Brisbane, Australia, in 1942, Cdr. Clarey was taken ill and detached from a sub two hours before she sailed on patrol — a patrol from which she never returned! One of his duties in- cluded the submarine Peto, first warship ever built on the Great Lakes. As the com- manding officer of the submarine Pintado, he made four war patrols in the Pacific. In June, 1945, he went to the staff of Commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet for six months, and then to the Office of the Inspector General, Navy Depart- ment, Washington, D. C, until April of 1947. After serving for 26 months as aide and Flag Secretary to the Commander, Sub- marine Force, Atlantic Fleet, at New Lon- don, Conn., he became Submarine Detail Officer in the Bureau of Naval Personnel at Washington, where he remained until ordered to the Helena.