Hoel (DDG 13) - Naval Cruise Book

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MESSAGE FRCM TI-IE CAPTAIN U.S.S. HOEL CDDG-137 FLEET POST OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA I 16 June 1963 To the Shipt Company USS HOEL, HOEL hai been in conmiition one yeah today. Uaaing thii yean aenain with hen thaoaghoat hen Aithoagh that aepatation and wade by the peopie who man hen now and otheab who have Aince depaated. ' the nepatation and Apiait that unity Aenvice ii5e hat been ettabiiihed. Apiait,beiong to the bhipt they ane Tl' h oh it about peopie--The gine deitaoyenmen aho have made I I tio o HOEL the Amaht Ahip the it today. 'In the yeani ahead, whethen we h itin advance in the Navy on netaan to civitian ii5e, thii boo w aecaii mewonieb 05 the way we did it in the HOELH. In a new Ahip Aach at HOEL, oan expenienced O55iceaA,.Chie5 Petty Oggiceni, and Petty O55icenA pain thein pnogeiiionai hnow-how gained in many diggenent Ahipi on to the newty annived necnaita. Bat even npae iwpontant than thit, ae ieaan to none togethen--to Aonm amat it comwoniy known at a UAhip'A companyn--a chew who wonhb at a team to accompiith oua mibiion--whethea it'A Ateaming at 54 hnott, gining a TARTAR wnibiie to hit, catching a Aubmanine, nanning an ain -inteacept, winning a cake-baking conteit, on whatevea eiie a baby deitnoyenman it catied upon to do. Since conndiiioning on 16 Jane 1962, we og HOEL have ieanned ati theie wany taAhA, and mane too. we have npnhed tang dayi and nightt to Ahanpen oun many Ahiiii and we have tnaveied a gneat diitance Aince the Ahip'A beginning in Botton. Mott iwpontant, we have ieaaned to putt togethea in wonh on piay. we have now a Ahip og which we can ati be jattiy paoud-- o5 hen acconpiiihmenta to date and hen capabiiity gon the gatuae. we have wade HOEL what the ii, and in the yeanb ahead ae anti add to hen gnoanng aepatation Aon being a ncan-don Ahip aemmmbening that Ha Ahip it onty at good at hen cnewn. J It Let'A mahe eveny day a NHOEL-idayn. 1 if I 4 U! I I5 'UI a X 'N t .I . I J., film

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CAPTAIN JAMES D. OLIVER JR USN Captain Oliver Commander Destroyer Division TWELVE, was born in Birmingham, Alabama. After raduating from high school, he attended the University of Alabama and Marion Military Q Academy for one year prior to being appointed to the Naval Academy in 1939 as a Midship- man. Upon graduating from the academy and receiving his commission as Ensign in June 1942, he reported aboard U.S.S. CRAVEN lDD-382l and participated in the South and Central Pacific Naval Campaign from Guadacanal in November 19-424 to the Philippines in October 1944. During the latter part of the war, he served in the Atlantic aboard U.S.S. MCDOUGAL lAG-l26l, Since the vvar, Captain Oliver has served as Commanding Officer' of U.S.S. LST-601, U.S.S. CURRIER lDE-7001 and U.S.S. WEDDERBURN lDD-684l. He has also had duty in Washington, D-C- where he served as aide to the Chief of Naval Personnel, and at tl .5. V 'I Academy, ' v fl if P P wi X lx i