Intrepid (CVS 11) - Naval Cruise Book

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Rear Admiral James W. O'Grady relieved Rear Admiral Noel Gayler as Commander, Carrier Division TWENTY in Change of Command ceremonies held aboard the flagship aircraft carrier, USS lNTREPlD QCVS-l lj, while at sea on August fl, l963. The event, taking place on the carrier's flight deck, gave Admiral O'Grady command of Antisubmarine Carrier Group FOUR of the Atlantic Fleet. ln assuming command of Carrier Division TWENTY, Rear Admiral O'Grady continues a successful Naval career which began with his commission as Ensign upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in l936. Barn in Burlington, Vermont, October l2, l9l2, he was reared in Western New York State and graduated from high school in Lockport, New York. l-le was appointed to the Naval Academy in l932, and graduated with a Bach- elor of Science degree. Upon graduation he reported aboard the battleship USS TENNESSEE where he served two years in the engineer- ing, communications and gunnery departments. ln June, l938, Admiral O'Grady began flight instruction at NAS, Pensacola, Florida, and was designated a Naval Aviator in September l939. Before returning to Pensacola as an aviation instructor in l911l, he performed duties as Gunnery Officer of Bombing Squadron SEVENTY-ONE, which was embarked on the aircraft carrier USS WASP. During World War ll Admiral O'Grady served in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters on board USS PYBUS and USS WAKE lSLAND, both small carriers. The WAKE ISLAND was awarded the Navy Unit Citation for actions in battles at lwo Jima, Linguyan Gulf, and Okinawa in the Pacific, and was credited with sinking a German U- boat while conducting hunter-killer tactics in the North Atlantic. Following the close of World War ll in l9115, Admiral O'Grady reported ashore for duty at the Bureau of Ord- nance, Washington, D.C., where he served in the Aviation Ordnance Maintenance Section. Following this duty in l9-48, Admiral O'Grady was Commander Carrier Air Group ELEVEN on the USS VALLEY FORGE. ln 19119, he was Assistant Operations Officer on the Staff of Commander Air Force, Pacific, and in l95O he reported for a two- year tour of duty as Aide and Flag Lieutenant to Admiral A.W. Radford, then Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet. Admiral O'Grady returned for a year of shore duty in 1952 as a student at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, prior to assuming duties as Executive Officer of the carrier USS KEARSARGE CCV-33D homeported at San Diego, California. ln July, l95l1, he again reported to Washington, spending two years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Military Assistant to the Deputy Defense Secretary, the l-lonorable Robert B. Anderson. Returning to sea in 1956, Admiral O'Grady took his first command as Captain of the USS VALCOUR QAVP-55l, a small seaplane tender homeported at Norfolk, Virginia, and deployed for six months to the Persian Gulf. Fol- lowing a two-year billet in the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, he assumed com- mand ofthe attack aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE CCVA-625. Admiral OlGrady in i960 was appointed Chief of Staff to Commander Carrier Division SIX, who at the time was Admiral D.L. McDonald, the present Chief of Naval Operations. l-le was relieved of this duty aboard the flagship USS SARATOGA in Palermo, Sicily. Following his duty with Carrier Division SlX, Admiral O'Grady reported to overseas shore duty in Japan where he was Pacific Command Operations Liaison Officer, at Fuchu Air Station, l-leadauarters of the Commander, United States Forces in Japan. Returning to the United States in August l963, he boarded the flagship USS lNTREPlD to assume command of Carrier Division TWENTY and Task Group 83.11. Rear Admiral O'Grady is married to the former Miss Virginia l'lelen Knowles of Lockport, New York. They pre- sently reside with their two sons, James, Jr., and Thomas, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Credits COMM!-XNDING OFFICER CART John C. Lawrence SENIOR ADVISORS CDR Carl J. Seiberlich LCDR Donald J. Rothenberger AUTHOR and Eoiton LTligl A. Frederick Greenberg CONTRIBUTORS ENS Richard L. Earl ENS Eliot A. Denniston LTCigl Erancis C. Zolli LTligl H. William Heil ENS William T. Morgan STAEE LTligl James R. Connors ENS David C. Rorsons John A. Dipollina, JO3 John L. Watson, AN John E. Trine, SA PHOTOGRAPHS Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C. Nav Department National Archives Washin ton D.C. Y I Q , Naval Rhotographic Center, Anacostia, D.C. USS INTRERID Rhotolab BUSINESS MANAGER LTligl Joseph A. Shaw Bibliography J HISTORY OE THE U.S.S. INTRERID, I6 Aug I9113 - I Mar I9115 Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C. HISTORY OF THE U.S.S. INTRERID, I Mar I9115 - I June i945 Navy Department Library. HISTORY OE THE U.S.S. INTRERID, I Jun l91l5 - I Sep I9-45, Navy Department Library. INTREPID, Action Reports and Logs from Aug I6 ICMA To CIGT-6, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C. Ito, Masanori, Rineau, Roger, THE END OF THE IMRERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, trans. Kuroda, A.Y. Si Rineau, R., New York: W.W. Norton Sr Co., Inc., I962. 9'Morison, Samuel Eliot, HISTORY OE UNITED STATES NAVAL ORERATIONS IN WORLD WAR Il, vols. VII, VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV, Boston: Little Brown and Company, l962. Rotter, E.B., Nimitz, C.W., SEA ROWER: A NAVAL HISTORY, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Rrentiss-Hall, Inc., I96O. Westcott, Allan, ed., AMERICAN SEA ROWER SINCE l775, New York, J.B. Lippincott Co., l957. ii Special mention must be made of the invaluable aid volumes VII, VIII, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV of Samuel Eliot Morison's I5 volume series of the HISTORY OI: THE UNITED STATES NA- VAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, have been in establish- ing a coherent QSVIGVUI picture of the flow of events in the Racif- ic Theatre of action during World War ll. ED. NOTE: The Editor would like to express his gratitude and appreciation to the personnel of the Naval History Division, the Navy Department Library, the Naval Rhotographic Center, the Navy Department National Archives, andthe INTRERID Rhotolab, for the wonderful spirit of cooperation which they all displayed in helping to locate and deliver, on short notice, photographs and information vital to the completion of this book. 6 W + 01 .51 lf' lvtuuz, IBIWXK'