John McCain (DL 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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lieutenant Commander lames H. Doyle, lr., U.S.N. Lieutenant Commander James Henry Doyle, Jr., USN ioined MC CAIN as executive officer in July l959. During the two preceding years he served in the International Law Division of the office of the Judge Advocate General. Graduating from the United States Naval Acade- my in June l9-46, Commander Doyle spent one year aboard the cruiser USS Chicago followed by three years aboard the destroyer USS John W. Thomason. From i950 to i953 he was attached to the office of the Judge Advocate General. During this time he attended post graduate law school at George Wash- ington University in Washington. Returning to sea, the Commander spent one year aboard the minesweeper USS Bulwark after her com- missioning. Leaving the Bulwark in l954, he spent the next three years as commanding officer of the minesweepers USS Ruff and USS Redstart. Commander Doyle and his wife Jeannette have three children, Kathleen Jeannette, lO, James Henry lll, 7, and Anne Jeannette, 3. The Doyles make their home in Pearl City, Hawaii.

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Y I sf? '-li i W il r I tl 1 ' X' i W 3 -lf i 'iQ..e..,,:-' -f , SS John S. MCCQAIIL DL- By LAWRENCE J. RHOADES, JOZ, USN housands watched the sleek, grey ship as she cut her way up the Hooghly River last October to berth at Calcutta, a port city of five million people with the largest natural harbor in northeast India. This was the first time in five years that an American naval vessel had called at the capital' of XYest Bengal. It was also the hrst time that a mod- ern frigate. like Jolm S. .lIfCGli7I, had visited India, where in conjunction with a .five-day good will tour, she was to deliver 555,000 worth of antibiotics and other medicines for victims of the recent floods in that area. Doc- tor N. jungawalla, Director of the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, ac- cepted the shipment, presented on behalf of the United States by the Commanding OHL cer of John S. AlrCaz'n 'Lto strengthen the IN TIIE EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN, JOHN S. McCAlN REPRESENTED ALL AMERICANS During rect-nt good will visits to Calcutta, Rangoon, and Singapore, the officers and men of the frigate were able to visit t-lmraeteristic examples of Far Eastern culture, such as the Buddhaslirine Shwedagon in Rangoon falwucj, to entettain thousands of visitors, including a number of bright-eyed Burmese Boy Scouts Cbnttom, oppositej, and, most important, to bring medicines and food for flood victims in Vilfst Bengal. Miss Maya Banerjee, West Bengal De uty Minister of Relief Cbelowl, helps distribute fruit juices and rice donated by the ship's company to tliie stricken people from the area south of Calcutta. bonds of friendship, understanding, and good will between the free peoples of two great nations. 1 The frigate and her crew also conducted other activities to promote friendship between lndia. and the United States. Among- these were a charity ball at Calcuttals Great East- ern Hotel. organized by the ships crew to raise additional funds for flood relief. football, and basketball gatncs with local Indian tennis, and be-mtl Concerts in the city. Music for the charity ball and the concerts was pro- vided by the seventeen-piece band of the U. S. Seventh Fleefs Destroyer Flotilla ONE. Proceeds, approximately 55I,000, were do- nated to the X'Vest Bengal Flood Relief Com- mittee. The crew also donated 3,500 pounds of foodstuffs from the galley. Prior to the ship's departure from Calcutta on 26 Qcto- ber, the Hlest Bengal government arranged for an Indian cultural program of 'music, dancing, and drama to be presented aboard