Kauffman (FFG 59) - Naval Cruise Book

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...OUR NAMESAKES RADM. DRAPER L. KAUFFMAN (1911-1979) I t,,rn ,in August 4. 1911. Draper Laurence Kaut ' tman graduated from the iiS. Naval Academy in 1933. Poor eyesight denied him acommis- fJ sion in the regular Navy. Employed by the ihiited States Line Steamship Company, his travels in Europe alerted him to the danger of Nazi Germanv. In February. 1940. he joined the .American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in France. On June 16. he was captured by the Germans and held prisoner for two months. Released in August, be made his way to England and was commissioned a sub-Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, later rising to Lieutenant. At the height of the blitz on London (1940-41). he served as a bomb and mine disposal officer, and achieved a high degree of proficiency in bomb disposal technique. . Securing a U.S. Naval Reserve commission a month before Pearl Harbor. Kauffman was rushed to Hawaii after the .lapanese attack and there disarmed an enemy bomb, the first to be recovered intact for study. .After establishing b m]b disposal schools for the Navy and the Army. Lt. Commander Kauffman in 1943 organized the Navy ' s first Underwat- er Demolition Teams. .After commanding all i ' DT ' s in the invasions ofSaipan. Tinian and Guam. Commander Kauffman planned and directed UDT operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His first postwar assignment came in February 1946 when he was a.ssigned to .loint Task Ftirce One. the organization which conducted Operation Crossroads, the atomic bomb tests at Bikini .Atoll. Later under the CNO. as head of the Defen. ' ie and Protection .Section, he established the U.S. Navy Radiological Safety .School, and aided in setting up a comparable .school for the .Army. In 19. ' )4, Captain Kauffman served in the Strategic Plans Division under the CNO and in I9 ' i. ' i was appointed aide to Secretary of the Navy. Thomas S. Gates. Jr. In Julv of 1960. Kauffman was selected as Rear .Admiral. In 196 ' J. he became Chief of the Strategic Plans and Policy Division. In 1965. he became the 44th Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Academy where he .served for three years. His next assignment was as the Commander of the U.S. Navy Forces in the Philippines and Representative of the Commander in Chief Pacific, a billet once filled 25 years earlier by his father. On June I. 1973, Admiral Kauffman retired from the Navy. Rear Admiral Kauffman married the former Margaret Cary Tuckerman on May I, 1943. ' They had three children: Margaret Cary, Draper Laurence. Jr. and Edith Kelsev.

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THE KA UFFMANS . . , VADM. -lAMKS L. KAVFFMAN (ISS7-1963) LJ urn ill Ohidiin April IS. I8H7. Junies Lnurfiico KnulYiDnii ;it If ruled I ' eiinsyl :inin . Iilil:iryC(illef;e. I he Army and Xavy Preparatory School mJ und graduated in 1908 frotn the U.S. Naval .Academy. He held a variety of wide-ranging command billets, ashore and afloat, during World War I. Serving in command of the gunboat RANIER, , s an executive officer of the destroyer C.ALDWKLL, he became Lieutenant Commander on January I. 1918. He transferred from the CALD- WELL to command the Hath-Huilt I ' S.S JKNKIX.S (I)D-l ' Ji. .Admiral Kauffman. during his career, spent wore time in command and more lime at sea than any other officer of his lime. .At the end of the war. Kauffman returned to the L ' .S. to commission and command a new ship, the I ' SS B.ARNEY (DD 149). In November of 1920. he became the executive officer of the new Radio Division of the Bureau of Engineering. IN May of 192:1. he was appointed Naval Aide and Flag Secretary to Admiral S.S. Robinson. Commander in Chief. U.S. Fleet. In June of 1925. Kauffman was selected to the rank of Commander. His next tour of duty iias as a nieml)er of the I ' .S. Naval Mission to Brazil. .Appointed Captain in 19:i6. Kauffman served as commanding officer of the I ' S. ' .ME.MPHIS and later at the shipyard at Mare Island. In 1911. Rear .Admiral Kauffman was sent by President Roosevelt to establish and command a Naval Operating Base in Iceland. In 1942, as the principal Navy anti-submarine expert, he commanded the (hilfSea Frontier which included the Gulf of Mexico north to the shores of the Carolinas. Under his dynamic leadership, the L ' -boat menace in that area was checked. Kauffman later became the senior member of the .Allied .Anti-submarine Survey Bt ard. evaluating ASW techniques for Roosevelt and Prime .Minister Churchill. Moving on to the Pacific in 1943, he assumed command of all the Pacific Fleet ' s crui.fcrs, destroyers and frigates: 401 ships with 150.000 men. In October 1944. he reported to General Douglas McArthur as Commander Philippine Sea Frontier. In May of 1946. Vice Admiral Kauffman returned home and was assigned to duty as the Commandant of the Fourth Naval District where he remained until he retired in 1949. His second career began the day after termination of his first. .As the lirst President of Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson Medical Center, a position he retained for 10 years, he presided over the greatest period of growth in Jell ' er. on ' s history. He was married to the former Elizabeth Kelsey Draper for nearly 54 years. Their daughter. Elizabeth Louise, married Prescott S. Bush. Jr. Their son. Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman married the former Margaret C. Tuckerman.

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SYMBOLISM SHIELD: The coat of arms honors the aggregate naval service of Vice Amiral James Laurence Kauffman and his son. Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman. Both father and son were awarded the Navy Cross, symbolized by the two crosses on the white and blue portions of the shield. Dark blue and gold are the colors traditionally associated with the Navy and denote the sea and excellence. The heraldic dolphin, resting below a wavy line, is . vmbolic of vigilance and maritime power and also alludes to affiliation of both men with sub-surface naval missions: such as the elder Kauffman ' s formulation of World War II anti-submarine strate- gies and his son ' s establishment of the Navy ' s first Underwater Demolition Team. ( REST: The trident, symbolic of sea power, alludes to Vice Admiral Kauffman ' s World War I career when he spent more time in command and more time at sea than any other officer of his time: and his World War II Pacific Fleet command for which he received a second Legion of Merit. The bomb represents the achieve- ments of Rear Admiral Kauffman as a bomb-disposal expert and organizer of World War II Bomb Disposal .Schools for both the Navy and Army. The lightning bolts reflect the insignia worn by Naval personnel in the professional specialties associated with the areas Rear Admiral Kauffman was instrumental in establish- in f. The blue stars on the laurel wreath refer to each man ' s rank. MOTTO: On a .-scroll azure doubled are the words TOUJOURS EN VEDETTE (Always on Guard) in gold letters.