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COMMANDING OFFICER ' S MESSAGE This cruise book records another chapter in the biography of our ship. IVe have all had a hand in the making of it. Much of our time has been taken up with hard work; some with adventure; some with pleasure. Few other men have been given such an opportunity as ours to play a part in what will be tomorrow ' s history. Our unique experience together as shipmates will remain, henceforth, a source of satisfaction and pride to each of us. (% V PU Vk V
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CAPTAIN HAROLD PAYSON, JR., became the ship ' s twelfth commanding officer in May, 1957, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif. His previous duty station was the Naval War College, Newport, R.I. There Captain Payson headed the Research and Analysis Department, the Strategy and Tactics Department and was Chairman. Naval Warfare Courses. He has been executive officer of two ships, the destroyer, USS PARKER and the USS ROANOKE, and has commanded three : USS LANG, USS SARASOTA, and this, his present command. During the time CAPT Payson commanded the destroyer LANG it participated in some of the most decisive campaigns of the Pacific War, including the Gilbert-Marshall, Carolines, Marianas, and Leyte Gulf actions. He has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Commendation Ribbon, both with Combat Vs. U. S. Naval Ac- ademy, Class of 1931, and a Rhodes Scholar, CAPT Payson was a United Nations observer with the late Count Fokke Bernadotte during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. He is married to the former Anna Marie Beck of Dresden Germany, and has three sons, Harold III, Charles Beck, and Raymond Perry.
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