Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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CAPTAIN DEMETRIUS J. VELLIS, USN Chief of Staff and Aide Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Eleven Demetrius John ellis was bom June 8. 1916. Follow- ing graduation from the I .S. Naval Academy he was assigned to L ' SS COLOR, DO where he served in the engineering department as a junior division officer. In January. 1941, he reported aboard the destroyer USS D.ALE where he served during the Pearl Harbor attack and in the South Pacific as .Assistant Gunnery Officer, Torpedo Officer, Conmiunications Officer and Gunnery Officer. As First Lieutenant and department head of D. LE he took part in the Komandorski Battle in the .Aleutians in March of 1943. Subsequent assignments took Captain A cilis to duty on I .SS STEPHEN POTTER, as Executive Officer; U.S. Naval Postgraduate School; staff of Conmiander, Battle- ships and Cruisers, Pacific Fleet as .Aide and Flag Secre- tary to ice .Admiral Delany, and the destroyer USS PHILIP, where as Commanding Officer he received the Bronze Star with combat device during the Korean Con- flict. I ' pon cessation of hostilities in Korea Captain A ' ellis saw duty as Pacific Fleet Enlisted Distribution Officer on the staff of Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet; Executive Officer of ISS ROCHESTER; head of the .Academic Division of the Executive Department at the Naval .Academy; and Conuiianding Officer of the attack cargo ship L S.S M.ATHEWS before assuming his present duty as Chief of .Staff and .Aide to Commander, Cruiser- •U3 J|3 E[[[JOU J3 OJ)S3Q

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CAPTAIN ASBURY COWARD, USN Commanding Officer Asbury Coward was born No cmber 4, 1914. Following graduation from the l.S. Naval Academy in 1938 he was assigned to ISS LEXINGTON and sur ived the sinking of that vessel in May 1942. In 1943 he was awarded the Bronze .Star Medal while ser ing on board ISS WI- CHIT. . Captain C oward returned to the Naval .Aca- demy in 1946 as a member of the Department of Marine Engineering, and coached the Navy Plebc football team in 1949. .At the time of his departure in 1950 he served as Flag Lieutenant and .Aide to Superintendent of the Naval .Academy. .Subsequent assignments took Captain Coward to duty on the StaflT, Conmiander Cruiser Force, l.S. .Atlantic Fleet: Coimiianding Officer of the destroyer ISS RO- BERT L. WILSON and tours of duty at the .Armed Forces Staff College, Bureau of Naval Personnel and Commander of Destroyer Division 242. Captain Cioward then became C hief of Staff and .Aide to Commander. Destroyer Flotilla SIX and in .August 1958 assumed duty on staff of Coiraiiander in Chief, East- ern Atlantic and Mediterranean Naval Forces. Most recently he served as Director of .Athletics at the L ' .S. Naval Academy. Captain Coward assumed conmiand of LOS .ANGELES in July. 1962. As ;tr approach llw iiid of our operations with 7th Fleet we can look back on a job well done. Each man of LOS ASGELES had made his contribution to the successful accomplishment of our tasks. To each of you I extend my personal gratitude and highest regards. t - C ri-u sJ

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Executive Officer August 1961 to Marcfi 1963 Conmiander George M. Metze recei ed his comniission as Ensign from Midsliipnian School durinc; World War II, having received his Bachelor of Science degree at the I ' nivcrsity of Illinois in 1940 and his Master of Science degree at the University of Iowa in 1942. His first duty was aboard I ' SS FLl ' SSER as First Lieutenant. Subsequent assignments at sea have included tours as Damage Control Assistant on the destroyer USS R.B. ANDERSON and the heavy cru iser I ' SS SALEM; Executive Officer of the destroyer I ' .SS SHIELDS and Commanding Officer of the destroyer I ' SS AGERHOLM. Assignments to shore duty have included billets at Fleet Training Group, Newport Rhode Island; .Service School Conmiand, Naval Training Center, San Diego, as Olficer-in-chargc of the Instructor School and Training Officer; at the Naval Academy as instructor and .Assistant Ciomniittee Head for the Sea and Naval Department, following a postgraduate course at Monterey, California; stafT of Commander, Seventh Fleet; and Fleet Anti-Air arfare Training Center, San Diego. Commander Metze left LOS ANGELES for duty in Washington D.C.. having served as Exccutixe Officer for 19 months, in March of this year. COMMANDER GEORGE M. METZE, USN