Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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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

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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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Executive Officer since March 1963 Commander Philip H. Klepak enlisted in the Navy in September, 1939 as an Apprentice Seaman. He has held every rank up to his present grade. A graduate of George Washington L ' niversity his duty assignments have included destroyers, amphibious and other type ships during and since orld ' ar II. His shore assignments have included duty on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations; as a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps instructor and .Assistant Naval Attache, Havana, Cuba. During the Korean Conflict he was thirty-six months on destroyers with the Pacific Fleet and received the highest award that he holds, the Bronze Star for combat action. He has had cortunand of the destroyer escort USS O ' BRIEN and most recently the destroyer USS STRONG, having assumed command of the later ship in March, 1961 during operations in the Persian Gulf. Commander Klepak relieved Commander Metze as Executive Officer of LOS ANGELES at Sasebo, Japan in March of this year. COMMANDER PHILIP H. KLEPAK, USN