McCloy (DE 1038) - Naval Cruise Book

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is .Q C ss' LCDR. DAVID T. ROGERS . gg. t 4 Commanding Officer in Norfolk, Virginia and was assigned to the Plans Division. Three months later he was selected as Aide to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations to the Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet and served in that capacity for two years. ln June 1966 Commander Rogers was ordered as executive officer of the destroyer USS Manley CDD-9403. He assumed command of lVlcCloy on 9 Nlay 1968. Commander Rogers was married January 27, 1962 to the former Jean Margaret Johnson of To- ronto, Ontario, Canada. They have two daughters, Carolyn Jean, aged four years and Helen Elizabeth, aged eighteen months. lieutenant Commander David Taylor Rogers was born on Nlay 22, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended primary and secondary schools in Dur- ham, North Caroliria where his father, the late Robert S. Rogers was Professor of Classics at Duke University, and where his mother still resides. Commander Rogers received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in June 1956, and soon thereafter attended the U. S. Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, from which he was commissioned an Ensign on lVlarch 1, 1957. His first ship assignment was for three years in the escort destroyer USS Basilone CDDE-8245 in which he served as Combat information and Operations Officer. In lVlarch of 1960 Commander Rogers was re- leased from active duty, and he pursued post- graduate work at Duke University while serving with the Naval Reserve Surface Division in Durham. Returning to active duty in February 1962, he became executive officer of the ocean mine- sweeper USS Exploit CNISO-4405. In February 1964 Commander Rogers reported to the Joint Staff of Commander in Chief Atlantic , 4 4. an HUGH! Standing by for a dignitary, Capt. Rogers gives the sideboys a last minute check. Commanding Officer Awards . . . Captain Rogers presents awards at ceremony in Valparaiso. K i

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LCDR JoHN MCCLOY, NAVAL HERO 4- cCIo was born in Brewster, New York, on Janua I 30 1JE?7hg Zion of James and Margaret .McCann McCIoy. He arg tended public and parochial schools in New York City, and first enlisted in the U. S. Navy on March 7, 1898. Honorably discharged on April 4, 1901, he again enlisted on July 18, 1901. On August 6, 1903, he accepted appointment as Boatswain, and was commissioned Chief Boatswain to date. from July 30, 1909. During World War I he was appointed Ensign Ctemporaryj to rank from October 15, 19173 and Lieutenant ftemporaryi to rank from July 1, 1918, and was commissioned in the latter rank from August 3, 1920. He was transferred to the Retired List of the U. S. Navy in the rank of Lieutenant, after thirty years' service, upon his own request, on July 21, 1928, and on April 27, 1942, was commissioned Lieutenant Commander on the Retired List, to rank from February 23, 1952, having been specially commended by the Secretary of the Navy for per- formance of duty in actual combat. Following his enlistment as Seaman, on March 7, 1898, he served on the USS COLUMBIA, patrolling the Atlantic Coast and Cuba. She convoyed and landed troops under command of General Nelson E. Miles at Guanica, Puerto Rico, and Mc- 'Cloy was one of the crew of the boat which went to rescue the crew of the FOSCOLIA, a British steamer sunk in a collision with the COLUMBIA off Fire Island. In 1899-1902, in the Q Phillippine Islands, he served on the USS MONTEREY, a monitor, 7 and the schooner MANILA, and the gunboats, ARAYAT and ?.- i GARDOQUI. The MONTEREY covered the advance of the Army toward the south from Naila and destroyed enemy guns and works at Olongapog and -the GARDOQUI destroyed enemy commerce while covering landings of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps troops at Manila Bay, Subic Bay and the coast between. During that period he also assisted in the salvage of the ARAYAT, and in the USS NEWARK cruised to Japan and North China, and was in the landing force that attempted the relief of Peking, China. He was discharged at Hong Kong, China, on April 3, 1901 and reenlisted on board the USS MANILA at Cavite, then took part in the landing force to assist the Marines which were attacked by the enemy near Bacor. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, with citation stating: While coxswain, United States Navy, for distinguished conduct in the presence of the enemy in the battles on the 13th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd, of June, 1900, while with the relief expedition of the Allied Forces in China. On board the USS HANCOCK in 1907, he helped extinguish a fire on the USS PAWNEE, which was loaded with powder and shells alongside and the Magazine in which explosives were stored at the Navy Yard, New York. Detached from that vessel in February 1909, he served in the USS FISH HAWK and USS FRANKLIN, and after assisting in fitting out the USS LEBANON, served on board from her commissioning, in June 1910, until June 1911. While on shore duty at the Naval Station, Key West, Florida, he commanded the USS PEORIA to assist the crew of the schooner CARVER on Tennessee Reef. ln September 1913, he joined the USS FLORIDA, which cruised to the Mediterranean Sea and to the West Indies, and was the beach master for the landing force in the occupation of Vera Cruz. He was awarded a second Medal of Honor, with following citation: For distinguished conduct in battle and extraordinary heroism, en- gagement of Vera Cruz, April 21 and 22, 1914. Led a flotilla of three picket launches, mounting 1-pounders along the sea front of Vera Cruz' in front of the naval school and custom house. The launches drew the combined fire of the Mexicans in that vicinity and thus enabled the cruisers to shell them out temporarily and save our men on shore. His conduct was eminent and conspicuous, and, although shot through the thigh during this fire, he remained at his post as beachmaster for 48 hours until sent to a hos- pital ship by the brigade surgeon. After treatment at the Naval Hospital, New York, he had brief duty on board the USS TENNESSEE, and in 1916 served in the USS MAINE during civilian training cruise. Later that year, he reported to the Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, where he served as Assistant to the Captain of the Yard during the early period of World War I. In December 1917 - January 1918 he commanded the USS ONTARIO in an attempt to free a number of shipping board ships caught in the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and commanded the USS FAVORITE which freed coal vessels caught in the ice on the coast of Main in February 1918. He then had orders to duty in connection with the construction of mine sweepers, and assumed command of the USS CURLEW at the commissioning of that vessel on January 7, 1919. Under his Command the CURLEW took part in the clearing of the North Sea mine barrage in 1919. For distinguished service in the line of his profession as Com- manding Officer of the USS CURLEW, a mine sweeper, engaged in the difficult and hazardous duty of sweeping for and removing the mines of the North Sea Mine Barrage, he was awarded the Navy Cross. As Commanding Officer of the USS LARK, 't f t ' he cruised in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceaansunllefsre wigs merfgclfgwrezrit in July 1925. He then served briefly in the USS PATOKA d US - PHIS, and after a month's treatment at the Naval HospitalarEeagueSlg'aEnI?I Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was attached to the USS DOBBIN from June 15' 1926, until July 14, 1927. He then senled t th N Y ' until transferred to the Retired List, at his owen reqilestimandoweligviaxdy ofazzll active duty on October 15, 1928, after completing thirty years' service Lieutenant Commander McCIoy died ' L ' 24, 1945. Burial was at Arlington Natiolfgl Czf?nl1Ieater5I.eW Jersey on May '

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fhe X. C. Lt. Frank Leigh Kerr was born 4 January 1940 in Titusville, Pa., the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Reid Kerr. Lt. Kerr attended Lycoming College, receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business in June 1961. He entered Officer Candidate School in July 1961 and was commissioned as an Ensign in the Naval Reserve in January 1962. Lt. Kerr's first duty station was the USS San Marcos where he served as main propulsion as- sistant and communications officer. In December of 1963 he attended Mine Warfare Staff Officers Course. Upon completion of this he went to the USS Observer CMSO-4613 as Executive Officer. From the Observer Lt. Kerr was assigned to Destroyer School and then to USS McCIoy as Engi- neering Officer. ln July 1968 he was made McCloy's Executive Officer. Lt. Kerr is married to the former Roberta Ann Corter of Mill Hall, Pa. They have three children, Tracy Leigh aged five years, Robin Leigh aged four years and Christopher aged eight months. , ,M If lclliig LT. FRANK KERR Executive Officer Lt. Kerr receives letter of commendation from RADM J. A. Dare, U. S. Consolant Shellback day . . . The X. O. fakes a lickin g as McCloy crosses the equator.