Muliphen (AKA 61) - Naval Cruise Book

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H -Rigid Ms T if JE I AS .f COMMANDER JACK F. HEARD EXECUTIVE OFFICER CAPTAIN SAUNDERS PRESENTS CDR . CROOK WITH SHIP'S PLA- QUE, AS HE IS RELIEVED BY CDR. HEARD.

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1 1 sl' I M q I .I , CAPTAIN THOMAS F. SAUNDERSI COMMAND! G OFFICER FRAN- CAPTAIN THOMAS F. SAUNDERS, A NATIVE OF FRESNO, CALIPORNIA, ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN THELSSSGINEER- CISCO AND BERKELEY AREA . HE RECEIVED THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICA UNIVERSITY ING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, IN MAY 1939. WHILE ATTENDING THE EAR BE' HE WAS MEMBER OP THE NROTC UNIT, RECEIVING HIS COMMISSION AS AN ENSIGN IN THE NAVY A Y PORE GRADUATING. O CAPT' IN 19410, WHILE WORKING AS AN ENGINEER FOR ASSOCIATED INDEIVINITY COMPANY IN SAN FRANUSC THE DE' SAUNDERS WAS CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY. HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT WAS A POUR--YEAR TOUR ABOAWRHOMP- STROYER USS BALCH CDD 3635. LATER, HE WAS ORDERED TO COMMAND T1'11f DITSTROYIZRI USS THE PRO- SON CDD 6275. THE THOMPSON WAS LATER CONVERTED TO A MINESWEEI-ER IN F'RLf.15'ARATlON FOR WHILE IN POSED LANDINGS IN JAPAN. POR HIS PART IN MINESWEERING OPERATIONS IN TIIIi EAST CI-IIN-A SEA ENT A5- COMMAND OF THE THOMPSON, CAPT. SAUNDERS RECEIVED THE COMMLNDATION RIUHON- SUBSEQU AT L09 SIGNMENTS INCLUDED TEACHING NAVAL SCIENCE FOR TWO YEARS AT THE LINIVIQRIQIT-Y OV CALIFORNIA SENIOR ANGELES, DUTY ABOARD THE TANKER PASSUMPSIC OPERATING IN THD PAC11' IC, AND ATTliND'NG THE COURSE AT THE MARINE CORPS SCHOOL AT QUANTICO, VIRGINIA . SER, IN THE SPRING OP 1951 , CAPT. SAUNDERS WENT TO THE OFFICE OF'l'H1'f C1111 I O1 N-NVAI.. OPERATIOEEILDING VING IN THE OPERATIONS REQUIREMENTS SECTION AS COORDINATOR IDR VIII NAVY'S ANNUAL SHlP1953.HE PROGRAM AND AS A WORKING MEMBER OF THE SHIP CPIARACTERl93,1AIfUfQw ETOAHTI, I T,wINI'- CNC 'N EQUENT- ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE RADAR PICKET SHIP, USS ROGERS CDDR S'!Ij11N IHI IEIAI5-II IC AND SUBS LY REPORTED TO THE COMMANDER NAVAL FORCES, PHILIPPINES . WASH'- CAPTAIN SAUNDERS REPORTED ABOARD THE MULIRHEN FROM THE NAVAI 1'-Q1'11f X12H'Il l,,,AI11ORATORYCAPTAIN INGTON 25, D.C. WHERE HE SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION AND 1'7l1'llYAY IDIFWCTOR' RE5'DE SAUNDERS, HIS WIFE, HELEN AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN, THOMAS F., I IIVI II, AND ,IDAN, STEVEN' IN FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA. II.. Mil..1.4T

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