Okinawa (LPH 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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DEPARTMENT HEADZ5 CDR WoIrer E. Saunders, Jr. AIR I-CDR SomueI W. Secresf ENGINEERING 2 Y 5 J C .X. V. I-.T RIcI'aQr'd R. Miller MEDICAL. CDR John D. Kidd OPERATIONS LT james R. W. Mills DECK LCDR Reber! W. Slofer DENTAL. if ll I . , K. -5.0 1' Z..'vI I If .I f I LCDR Robert E. Curry NAVIGATIDN LCDR Clwesfer B. Czornecki SURRLY LT Keith A. Stewart CDMMUNICATIDNS

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EXE CUT VE OFFYCED. CDR Franl4C. Dunham, Jr., was born in Rortsmouth, New Hampshire, 26 February l92O, and is the son of the late Rear Admiral F.C. Dunham and Mrs, Dunham, RADM Dunham QSCJ, USN, retired in i953 as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and Commanding Officer of the Navy Finance Center, Cleveland, Ohio. CDR Dunham was graduated from Harvard University and the NROTC Rrogram in May i943 and reported to USS ARKANSAS CBB SSD in Norfolk the following month. AS Junior turret division officer, he sailed with ARKANSAS on numerous North Atlantic Convoys between Casco Bay, Maine, and Belfast, North lreland. , J ARKANSAS Convoy days ceased the month before the Normandy ,invasion and theold Battlewagortlioined her division QTEXAS, NEVADA, and NEW YORKJ forthe invasion rehearsalfin the irish Sea and eventually the big push. Following Normandy, ARKANSAS again participated in a strategic bombardment at Cherbourg and appeared two months later the' Mediterranean for the Southern France, invasion. Subsequent actions which CDRE Dunham participated with ARKANSAS were those at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. is E ollowing his three years aboard ARKANSAS, he was ordered to the Naval Agcaclemy at f,Annapolis where he was fa Company Offieer ,Bancroft Hall for aperiod ofttwo andy. acne-half years. lt was duringgthis taurlof difiJtyQtlt,alt,ffhe,met and married Doris Faye' Moore .gat Salisbury, Maryland. A Q, sg 'f - A 1 V , , Q I A - i , ,. at ' V vf., in rbss . if . v A .CDR Dunham's next,as,sriQgnQntent,was gtfo bejthe first of a series ofgfivetours of duty in destroyers. He was asisigined'alsjOunnery, on board USS CHARLES R. CECIL- QQDR .8359 in 19418 and a year laterz,,ib'ecarriej.Operations Officer. ln he was ordrerecl td Charleston S C as Executive iOffice'rfof'USS HAMBLETON CDMS' 205 O tOuf7L,.2l'g3f5ti,ng .A w, w-, F l 3 A , N .K , , , l -. , . it r -N , , 5. tire-'A ten month course of instruction at the :General Line School atrMonterey, Californiaj followed by assignment to the ,iteachiriggstaff as a Seamanshipi lnstructor for abouftxi gtwavgt years. ty ! i 1 , .y V. - E -' . Z ' f N M ,. xx 1954 cpe Dufiiiom was Ordefedlio uss Aurtfipp 6985 .fi Norfolk v.fQi5ira,i as f Officer and thereby resumed ,his ..d.est1Qo.y,ep.,,fessociation for' another twokgfear weist sights point that Dunhamffreceived orders to his first ,cornmand her toolaihe plagf ntic extensifcirt fioflwthef DEW LINE - 1, V, if I AQKK 1 -1 1 t I . . . i A ASQSSQM if 'fix 1 ff.. ' , , , ns? . ,, . Z.- ,..... NE .I , f - ix 5- rl-X V f f , fl, ., ...,. ll . .x . QS? ' Webs ' . ix it 'sfii Q QPR fm., .fy , ,. X, ,,, ..., ,I ... . - .,, ,K W, 1. ., . v if r '35 gr 4 QQER 2515 wQf5if'.gG2Q.mm1S,5,t,o,neQe4t'r1..f-l?:?lfi.i.lqgeflplftiC1, lf1.I5lf956 with ,,QDhE,r,,D at i f as QA f V,yV 1 b J S . A I FN :px ls- in 'swf -f, f . ,x 3. jj 3 ,A ln Julylffbf CD.liQ:f1lDunham was detached from USS CAMP? ahdihardiej Otto duty as Executive Officer, Da,tmQut,h ,Qa.l,legegfHe occiUpie,d,th,ifs 3 let for two years before being'afsisii'g,,n:ed'ilto ,Newrwart,F,RgE?f'Qf5Iartd, for duty , . f,.F.vff5y.,i-- - pi 11 3, HI js., gf, S 3, l UL under instruction. .krt ,IX R- N Q? g ,J - Si ff .',- .. . Upon Qraduation received orders to USS CONY QDDE 5085 and assumed commianii 1960. It was from this latter tour of duty that CDR Dunham reported to USS OKINAWA in February 1962 as Executive Officer. ln addition to his wife, Doris, CDR Dunham has one son, Dale, aged lO, both of whom presently reside in Norfolk, Virginia.

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EYECUTYVE STAFF Q l 13 LTJG Joseph A. Clork Sl-llR's SECRETARY ENS Pool R. Keller PERSONNEL OFFICER J- ,fp K -. . 1 l .,-f ' l.COR Donald F. Kingsley, Jr Cl-lARLAlN CAPT Roberf M. Jordon COMBAT CARGO OFFICER , ENS Russel B. Goddard l 8 E OFFICER ENS B. H. Puce, Ill PIO OF'l lfER