Oriskany (CVA 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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I w I l 1 l REAR ADMIRAL RALPH W. COUSINS, U. S. NAVY Ralph Wynne Cousins was born in Eldorado, Oklahoma, on July 24, 1915. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy from the Twelfth Congressional District of Michigan in June 1933. He was graduated from the Naval Academy and com- missioned in the U.S. Navy on June 3, 1957. In March 1940, he reported to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for flight training. He completed flight training and was designated a Naval Aviator in December 1940. He was then assigned to Bombing Squadron TWO, and was serving with that Squadron on board the USS LEXINGTON at the outbreak of World War II in December 1941. He was on board the LEXINGTON when it was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea and was awarded the Navy Cross For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous devotion to duty as pilot of a dive bomber against Taoanese forces in the Coral Sea on May 7, 1942 . . . . Among the positions Rear Admiral Cousins has held are: Executive Ofiicer of Bombing Squadron ELEVEN, Commanding Officer of Attack Carrier Air Group ELEVEN, Operations Officer and Executive Ofiicer of the aircraft carrier USS SAIPAN QCVL 48j, Deputy Chief of Staff and Operations Ofiicer for Commander SIXTH Fleet, and Commanding Ofiicer of the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY QCVA 41j. In May 1965, he assumed the duties of Commander Carrier Division NINE and deployed in June of that year to the Western Pacific. While embarked in the attack carriers USS CORAL SEA and USS ORISKANY, he was directly respon- sible for the conduct of aerial strikes by the carriers of Task Force SEVENTY- SEVEN against the communists in Southeast Asia. 6 I ,I U a ,Af 1' 3 i

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ur Present Executive Ufficer Commander Frank T. Hemler, USN, was born on August 13, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He entered the Navy in November 1942 as a Seaman Apprentice under the V-1 program. While in the V-1 program he attended Purdue University as a student of electrical engineering. In 1947 he entered Naval Aviation as a LTJG special- izing in attack aircraft. His more important billets include Main- tenance and Material Oflicer with Carrier Air Wing 1, Mainten- ance Oflicer and Executive Oliicer of Attack Squadron 12, and Executive Oflicer and and Commanding Ofiicer of Attack Squad- ron 212. He holds a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from Naval Postgraduate School 11953, and an M.S. degree in aero- nautical engineering from M.I.T. 1195-ij. He reported aboard ORISKANY as Air Operations Officer in July 1964. He became Executive Officer in August 1965. Commander Hemler is married to the former Miss Arlene Fitz- gerald of Barboo, Wisconsin. They have five children ranging in age from 8 to 19 years and they make their home in Jacksonville, Florida. 5

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