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IUVD FHS CAPTAIN DANIEL W. ABERCROMBIE was graduated from Yale University in 1938. He entered the Navy in the summer of 1940 and has since enioyed an inter- esting and varied Naval career. During World War Il, he served as a junior officer aboard several destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific. BROOME CDD-2101, HALE CDD-6421, and AMMEN IDD-6271 carried him into action in the North and Middle Atlantic escorting vital convoys to Iceland, Ireland, Africa, and the Mediter- ranean. Subsequent to the escort duty came Pacific amphibious operations at Tarawa, Hollandia, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Leyte, Okinawa, and raids on Kwaia- lein, plus the South China Sea sweeps. Following the war his duties have included: General Line School, The Armed Forces Staff College, duty with JAMMAT IfJoint American Military Mission for Aid to Turkeyl, and as- signment to the Staffs of the Commander in Chief, At- DEEDS lantic Fleet, Chief of Naval Operations, and Joint Chiefs of Staff. His sea billets have been: Chief Engi- neer and Navigator on COLUMBUS CCG-121, Com- manding Olticer of BROUGH CDE-1481, NOA CDD-8411, and presently PROCYON CAF-611. The Captain is the bread-winner for one of the true-bluest Navy families ever! He is married to the former Helen Ellyson of Annapolis, daughter of the First Naval Aviator, Commander T. G. Ellyson, after whom ELLYSON FIELD is named. Captain and Mrs. Abercrombie have three children: one lovely daughter, Mimi, and two sons: Lieutenant G. E. Abercrombie who is presently assigned to the Staff, Military Assistance and Advisory Group Vietnam in Saigon, and Lieute- nant iunior grade M. G. Abercrombie, presently as- signed to the Polaris submarine, DANIEL WEBSTER CSSBN-6261 as Assistant Engineer. X 4 W 1 ENSIGN . . . . sEPT.194i LIEUTENANTCi.g.I. . ocT.1942 LIEUTENANT . . OCT. 1943 LT. COMMANDER . . OCT. 1945 COMMANDER . JAN. 1954 CAPTAIN . SEPT. 1961
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THE EXEC Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Peters Lieutenant Commander Robert E. Peters was born in Missouri, schooled in that state and, after living in Williamsburg, Virginia for less than a year, moved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa. He entered Drake University where he mqiored in Geography and minored in Meteorology. Subsequent to gradua- tion in 1951 he was commissioned as an Ensign, USN and assigned to his first Duty on USS CHIPOLA CAO-631. From CHIPOLA he reported to CASCADE QAO-161 as First Lieutenant and then to RUSH KDDR-7141 where he served as Gunnery Officer. ln 1956 Mr. Peters com- menced his first tour of well earned shore duty as Officer in Charge of the Gunnery OFficer's Ordnance .....y-'.....L. .. . School at Great Lakes, Illinois. He returned to sea duty in 1959 as Operations Officer on EPPING FOREST CMCS-41, home ported in San Diego, California. Spring of 1961 saw Lieutenant Commander Cselectl Peters reporting to Sunny Southern California for a tour at his adopted home town of San Diego Cspe- cifically Chula Vista where it is said that the sun shines 365 clays per yearl. Mr. Peters served at the Recruit Training Command, San Diego, until ordered to PROC- YON early in 1963. The Exec resides in Chula Vista, California with his wife, the former Pat Johnson of Mitchelville, Iowa and their two children, Kim 4101 and Robbin QD.
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