Rodman (DD 456) - Naval Cruise Book

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With the skeleton crew and with emergency phone rigged between the control engine room, secondary conning station and after steering station, all efforts were bent toward bringing the ship back to port. Through the night she steamed under her own power by magnetic compass with occasional assistanceas to the course to steer being rendered by one of the nearby sweepers. It was 0330 on April 7, twelve hours after her first hit, that she finally arrived off Kerama Rhetto, the island group southwest of Okinawa that was captured some days before the main invasion and used as a forward base. A rescue tug provided breakfast for officers and crew and brought her into port. in After emergency repairs were completed, in Kerama Rhetto, the RODMAN returned to Charles ton, S. C., for complete repairs. She was in Charleston when the war ended. 19 l

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Time wartime complement of the RODMAN was around twenty officers and two hundred and fifty men. However, the personnel aboard was changing COUSWUUY 35 men who had been trained aboard the RODMAN left her to give their experience to new ships just joining the Beet. following is a list of officers and men who have served on the RODMAN since she was commissioned COMMANDING OFFICERS Commander W. G. MICHELET, USN ...... ......, 1 27 S-42 to 12, 5 42 Commander J. F. FOLEY, USN .......... .......... 1 42 to 10214 F44 Commander W. H. KIRVAN, USN ,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, 1 0514 .44 90 7 2.45 Commander D. M. GRAN STROM, USNR ,,,,,,,,,,,, , ,,,,,, 7fj'721 ..a '45 to 10f2'7'if45 Lieutenant Commander R. H, WHITE, USN ,,-,,,,,,.,, 10I!27:j . f 45