Salem (CA 139) - Naval Cruise Book

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- s 1.1 ty g l l rl 1 1 .l an eg .urn 1 1 u m 41 Eff fi? I EAR :XDNIIRAL Tuoxnxs MURRAY STOKES, USN, Commander Cruiser Division Four, was born 2 February 1899 in Fulton, Alabama. , At a very early age his family moved to Meridian, Mississippi where he attended the Meridian public school. He enlisted in the Navy in 1917, in YVorld YVar I, and went through training at Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco. In 1918 he received a Special Order discharge from enlisted service to enter the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. After graduation from the Naval Academy in june 1922, he reported to duty aboard the U.S.S. CONNECTICUT, and thereafter, until early 1941, followed the usual rotation of duty assignments in various types of ships and at shore establishments, which is normal practice in the Navy for training young officers. In February 1941 he commissioned and took com- mand of one of our, then new, destroyers, the U.S.S. GRAYSON QDD-4355, named for Rear Admiral Grayson, Medical Corps, USN. The GRAYSON was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet during the period of tension preceding lVorld lVar II, and was in Iceland on December 7, 1941. In early 1942 the GRAYSON was transferred to the Pacific and was REAR ADMIRAL T. M. STOKES United States Navy Commander Cruiser Division Four a part of the Task Force which took General Doo- little and his fliers close to the shores of Japan and launched them on the Tokyo Raid in April 1942. After this operation he was transferred from the GRAYSON to the U.S.S. CUSHING QDD-3765 as Commander of Destroyer Division TEN. The CUSHING was lost in combat, sunk by gunfire in the Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942. On 27 November 1942 Commander Stokes was assigned Executive Oflicer of the U.S.S. HELENA operat- as ing in the South Pacific, thence to the U.S.S. MAS- . A d SACHUSETTS as Chief of Staff to Comman er Battleship Division EIGHT, and in February 1944 as assi ned duty to commission and command an w g attack transport, the U.S.S. BARNSTABLE QAPA- 931. In August 1944 Captain Stokes was assigned duty Head of the Department of Marine Engineering, as U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Fol- . . . d h lowing this shore assignment, he commande t e U.S.S. IOW'A QBB-61j and has recently completed t lr of dut in the Office of the Chief of Naval a ot y Operations prior to duty with Cruiser Division FOUR. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in August 1948 while on duty in the Navy Department, Vlfashington, D. C.

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CAPTAIN T. H. HEDERMAN United States Navy Former Chief of Staff Commander Sixth Fleet , APTAIN T. HENRY HEDIQRMAN, La Jolla, California, was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1923, where he was cap- tain of the baseball team and later served as coach. He has spent the greater part ol his sea duty in destroyers and commanded USS DOVVNES in 19110-111. During VVor1d VVar ll he commanded Destroyer Squadron 61 in Task Force 58 and led his squadron into lower Tokyo .Bay one month before Japan capitulated, destroying' a japanese convoy attempting' to sneak out. In 1946-117 he headed the Fleet Training Group, San Diego, and the lollowing' year was Commander Destroyer Flotilla ON1-Q in the Pacihc Fleet. Captain Hederman holds the Navy Cross and Legion ol' Nleril with combat pwwl. ., 'M A .v-wr:-'FA f - CAPTAIN R. L. CAMPBELL United States Navy Chief of Stay? Commalzder Sixth Fleet -1 X Q, .,xP1'A1x Rouigar Lokb CARIPBELL, lmlay Clitv. Nlichigsan, graduated from the U. S. Naval .Xcatleiny in 1921. Following graduation he served on the l'SS PENNSYLVANIA, USS ROBERT SMITH. and the USS PREBLE. Later he was Aide and Flag' Lieutenant on the stafl' ol' Commander Cruiser Division THREE. ln 1935 he assumed command of the USS R.-XIL, later commanded the USS SE- QUO1.-X and the USS TRIPPE. His next sea assignment was as navigator of the USS .-XL.-XBAM.-X. He participated in the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands t'ampaig'ns. Alter various assignments with Destroyer Sq nadrons and shore duty he was ordered to duty as Chiel' of Stall, Com- mander SIXTH FLEET. 3 ..,i...-..-.-..-0.-..M-1-f.,.l ll . ,i tl ts M 1 lf ,. li IE is 1 1 1 1 E v'l

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CAPTAIN A. L. REED United States Navy Chief of Sta-0' Commander Cruiser Division Four Y r ' frr A .A 1 A A i ' A s A A -A - A A rrrr A , A A A W Commander Cruiser Division Four and Staff wp'- v ff