Saratoga (CV 3) - Naval Cruise Book

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VI THE FIRST WAVE OF MARINES HEADS FOR THE BEACH KENIWETOKATOLL,FEBRUARYI94-11

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Today is Medal Day! So began Rear Admiral Samuel P. Grinder, commander of the carrier task group of which Sara was flagship. The great lagoon of Majuro atoll, recently wrested from the lapanese, was the scene of the biggest mass presentation of awards in the ship's history on March 4th, l944. The citations might have been a torture for the ship's company lined up at flight deck parade, had it not been for Captain Cassady's decision to make the awards en masse. lndividual cere- monies were contrived for Commander l-l. l-l. Caldwell, air officer, who as skipper of Air Group 12 had been the hero of Rabaul, Commander I. C. Clifton, colorful successor to Caldwell as CAG 12, Lt. Comdr. Dallas M. Laizure, air operations officer, and Lt. l-larold A. Robinson, landing signal officer, all for their part in the strike on A, ,ff- HM ' '--- '-- . ' :', . . 51 is . ' 'f -X 'M' xv 5.5 , 1 fl I ' DJ' xx QQ, 1 Ti if Q -lf ,, ,I f BER '- X S K sQuADRoN MEM E 1 X x HWING PROVEN HIMSELF TO POSSESS THE I HIGHEST FIGHTING QUALITIES AND THE NESESSA . SERVICE ABOARD THE us.s. snnnroc g n . 3 oumnle JAN. AND FEB. 1944 , as . HEREBY GRANTED ALL THE LIFE 5 O ' PRIVILEGES OF THIS FAMOUS 3 XX FIGHTING SQUADRON. A X g W 5 A ,X J X5 s v- T Q Vi. -5 TW 'ff' 5 Y T- x 1 --fx? -s - 1 I x - fx- 1-' 5 -. 1 IQ.. -rf' ,X ' S ff-J.. . , ,. - sq-VWWWWW I if is ..- -- -0 W -'fi 2 ' Q X-X -, - I f-,xxx A- X-, X N125 gcgj U.: P nf' -In 1, I nugm g , ,,,,.u ,..,- F ,.,' f fn ,J 1 T . , L, .-. ,,,. In I - X . ?..1k btagnsgiccn,:'l,4.r.:::g:.3.,l1l'?:J-.,111-.J.II ,.N.d l.,,.,,...,,,,..-.41n'1f f tm. -1.'f-.Lp'.pL:uf.-M -' - x Inf nn:-rv '-' , Rabaul in November, l943. Commander Thomas U. Sisson, executive officer, was presented the Legion of Merit for previous duty. Two men, Daniel Hildreth, ACMZC, and Philip Rosen, Sea2c, were singled out for their alertness in disposing of a bomb which had dropped from an SBD and rolled down the flight deck, to the terror of all, during the Marshalls operations. But the most popular kudo-winner was indis- putably the Sara's skipper, Cap'n lawn Cass- ady, on whom the Admiral pinned the Legion of Merit. The Admiral concluded the ceremonies by congratulating Sara's officers and men on hav- ing been charter members of the Tallyho Ack- Ack Squadron.