Smalley (DD 565) - Naval Cruise Book

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Newport from a different angle The moment for which all hands had so industriously prepared had now become a reality. At 1215 Queen CC-reenwich Civil Time plus four? on 18 May 1958 the Smalley, in company with the other ships of Destroyer Division 302 -Daly, Cotten and Bronson, passed the Bren- ton Reef Lightship at the mouth of Narragan- sett Bay and set course 188 degrees true for Panama. A dense fog prevented the division from getting underway at 0900 as previously expected. However, as we passed the lightship the May sun had started to melt the morning haze and we c.aught a glimpse of the Newport bluffs as they faded in the distance. Before those bluffs would be seen again by Smalley men in bleak January the ship would have steamed over 60,000 miles through more than fifteen seas and oceans and visited at least twenty foreign ports. That thought made the day one of loneliness, wonder and expectation. It was a day of loneliness because of the loved ones and the happy homes we were leav- ing behind us for so many uncertain months. Sfnrewell Ncw,v1frf.f It was a day of wonder over a future which seemed to be measured in endless times and distances interwoven with a myriad of new scenes. It was a day of expectation about our role in the Korean War which at any time could explode into a global conflict. . s-yur' 1 31 ' .. H il ' wi ,Q ...vjmgf ggi? Ei: 1'9' Q il.. V 'j....f: - . A. V 13 ' av B Z , if I a g y 2 f 1' 'Dan boldly 6 5,

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Lieutenant Albert XV. Vittek enlisted in the Regular Navy in 1938. By 1943 he had climbed the ladder from Apprentice Seaman to Chief Quartermaster and in the same year- exchanged the Chiefls crow for the gold bars of an Ensign. Mr. Vittek, during Wforld NVar II, served in Africa, Europe and the PaciHc. His service included several commands among which were the U.S.S. ATR-57, U.S.S. Accolceek ATA-181 and the U.S.S. Alleglzany ATO-19. After ten years of continuous sea duty Lieutenant Vittek came ashore to attend Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, under the Navyis alive termv program. From there he went to General Line School. In 1950 Mr. Vittek reported aboard the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Newpoif News CA-148 and filled the billet of First Lieutenant. On 27 March 1953 Lieutenant V ittek relieved Commander R. Zenneck as Executive Officer of the Smalley. Mr. Vittek makes his home in Baltimore, Maryland. He wears the Cood Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Area Campaign Medal, European-African- Middle Eastern Area Campaign Medal with two stars, Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, NVorld YV ar II Victory Medal, Navy Unit Commendation Award, German Occupa- tion Ribbon, U.N. Service Ribbon, Korean Campaign Ribbon with one star, and the National Defense Ribbon. Lt. ljgj R. M. Reiss, USN Operations Officer Lt. ljgl F. L. Etchison, USN Gunnery Officer Lt. ljgl R. P. Stoudcr, USN Supply Officer 5 LIEUTENANT A. VV. V1'l'TEK, USN Executive Officer Lt. ljgl F. R. R. Smith, USNR Engineer Officer

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Looklng em oxer Before the llghtshlp had vamshed astern the clanglng of the general allrm shatte1ed the preva1l1ng mood and summoned the crew to battle stat1ons Th1s dllll set a t111n1ng pace 'km ws? M Ah. Chi? VICW whrch was to characteuze our shrpboard 1ou t1ne throughout the voyage In the days ahead We would wrstfully 161HGIT1bC1 the V1k1ng Bar and the Rathskelle1 at the M K the Club 200 and the Blue Moon Ocean Drlve and Washlngton Squale As the fam1l1a1 coast dlsappeared and the strange seae engulfed us we mtensely reahzed that fO1 many months to come Newport fO1 us would be nothmg more than a burn1ng II161I101y awww Naval War Colleffe , 7 HHH? . 1 1 f W9 X , 'Wt' 21- X.. K. fr W A a -Q 4 Y' Q- , J 7 J -gc3f - ' ' S f'.va4, 432233359 .mt 344 aff , X eww ' ' wi? ' . l 4 . l . , . . CC 77 . . 7 . . . . . . . 1 , 4 1 1 ' 1 ' 4 C 7 . . .E . o 't M if .t nw .ft ' M' ,f,..f . -f f ' ml . V ' I wa , , I x A K- y 1, f,,.,.,,gf,-T Q , - fa. 4 4 , Y -K ,ig fm- - ., 4 e , .f 1 x, 1 2 4 - - s 4 Q T , Q , 1 K L 5 1