Soley (DD 707) - Naval Cruise Book

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.M fr wi Qw-Hluf 'i' CCMMANDHC lJl1,ll-rfi'Yll- '-Ullfxlll-I YN YVVK CAPTAIN W l, llklwl-,ll Capfoin William E. Ferrell, o groduolf- ol ilu- ll 2 I-law? fund:-my .i, rlw- r 1.-ff .J l'-L 'X lm-4 bmah-ilwig:fund duiroyor duty before beginning on extensive four in wlmvurim-1 In if.n.'rw,ilin5 UH...-r .il ll' '. ',n.i-im,-,v, he muh live we pwrols in the South Pacific. Lclfer he become Commondrr ol zulmuovine- pquudvrm -lr in lsnllm-il l :mul func llmy 1005- lxlm VC KUNG in 1950-1951 os commending officer of USS Boylii-ld CAPA-3139 A Alblilg s Darrel D Ruebsamen li Tlmndf pf , V 00? l ll l' l 4 I. I 1 l I 4 r i E' i lf 5 2 Z A 5 i l l r l my wi f i-H3 lump : LT. W 3 2 F V, H If HM 'V i V P W if . . , 11 . J 5 ,,,,, , ,pta My ' Q f S I fri

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THE CAPTAIN Commander John G. Messer was born in Boston, Mass., on April 10, 1918, and was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in the class of 1941. During the war years 1941 - 1942 he saw destroyer duty escorting convoys in the North Atlantic and working with the British Home Fleet out of Scapa Flow. In 1943 and 1944 more des- troyer duty took him to the Pacific Theatre for the battles of Makin and Tarawa, and later operations brought him to the Aleutian Islands. Post GraduateSchool in Ordnance Engineering occupied most ofthe ears 1945 and 1946. This was followed by three years of sea duty divided between a destroyer mine- layer, a high speed destroyer transport, and a heavy carrier, then two years of shore duty at the Naval Mine De ot, Yorktown, Va. After being transferred, from duty on the Staff ofthe Commander in Chief, U,S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean at London, England, Commander qflesser returned to the United States to assume command of U.S.S. Soley on December 5, 1953. .,,1 1

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ink 'T uaagwkm. I QQ EXECUTIVE OFFICER LCDR G.B. GORDON Lieutenant Commander Grant B. Gordon received his commission at Northwestern University. During the war he participated in Atlantic Convoy duty, patrol operations in the English channel area ,and in the invasion of Nor- mandy. Also he served inthe Pacific, during magic carpetdays, as Executive Officer of U. S. S. Clermont CAPA-l43l . Afterottendin Line School at Newport and teaching navigation to NROTC students at the University of Kansas, Mr. Gordon boarged Soley off Korea in August of l952. l X E DEPARTMENT HEADS LTJG Fmncic E. McDonald 5uPPlYi LT JG William D. SUYQU En9ln99 ln9i l-TJG CDUYISS A- Windns, Gunnery and LT JG H, Berkley Hodges, Jr. , Operations