Stevenson (DD 645) - Naval Cruise Book

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----I-sq .zaff 4.146 W 5 tewzwmll Wadke, New Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea C140 mi.l. . . Hollandia, New Guinea to Buna, New Guinea C745 mi.l. Buna, New Guinea to Milne Bay, N. Guinea C60 mi.l .... Milne Bay, N. Guinea to Buna, New Guinea C60 mi.l .1 .... Buna, New Guinea to Moroby Bay, N. Guinea C 180 mi.l ...... Moroby Bay, N. Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea C300 mi.l. Hollandia, New Guinea to Biak, Schoten Is. C300 mi.l .... Biak, Schoten Is. to Hollandia, New Guinea C300 mi.l .... Hollandia, New Guinea to Biak, Schoten Is. C300 mi.l .... Bialc, Schoten Is. to Hollandia, New Guinea C300 mi.l. Hollandia, New Guinea Wadke, New Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea Wadke, New Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea Noernfoor, New Guinea to Wadke, New Guinea C145 Hollandia, New Guinea C145 to Wadke, New Guinea C145 Hollandia, New Guinea C145 C375 to 1 N oemfoor, N. Guinea mi.l mi.l mi.l mi.l mi.l to Hollandia, New Guinea C375 mi.l. . to Madang, New Guinea C360 mi.l. . . Madcmg, New Guinea to Wadke, New Guinea C495 mi.l Wadke, New Guinea to Sansapor, New Guinea C540 mi.l. Sansapor, New Guinea to Hollandia, New Guinea C670 mi.l. . Hollandia, New Guinea to Aitape, New Guinea C120 rni.l .... Aitape, New Guinea to Finschafen, N. Guinea C540 mi.l ...... Finschafen, N. Guinea to Florida G Guadacanal Is. C720 mi.l. . Hollandia, New Guinea Guadalcanal to Peleliu, Palau Is. C1835 mi.l ..... -.fvosaa Peleliu, Palau Is. to Seeadler Harbor, Manus C930 mi.l .... Seeadler Harbor, Manus to Majuro, Marshall Is. C1555 mi.l. . . Majuro, Marshall Is. to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii C1950 mi.l. . Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to Seattle, Wash. C2580 mi.l ....... Seattle, Wash. to San Diego, Calif. C1710 mi.l. .. San Diego, Calif. to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii C2285 mi.l ..... Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to Ulithi Islands C3330 mi.l ...... Ulithi Islands to Two Iirna Area Cat seal C990 mi.l .... -Iwo lima Area Cat seal to Ulithi Islands C990 mi.l ..... Ulithi Islands to Okinawa Area Cat seal C1170 mi.l ..... flYOkinawa Area Cat seal to Ulithi Islands C1170 mi.l .... Ulithi Islands to Okinawa Area Cat seal C1170 mi.l ...... 'l'Ol-:inawa Area Cat seal to Leyte, Phil. ls. C1050 mi.l. Leyte, Phil. Is. to Ulithi Islands C840 mi.l .................... Ulithi Islands to At Sea Off Northern Iapan Coast C1800 mi.l. . 'At Sea Off Iapan Coast to Sagami Wan, Iapan C460 mi.l. . . Sagami Wan, Iapan to Yokosuka, Iapan C27 mi.l ....... Yokosuka, Iapan to Wakayama, Iapan C180 mi.l ........ Wakayama, Iapan to Singapore C2894 mi.l ..... Singapore to Colombo, Ceylon C1572 mi.l ....... Colombo, Ceylon to Cape Town, So. Africa C4500 mi.l .... Cape Town, So. Africa to New York C6788 mi.l. . n-census .en- 5-1844 5-24-44 5-26-44 5-3 1-44 6- 1-44 6- 4-44 6- 5-44 6- 7-44 6-12-44 6-1 4-44 6-1 7-44 6-1 8-44 6-20-44 6-2 1-44 6-31-44 7- 7-44 7-1 9-44 7-25-44 7-27-44 7-31-44 8-12-44 8-1 8-44 8-22-44 9- 8-44 10-13-44 1 0-1 7-44 10-22-44 10-28-44 12-24-44 1- 3-45 1-27-45 2-16-45 3- 2-45 3-13-45 5- 1-45 5-1 0-45 6-1 3-45 6-28-45 6-30-45 9- 8-45 9- 9-45 10- 7-45 10-1 5-45 10-26-45 1 1- 3-45 1 1-19-45 5-19-44 5-26-44 5-27-44 6- 1-44 6- 2-44 6- 5-44 6-. 7-44 6-10-44 6-15-44 6-16-44 6-18-44 6-19-44 6-21-44 6-22-44 7- 2-44 7- 9-44 7-20-44 7-27-44 7-31-44 8- 1-44 8-13-44 8-22-44 9- 6-44 9-15-44 1 0-16-44 10-22-44 10-27-44 1 1- 5-44 12-28-44 1- 9-45 2- 9-45 2-1 9-45 3- 5-45 3-1 6-45 5- 3-45 5-13-45 6-1 5-45 6-30-45 7- 2-45 9- 9-45 9-10-45 10- 8-45 10-22-45 10-30-45 1 1-1 4-45 12- 6-45 .. At sea for 16 days Cmileage given does NOT include cruising at 1: At sea for 49 days Cmileage given does NOT include cruising at 'f'At ' At sea for 34 days Cmileage given does NOT include cruising at sea for 69 days Cmileage given does NOT include cruising at 71 sea during this periodl. sea during this periodl. sea during this periodl. sea during this periodl. mm. -..J!!?f ,,,9,g.-',-gve-1zyfwg.gQ,fav.,,-,f5..V.,,C,-,,.

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s..s,.,.,...m.e1-.... .... an... ..: NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1945. arch for a 1946 Candidate to Defeat Mar. Qi Big lVlo's Kid Sister Sheds Her Barnacles Lt. Comdr. Mark Varland, skipper ot the Stevenson. Bar, Candy Store, Theater Held Up Despite a spectacular hcldup in the Grand Central Terminal area yesterday, a barrooin holdup in Manhattan and two stlckups in Brooklyn, crime took a sharp drop in the clty during the last 24 hours. Only 27 persons, five of them juveniles, were in today's police lineup. Police found no trace of the armed man who held up eight persons in the third-floor offices of the General Pwblic Loan Co. at 120 W. 42nd St. yesterday and es- caped with 5800. But they did collar GeorZe Rip- ple, 33, of Cleveland, Ohio., who they charged with picking the pocket of Carolyn Butleman, of North Bergen, N. J., as she sat ln the Capitol Theater, Broadway and 51st St. Police of the pick- pocket squad were in the theater and watched Ripple change seats several times before he opened the handbag of Miss Butleman. A detective grabbed his wrist as he started up the aisle. In his hand was 315. While half a dozen patrons drank at the Darby Bar and Grill, Inc., at 118 E. 125th St., a man followed the manager, Philip Geisenhelmer, into the kitchen and robbed him of 8350. Then he left through the barroom after warning the manager against an outcry. Brooklyn police are searching for two armed men, one of whom held up and robbed a girl ticket seller at the Fox Movie Theater at 12 Flatbush Ave. of 365 and another who stuck up a candy store at 1705 80th St. and took 537. 5 Crew members scrape the bottom ot the USS Stevenson, the Galloping Ghost ot the New Guinea Coast, at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn. w,,,1d.-f,1,,,.m Pho... by p,1.,,,.,,,,, By EDWARD J. MOWERY, World-Telegram Staff Writer. Not a drum rolled the other day at the U. S. Naval Shipyard, Bklyn., when the Galloping Ghost of the New Guinea Coast slid her weary way into drydock after 32 months at sea. She had barnacles clinging to her bow fathom markings, but not a scratch on her bridge. She never got a. Nazi or Jap plane or sub- marine. But she's proud of her six battle stars. This was the homecoming of the USS Stevenson, the destroyer work horse of the 'Ith and 3rd Fleets. The dull, unglamorous kid sister of Big Mo, the Tennessee and the Califomia. Log Belles Skipper. Lt. Cmdr. Mark Varland of Rockford, Ill., 27-year-old skipper of the Ghost, protested that there wa.sn't much of interest about her. He grinned, however, when he said it. The Stevenson's log goes like this: Five round trip convoy chores in the Atlantic before join- ing the Pacific 7th Fleet's 16th Destroyer Squadron: in the naval van of Gen. MacArthur's historic dash up the New Guinea coast: bombarded shorelines in the Ad- miralty Islands in support of troopsg supported landings at Hol- landla, Wake, Blak, Noemfoor, Sansapor, Wewak, Guadalcanal, Pelellu, Anguar, Iwo Jlma, Okl- nawa . . . and Tokyo. The Ghost's crewmen-all under 31-had their own Fourth of July jubilee last year when they slugged Noemfoor with concentrated fire. And for 65 days prior to the Jap capitulation in Tokyo Bay, the Ghost darted up and down. the Jap coast in support of Adm. Hal- sey's lethal fleet strikes at the heart of Nippon. When the cease fire order rattled through the ship Aug. 15. the crew discovered they had been in battle over a stretch of 190,000 miles, in all oceans, and had never been hit! The galling part was having no scalps on the bridge! End of an Odyssey. Today, the Stevenson, fresh from escorting the Tennessee and California over 15,000 miles of ocean C51 days? on one of the war's most amazing itineraries, waits patiently for someone to throw in the towel. She came back from Tokyo Bay via Manila, Singapore, Malacca Straits, Cey- lon, Cape of Good Hope, Capetown, etc. Her crew, weary from hoisting shells and flecking radar specks from the heavens, enjoyed movies topside. They swapped, battered and maneuvered loot from pros- trate Jap ships. They had one crap game where a gentleman from Indiana became S1200 richer. Messrs. Thomas, Heuer and Puts of the crew pulled out a Jap destroyer's big wheel which they hacked off the dead duck in Tokyo Bay. The wheel was nailed to the wardroom wall. They had gunnery and pistol prac- tice. And then someone calmly announced, as the Stevenson was off St. Helena, that a lady was aboard. She really wasn't a lady, Lt. Robert Mather, Chicago. gunnery officer, grinned today. She was Geisha, a lady dog. And do you know what Geisha did? She had two kids. Just like that! Resting on a. Farm. Geisha is now convalescent on a Long Island farm. They scraped the rust off the Ghost's belly today and every- one felt bad. A drydock is some- tlmes like limbo. Especially when your ship has no glamour! But then, there's always a rain- bow when fellows like Storekeeper 2!C Gale Evers, 21, of Anaheim. Calif., are around. Whitey Evers for years to come can point to his left ear and tell his grandchildren: This is my Asiatic Duty Award. It's a nice, Singapore earring. I had one of the guys in the work- shop put it in. He just used a sewing needle and a pair of pliers. Honest, lt didn't hurt a bltl BarNames Navy Man Lt. Paul B. DeWitt, USNR, now on terminal leave, was appointed executive secretary of the Bar of the Clty of New York, it was an- nounced yesterday. He was for- merly assistant secretary of the American Judicature Society. fr liar 'Giffedf Givi. ngf. . B. ALTMAN at co. I i ie S S Storekeeper 2fC Gale Evers sports an earring. C Elliott Roosevelt ln Radio Venture BV Ihr Associated Prem. HOT SPRINGS, Ark.. Dec. 13.-- Elliott Roosevelt has alminority interest in a new. 250 watt radio station which has been authorized for Camden, Ark., and will serve as a vice president in the enter- prise. Leon Wilson, treasurer of Camden Radio, Inc., announced last night. Mr. Wilson said the firm in- corporated with 510,000 worth of stock, and that Mr. Roosevelt had paid his subscription of stock in full. The late Presidents son had not been promised a bonus for advisory service, Mr. Wilson added. The corporation, Mr. Wilson said, was recently authorized to construct the station and was as- signed a frequency of 1450 silo- cycles, with time unlimited. Accuse Handyman Ot Stealing Sl80 A 25-year-old Brooklyn handy- man was under a grand larceny charge today in the theft of 5180 from a money drawer at the Lef- court Shoe Co., 400 Madison Ave. Arrest of the suspect, Harrison Dean, of 375 Macon St., came dur- ing an investigation by police into the systematic stealing of the f1rm's S27 shoes and their resale at S6 a pair. Dean was charged only with the money theft. Sta ol the

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