Tarawa (CVA 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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ficer' .y in avai ears vent torg ded ship 3N. the was ard Jral nme :tor ind AN by ,nd inc for ry. CSI to ief nd Commander HAWLEY RUSSELL, USN was born in Salem Massachusetts, .Iuly 27, 1913. Graduating from Colby College, Waterville, Maine, he entered flight training and received his wings at Pensacola in 1936. The next three years were spent aboard the Uss WEST VIRGINIA, returning to Pensacola as an instructor in 1939. Assignment to the USS WASP as Hangar Deck Officer, Flight Officer of VF-71, and later Flight Officer with VF-16 aboard the second USS LEXINGTON followed. He served as Commanding Officer of VF-33 at Guadalcanal and Bouganville. The Commander was aboard the USS WASP when she was sunk in September 1942 after the engagement at Savo Island. On Christmas Day 1943 he was shot down while leading a fighter sweep at Rabaul. Wounded in both legs., he was returned to the United States for recovery. He was subsequently attached to ComFairQuonset Staff and later Commanding Officer of FawTuLant, with 1946 finding him in Officer's Line School. Later he was Commander Air Group 17 until ordered to ComFair,Iax Staff in 1949. In July 1950 Commander Russell was transferred to the Office of CNO, Fighter Tactics and Doctrines, for two years until he relieved Commander Upham as Executive Officer of the USS TARAWA on August 9, 1952. E :Aw ww rt- ft' U , VI., A: -u., A - if 'QE ez' -fi' .ln ,V 4 V, 1 ,: t1lIA'v nicest! if facie a iw. r 'A f g visas.,-4 ' 1 - ff? .11-Q' ,- -Z.?ia?Q' V I, . 'S fmgil'-11' ' EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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flux COMMANDING OFFICER Captain JACK P. MONROE Commanding Officer U.S.S. TARAWA was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1904, Captain Monroe graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1927. He spent the succeeding two years aboard the battleship U.S.S. TENNESSEE, and then went into flight training. By 19310 he was a naval aviator, during the next seven years his assignments included flying from the cruiser NORTHAMPTON, the battleship NEVADA, and the carriers RANGER and LEXINGTON. Shore duty at Pensacola followed, then command of the seaplane tender U.S.S. GANNET. Captain Monroe was on the staff of Commander Carrier Division Two aboard the U.S.S. LEXINGTON when she was sunk in the Coral Sea battle of May 1942. As the war progressed he became Air Officer of the escort carrier U.S.S. BOGUE, Director of Armament Tests for the Bureau of Aeronautics, and commanding officer of the carrier U.S.S. KADASHAN BAY. i A His experience was still further broadened by subsequent assignments. In 1946 he took over command of the Naval Air Station at Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands. A year later he became Operations Officer for Commander Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. His next duty, from 1949 to 1951 was with. the Naval Ordnance test Station in Inyokern, California, from there he went to the Operational Development Force in Norfolk as Chief of Staff. A On August 9, 1952 Captain Monroe assumed command of the U.S.S. TARAWA. I

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