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marine Service. After intensive training at New London, he was graduated from Submarine School and in July 1926 the then Lieutenant Wattles reported to the U.S.S. R-3, in Pearl Harbor for underseas duty. From June 1928 to June 1929 he served as Commanding Officer of the R-3. Our Skipper then took up duties as the Detachment Gunnery and the Torpedo Overhaul Officer at the Sub Base in Pearl. Sent' to Newport, he was ordered to take the year long junior officers course at the Naval War College. Following June 1935, he served as personal Aide to Rear Admiral John Downes, Commandant of the Ninth Naval District. On July 1, 1936 he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. The Captain commanded the destroyer Dahlgren operating in Pacific waters for over a year. Through 1938 and 1939 he was the navigator of the U.S.S. Texas. Ninteeen years after his graduation, the Skipper returned to Annapolis as a bat- talion officer in the Executive Department, and in the first few months of 1911-2 was the Executive Officer of Bancroft Hall. Again at sea, he served as Commander Destroyer Squadron Sixteen, having been appointed a Captain on September 11, 1942. From October 1943 to December 19441 he was the Pre-Commissioning Training Officer and subsequently acting Chief of Staff and Assistant Chief of Staff to Commander Fleet Operational Training Command, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. Captain Wattles participated in the invasion of Morocco in November 1942 and in the eventful invasion of Sicily in July 1943. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his excellent work in the Sicilian campaign. The Captain married Annette McPherson Ashford of Washington, D. C., on No- vember 3, 1923. They have two daughters, Ann Wattles Strangman, the wife of Lieutenant Clive A. Strangman. U.S.N., and Mary Joan Wfattles. 7
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