US Navy Officer Candidate School - Sea Chest Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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DONALD A. SAWYER, BMC .!45.4f. Komloany Of icer Chief Sawyer is serving his second tour of duty at Newport, R. I. at present, the great difference being that the hrst was as a recruit in 1937. He served in the Pacihc Theatre during the war as a crew member of the ill-fated gun- boat Erie which went down in a battle with the enemy in l942. His rescue was followed by thirty days leave stateside, a period which con- stituted the only interruption in an uninter- rupted string of foreign duty from 1937 to l945. Following various other duties, he was assigned to OCS Newport in 1951. vmpany icer Lieutenant Johnson was commissioned in the NROTC program at the University of Oklahoma in l9fl5. He has been on active duty since that time. Prior to his present duty, he served in the cruiser Miami and the AGC Mt. McKinley. In the Mt. Mz'Kinl1fy he was a member of the staff of Joint Task Force 1, which conducted the atomic bomb test at Bikini. Subsequently, LT Johnson served as Com- munications OfHcer'in the DD Agerlmlm, Gun- nery and Operations Officer in the minesweeper lfllysrm, and was Commanding Oflicer of the minesweeper .S'a11dm'ling. Following these assign- ments, he became a member of the Officer Can- didate School staff. LT ALLEN R. JOHNSON , ws is , git We .far