COMMANDING OFFICERS

Commander Joseph C. Wylie, Jr., USN
31 May 1944 to 8 July 1945

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Commander David S. Edwards, Jr., USN
8 July 1945

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STAFF

Commander Task Flotilla THREE
Commodore John M. Higgins, USN
28 May 1945 to 17 June 1945

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Commander Destroyer Squadron SIXTY-TWO
Captain John M. Higgins, USN
9 July 1944 to 22 May 1945

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Captain William D. Brown, USN
22 May 1945 to 6 June 1945

                                                   SHIP DATA

Built by:  Federal Ship Building and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey

Launched:  26 March 1944

Commissioned:  31 May 1944, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York

Sponsored by:  Mrs. William B. Ault

Length:  376 feet and 6 inches

Breadth:  40 feet and 9.75 inches


                                            
NAMED IN HONOR OF

Commander William Bowen Ault, U. S. Navy, who while serving on the U.S.S. Lexington, as Commander Air Group, led the attacks in the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 7 and May 8, 1942, in which one Japanese carrier was sunk and a second severely damaged.  Awarded Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism.  Missing in Action on May 8, 1942.




                                           
AULT'S SCOREBOARD


Total:
4 MEATBALLS (Japanese airplanes)

Total:
2 SHORE BOMBARDMENTS



                                           
A FEW STATISTICS


In the course of AULT's history from commissioning to the day of the signing of surrender terms in Tokyo Bay, it is of interest to note the amounts of "Beans, Bullets, and Fuel Oil" she accounted for.

Over these extremely active sixteen months, the crew consumed the rather startling amount of seven hundred and ninety nine thousand, seven hundred and eighty five pounds (799,785 lbs.) of provisions - two thousand, two hundred eighty pounds per man - roughly five pounds per man per day.

In the same period, the ships guns fired a total of eight hundred seventy seven thousand one hundred thirty three (877,133) pounds of ammunition of all calibers - slightly over two thousand, six hundred pounds of bullets per man.

Travelling over a great portion of the globe, AULT steamed 120, 803 miles up to the day of the signing of terms of surrender.  To steam this far she consumed 6,470,262 gallons of fuel oil - roughly 17,945 gallons of oil per man.  To use this oil, AULT visited Bermuda, Trinidad, Panama, San Diego, Hawaii, Eniwetok Atoll, Ulithi Atoll, Leyte, Samar, Saipan, and Tokyo.  The great bulk of her traveling was not done in making ports of call however, and for the most part the long and weary miles were spent steaming through waters off the once mighty Japanese Empire in company with Task Force 58 and 38 where the carrier aircraft had the honor of leaving calling cards for all ships of the Force.  AULT had not been a "liberty" ship - twice she has stayed at sea in excess of 80 days while rolling up steaming miles.



                       
ITINERARY OF U.S.S. AULT (DD-698)


10 July 1944               Departed New York
12 July 1944               Arrived Bermuda, B.W.I. - Shakedown cruise
13 July 1944               Departed Bermuda, B.W.I.
14 August 1944           Arrived New York
30 August 1944           Departed New York
31 August 1944           Arrived Casco Bay, Maine
3 September 1944        Departed Casco Bay, Maine
4 September 1944        Arrived Norfolk Navy Yard
6 September 1944        Departed Norfolk Navy Yard
10 September 1944      Arrived Trinidad, B.W.I.
10 September 1944      Departed Trinidad, B.W.I.
12 September 1944      Arrived Balboa, Canal Zone
13 September 1944      Departed Balboa, Canal Zone
21 September 1944      Arrived San Diego, Calif.
23 September 1944      Departed San Diego, Calif.
29 September 1944      Arrived Pearl Harbor, T.H. -- Advanced Training cruise
17 December 1944       Departed Pearl Harbor, T.H.
25 December 1944       Arrived Eniwetok Atoll, M.I.
25 December 1944       Departed Eniwetok Atoll, M.I.
28 December 1944       Arrived Ulithi Atoll, C.I. -- joined Fast Carrier Task Force
30 December 1944       Departed Ulithi Atoll, C.I.
                                  Cruised in South China Sea, raids on Formosa, Luzon Support
26 January 1945           Arrived Ulithi Atoll, C.I.
10 February 1945         Departed Ulithi Atoll, C.I.
                                  Strikes on Formosa, support Luzon, strikes on Tokyo area
4 March 1945              Arrived Ulithi Atoll, C.I.
14 March 1945            Departed Ulithi Atoll, C.I.
                                  Iwo Jima, Kyushu, Okinawa, Tokyo
1 June 1945                Arrived San Pedro Bay, P.I.
1 July 1945                 Departed San Pedro Bay, P.I.
                                 Kyushy, Honshu, Tokyo, Hokkaido, off east coast of Empire
2 September 1945       Arrived Tokyo Bay, Japan
                                 Present at Surrender Ceremonies
2 September 1945       Departed Tokyo Bay, Japan



It was December 1944.  The famed Task Force 58, powerful carrier task force of Admiral Spruance's 5th Fleet, was the symbol of American aggressive strength in the Pacific; and when on December 25th, the AULT entered Ulithi Lagoon, her officers and men, seeing for the first time that greatest assemblage of naval power, knew that at last the long period of grooming for action was behind them.  The AULT was about to see action.


                       
LAUNCHING AND COMMISSIONING


That long period began on March 26, 1944 when the widow of Commander William Bowen Ault, United States Navy, christened the ship in honor of her heroic husband who lost his life in the Battle of the Coral Sea while serving as Air Group Commander of the old LEXINGTON, having led the attack during which one Jap carrier was sunk and one severly damaged.

When the AULT slid down the ways to her first taste of salt water, those officers and men who were to man her were, most of them, training intensively at NOB Norfolk; but finally on May 31, 1944, call had been brought to New York, under the command of Commander Joseph C. Wylie, Jr., United States Navy, veteran of many earlier Pacific engagements.  Aboard also was Capt. John M. Higgins, United States Navy, Commander Destroyer Squadron SIXTY-TWO, an old destroyer man, who had fought the Nazis in the North Atlantic and had later moved against the Japs in many battles in the South Pacific.  AULT was to carry his flag until July of the next year.



                                                
SHAKEDOWN


After the first mad rush of wartime outfitting and trial runs in Long Island Sound, AULT headed for Bermuda and her first training as a fighting ship, with days and nights of shooting, drills, schools, battle problems, and inspections.  Pronounced fit, she returned to New York Navy Yard for post-shakedown availability, for the completion of outfitting, a final check on engineering and ordnance equipment, and probably the last stateside liberty her crew would enjoy for a long time.



                  
WESTWARD TO THE FLEET AND ACTION


AULT escorted the WILKES-BARRE to Trinidad, then steaming singly, made a quick passage through the Canal, and was unexpectedly ordered to San Diego for a quick check before heading westward.  In Pearl Harbor and in the adjacent waters, there was more intensive drilling, shooting, bombarding, schooling and general availability.  Then on December 18th, with WALDRON, HANK, and WEEKS, she headed for the forward area to join the Fleet.  On Christmas Day the four major ships stopped at Eniwetok long enough to fuel, and continued on to Ulithi.

The strategic situation brought the Philippines into focus.  Leyte had been secured; the next landing was to be made on the Lingayen Gulf, on Luzon.  All the January operations were to support that landing.  To that offset, AULT sortied on December 30, 1944, with Task Force 38 under Vice Admiral McCain, as part of Task Group 38.2 under Rear Admiral Bogan.  A few days later, on January 3rd, the first strike against Formosa was made, and the AULT took part in the carrier operations that were to become as familiar as to be almost routine.



                                                     
CHINA SEA


One strike was made against Luzon, and then came the exiting passage through Bashi Channel.  AULT, with WALDRON, SPERRY, and WEEKS, swept the channel ahead of the task force.  There was no enemy contact, but we were the first ships to enter the South China Sea since the early days of the war.  It was bold action; anything might have happened; we were ready.

There followed exciting days--exciting because of our proximity to enemy territory on all sides, and because of the foul weather which hampered air operations and made refueling difficult and sometimes impossibe.  Heavy seas wrought some damage to ships and made life uncomfortable, but in the period from the ninth to the twentieth of January the force swept the French Indo-China coast and made strikes against the Camranh Bay area, Hong Kong, Hainan, Swatow, and Formosa Straights area.  On one day alone, January 12th, our planes sank 41 ships, totaling over 127,000 tons.  Then on the 20th, AULT led the force out through Balintang Channel.  The next day Formosa was the target, but the task force also became the target for Jap air attacks.  Two carriers and one destroyer were damaged.  Undaunted, the force struck Okinawa on the 22nd, and then commenced its retirement to Ulithi for a breather.



                                             
TOKYO RAIDS


Our next sortie was on February tenth.  AULT was part of Task Group 58.3 under Rear Admiral Sherman in ESSEX, the force now under Vice Admiral Mitscher, with Admiral Spruance as Commander 5th Fleet.  Iwo Jima was about to be taken.  To minimize Jap air threats from the north and to create a diversionary threat of our own, the force proceeded directly to the Tokyo area.  There was the greatest excitement when that objective was announced.  To have sailed boldly into the South China Sea had seemed brazen enough; now we were on our way to the very heart of the Empire.  The Tokyo area had not hithertofore been struck from the sea.  If we could get away with this, we were nearer the day of victory than we had dared hope!

Amazingly enough, we met no opposition.  On the way up to Tokyo, one Jap bomber was intercepted and shot down.  Following two successive days of strikes (on the 16th and 17th) the force retired, encountering a group of several picket boats on the evening of the 18th.  They were destroyed, but the WALDRON sustained damage to her bow, and was detached for repairs.

The force supported the operations on Iwo Jima beginning on the 19th, by lending air cover of both defensive and offensive nature, and on the 25th it struck the Tokyo area once more.  Heavy weather prevented a further strike against Nagoya, and on the 28th the force commenced a high speed run towards Okinawa, launching strikes against that sronghold on March 1st, then retiring towards Ulithi.

During the two weeks at Ulithi, we were grimly reminded how desperately the Japs were to smash the fast carrier force that had harassed their homeland from one end to the other and, together with American subs, had reduced their shipping to a precarious trickle; for on March 11th, a Jap suicider crashed without warning into the after end of the RANDOLPH's flight deck, while a second struck a small-boat pool nearby.  All hands looked at the damaged carrier as the AULT passed close abroad while sortieing three days later with Rear Admiral Sherman as group Commander of the CABOT.  If the Japs could inflict damage at that range what would they do now when we moved in on them?

The answer was not long in coming.  On March 18th, four days after sortie, the force stood of Kyushu, launching strikes.  Early that morning, the Japs had discovered our postition, and their snoopers commenced attacking the force.  Our men were kept at general quarters almost continuously.  On the following day, still more Japs came to attack; this time they were successful--the FRANKLIN and the WASP were both hit.  The force moved north a little, was now off Honshu.  Still the Japs came.  The night of the 20th was a busy one.  Our night fighters were unable to stop all the enemy attackers, and they came uncomfortably close.  The AULT's guns knocked down two of them.  March 21st, and another day under attck, but our Combat Air Patrol did a superb job, knocking down 21 bombers and 12 fighters.



                                      
OKINAWA--BUSY DAYS


Then it was down south again to strike at Okinawa on the 23rd and 24th, and again on the 27th.  That night came opportunity to try our hand at shore bombardment; with four cruisers and Destroyer Squadron SIXTY-TWO, AULT bombarded the Jap-held island of Minami Daito Shima, rejoining the group the next day.

These carrier operations in support of the landings at Okinawa were to keep us at sea for the record time of 80 days, loner than over before, or over after.  There were weary days of routine flight operations, long hours at general quarters when attacks were expected, and many tense days and nights when the attacks materialized, as on the 6th of April, which was also the 6th day of landing operations at Okinawa--when Jap planes attacked both destroyer pickets and the task group.  On that day the HAYNSWORTH was hit badly by a suicider, and 47 Jap planes were splashed by the force.  The 7th found us off Kyushu, which we were beginning to consider an unlucky spot.  The Japs spotted us that day and one of their suiciders crashed into the flight deck of the HANCOCK.

Luck and good gunnery served us well on the 11th when during one of many raids that were made on us that day, a suicider came down at us suddenly out of a cloud, missed the ESSEX with a bomb, and headed directly for the AULT.  He was coming fast, and close.  All possible guns were quickly brought to bear and began shooting.  Badly hit, the Jap still kept coming, only to splash at the last possible moment close aboard on our starboard quarter.  We began to breathe again.  The KIDD, on destroyer picket duty, was badly hit by a suicider that day.

So it went, with attacks almost every day, and we began to look forward to the fueling days for respite from what seemed to be perpetual general quarters.  On the 29th, two more destroyers, the HAGGARD and HAZELWOOD, were damaged by other suiciders.

On the 10th of May we bombarded Minami Daito Shima once again; after all that we had gone through, this was tame sport, but we hated to think what a group of suiciders might do to our little bombardment force if we were discovered and attacked.  We came through unscratched, although on our return to the force early the following morning, Jap bombers came so close to us through the darkness that the roar of their engines was plainly heard through the firing of our guns.  We rejoined the force, only to take part in resisting another attack.  It was May 11th, sadly remembered as the day the BUNKER HILL was hit.  Here is the story in the terse words of the AULT's War Diary:

"At 1010 sighted enemy plane (Zeke) [
Editor's note: "Zeke" was the U.S. Navy code name for the Japanese Mitsubishi A6m "Zero" fighter plane] which came out of low cloud on starboard quarter.  Informed task group commander by voice radio.  Plane made a suicide dive on U.S.S. BUNKER HILL and crashed into the after part of the flight deck.  Formation commenced evasive maneuvers.  Sighted another enemy plane which came in from the same general direction as the first.  Took this plane under fire with 40mm guns and observed several hits in the wing.  Plane began to smoke and was hit by gunfire from other ships.  It dove burning into the flight deck of BUNKER HILL opposite the island structure.  At this time BUNKER HILL was burning fuiously and several explosions were observed, presumed to be gasoline and ammunition.  Many men were observed in the water.  1023 observed a dogfight to the southeast and was two enemy planes (Zekes) shot down by fighters.  One plane commenced a run towards this group with a friendly fighter on its tail.  Reported this to the task group commander by voice radio and prepared to take the plane under fire.  The friendly fighter continued after the enemy plane but seemed unable to shoot it down.  At a range of approcimately 2500 yards opened fire with the 40mm guns at which time the friendly fighter retired.  The enemy plane was observed to be hit several times in the fuselage near the wing roots and engine and commenced smoking.  All guns that could bear opened fire.  When astern of this vessel the plane turned to the right and commenced a suicide dive toward this ship.  Started right with full rudder in a effort to avoid.  The plane was hit almost nose-on by a burst from mount three and emerged from smoke burning furiously.  It fell into the water close aboard the port quarter.  At 1035 commenced rescue operations of BUNKER HILL personnel in the water.  Rescued five officers and twenty four men from BUNKER HILL."



SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM THE BUNKER HILL-11 MAY 1945


Avery, D.C., Lt.(jg)                              Gunther, I.K., S2c
Benson, J.P., Ens.                                Hamilton, J.G., S1c
Coleman, K.D., Lt.(jg)                          Harrison, J.E., AMM3s
Manger, M.M., Ens.                             Howell, Robert, S1c
Moore, W.B., Lt.(jg)                             Jacobs, J.A., S1c
Anderson, W.H., AOM1c                      Kalbrumer, C.J., S1c
Bird, C.W., S1c                                    Magnusson, C.K., ACOM
Butler, B.S., Amm3c                             Ponce, J., Y3c
Dunn, J.E., S1c                                    Rowe, W.E., S2c
___ls, J.B., Cox.                                   Smith, E.J., AOM2c
Fernicola, J., AMM2c                            Sumrall, W.E., S1c
Folcek, T.P., AOM3c                            Williams, N.E., S1c
Garcia, S., S1c                                      Zionts, V.L., S1c
Gillette, J.G., S1c                                   Zolger, George, S1c


AULT escorted the BUNKER HILL to the replenishment group, rejoining the force in time for the next strike against Kyushu on the 13th.  The next day was a hectic one also.  ENTERPRISE was damaged by a suicider, and many Japs got in close that day, AULT's guns accounting for three of them.  It was the last bad day for awhile.

On 22 May Captain W.D. Brown, U.S. Navy, relieved Commodore Higgins as ComDesRon 62 on this vessel; the latter became ComTaskFlot3, remaining aboard AULT until we again reached port.

We laughed at the Japs on the 25th, when ten groups of their suiciders were seen airborne and on the prowl for us but couldn't find us; we were more relieved than amused when the last of them headed away from us, having failed even to sight any of our ships.  The story of that day might have been sadly different.



                                      
MORE EMPIRE RAIDS


On the 28th the task organization was changed again, and on the first of June we entered San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf, as part of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and Vice Admiral McCain was again Commander Task Force 38.  Captain Brown transferred his flag to the ENGLISH, Commodore Higgins left the AULT also, having been aboard since commissioning, and Rear Admiral Bogan relieved Rear Admiral Sherman as Task Group Commander.

We had been at sea for 80 days, and the month we were allowed for availability and training was none too much to get in shape for the next operation, which began when we set out again on the first of July heading directly for Tokyo.  On this operation we roamed boldly up and down the Japanese coastline.  For the first time, ships of the force bombarded Hokkaido.  On the AULT, Commander David S. Edwards, Jr., U.S. Navy, relieved Commander Joseph C. Wylie, Jr., U.S. Navy as commanding officer on July 8.  Then on the night of 18-19 July, our destroyer squadron, with cruiser division 18, steamed almost to Tokyo itself, conducting an anti-shipping sweep of Sagami Wan, and bombarding Nojima Saki.  This boldest venture of all seemed to good to be when we completed the mission and rejoined the force without having been taken under fire, either from shore batteries or by enemy planes.  We knew that victory could not be far off now.

On August 8th, while cruising off Honshu, AULT had a distinguished passenger, Rear Admiral Byrd, whom we transferred from ALABAMA to ESSEX.  But the very next day, just when things seemed brighter, came another grim reminder that we were very much at war.  The detroyer BORIE of our squadron, while on picket duty, was attacked and severly damaged by a Jap suicider that came screaming and burning down into her forward superstructure.



                                                  
SURRENDER


Those were strange days, days of routine flight operations, of alert apprehension, and rumors of peace and Japanese surrender.  Strangest and most exciting of all was the great day, the 15th of August.  President Truman announced that the Japanese had accepted the terms of the Potsdam ultimatum!  All hands listened to the voice of Admiral Halsey on the radio as he gave thanks for our victory and a "Well Done" to the force.  But at the close of his address, we went to general quarters.  47 Jap planes were shot down.

That was virtually the end of the war for us.  On the 21st we joined Task Group 38.4.  On the next day AULT added to her distinguished list of passengers Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Commander of the British Pacific Fleet, whom we transferred from his flagship DUKE OF YORK to our carrier YORKTOWN.

A glad sign of the times was the transfer of the first contingent of men to leave this ship under the Navy Demobilization system, on 30 August.

September 2nd, and the great day of the surrender ceremony.  AULT was fortunate to the last, and with Admiral H.F. Kingman, Commander Battleship Division 9, and Commodore Higgins aboard, she steamed into Tokyo Bay for that grand occasion, anchoring just a shouting distance from the MISSOURI to which her passengers went to witness the ceremony that put an official end to the long war.  And with AULT as close to MISSOURI as she had been in New York Navy Yark on the other side of the world in the month they were both commissioned, a cycle had been completed, a good job well done, and there our story may rest.



                                  
SUPPLEMENT NUMBER ONE

                           
To the History of the U.S.S. Ault (DD698)

                                              Covering the period from

                                     3 September 1945 to 31 December 1945


After the signing of the peace treaty aboard the MISSOURI, the AULT steamed out of Tokyo Bay and rejoined the task group off the entrance to Sagami Wan, for routine air operations in support of the occupation forces.

On September 20, we became part of the Fifth Fleet, and the group accordingly became 58.2.  The following day, with BENNINGTON, LEXINGTON, ENGLISH, WALDRON, WADLEIGH, we became part of Task Unit 58.2.13 which departed enroute to Saipan, where we arrived on September 24, stopping there only long enough to permit the carriers to change air groups.  We then continued towards Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands; arriving there on the 27th, we went alongside the LAERTES (AR 20) for tender availability, and a few days later to the ARD 30 for rudder repairs.  7 October found us underway, again as part of Task Group 58.2, and bound for Tokyo Bay, which we entered on October 13; and on the 15th went alongside PEIDMONT (AD 17) for additional availability.

Once more, October 24 to 28, we operated with Task Group 58.2 in the exercise area off Honshu.  Then on 30th AULTentered a new phase of her post-war activity when she got underway in comapny with BOSTON (CA 69) and sailed for Sasebo, Kyushu, where she was to be based until her return to the states.  The sojourn in Sasebo Ko, however, has been punctuated by frequent trips, for escort, courier, and exercise purposes.  First was the trip to Toyko Bay with S.S. SEA STURGEON, commencing on November 12; and no sooner did we arrive back in Sasebo on the 18th, than we departed again, this time escorting MOBILE (CA 63) and KENTON (APA 122) as far as the Van Doimon Straits, south of Kyushu, then returning to Sasebo for only two days rest before getting underway with SPRINGFIELD (CL66), which we expected to escort across to China; halfway there, however, JOHN A. BOLE (DD 755) relieved us, and we turned back to Sasebo.

Arriving in Nagasaki for our next assigned task, we remained for two days.  The proposed trip having been cancelled, we were able to go ashore to see the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb, returning on the 29th to Sasebo.

From December 5 to 10, AULT was underway on a courier trip, with mail, freight and passengers, stopping at Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Wakayama, and returning once more via the same track.

On December 12, CDD 124 broke his pennant in AULT, remaining for two days, until on the 14th he hauled it down, broke it out in ENGLISH, and with ENGLISH, LIND, ROWAN, and OKLAHOMA CITY, we exercised at general quarters for AA firing, torpedo firing, and general drills.

On December 17, when we had been in Kagoshima for two days, AULT was suddenly ordered to get underway with OKLAHOMA CITY, and proceed to Sasebo.  Once in open water, AULT experinced the heaviest weather she had known since the operations in the south China Sea, nearly a year before, and was obliged to reduce speed, the cruiser going on ahead.  All hands were glad to see the calm waters of Sasebo Ko on the 19th when we arrived there.

That was the last of AULT's duties in Japan.  There followed days of waiting impatiently for the word that we were to return.  Many had left the ship for ultimate discharge in the United States, many now eligible or about to be eligible spent their last Christmas  away from home in Sasebo Ko as the Homeward-Bound pennant was completed and made ready to replace the Christmas tree atop the mast.  On the 31st we received our sailing orders - and on the 31st we departed from Sasebo Ko, Kyushu for the United States via Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor.




                                          
U.S.S. Ault (DD 698)

AVIATION PERSONNEL FISHED FROM DAVY JONES' LOCKER



Name                                               Parent Ship                                   Date

Ensign L.F. Ray                                 U.S.S. HANCOCK                          3 January 1945
Lt. J.B. Adams                                   U.S.S. HORNET                            3 January 1945
ARM1c T.A. Fangier, USNR               U.S.S. HORNET                            3 January 1945
ARM1c W.E. Conley, USNR               U.S.S. HORNET                            3 January 1945
2nd Lt. Briggs, USMC                        U.S.S. BUNKER HILL                    1 March 1945
1st Lt. Chop, USMCR                         U.S.S. ESSEX                               1 March 1945
Ensign D.L. Swisher, USN                  U.S.S. BATAAN                             3 April 1945
Lt. C.R. Soffee, USNR                        U.S.S. ESSEX                                20 June 1945
Ensign H.W. McClure, USNR               U.S.S. ESSEX                                2 July 1945
Ensign W.P. Brewitt, USNR                 U.S.S. TICONDEROGA                  2 July 1945
ARM3c R.L. Julien, USNR                   U.S.S. TICONDEROGA                  2 July 1945
Lt. (jg) R.T. Underberg, USNR             U.S.S. TICONDEROGA                  9 August 1945
ARM2c R.J. Leyser, USNR                  U.S.S. TICONDEROGA                  9 August 1945




                       
CREW MEMBERS ASSISTING IN RESCUES:


Macdonald, CBM                                O'Connor, BM2c                              Simon, S2c
Kowalik, CMM                                   Miller, PhM1c                                  Ingoglia, S2c
Baughman, MM1c*                             Dunn, S1c*                                     Seward, S2c*

*Not aboard at present




                            
COMMISSIONING DETAIL -- OFFICERS


Commander Joseph C. Wylie, Jr., USN
Lieut.-Comdr. Vincent P. Healy, USN
Lieut. Alvin Latrop, USNR
Lieut. Thomas S. Heitzeberg, USNR*
Lieut. Edwin S. Zimmermann, USNR
Lieut. William F Pritchard, USNR*
Lieut. Audley McCain, USN
Lieut. John R. Tate, USNR*
Lieut. James W. Hough, USNR
Lt. (jg) Addison B. LeBoutillier, USNR*
Lt. (jg) Charles H. Tisdale, USN*
Lt. (jg) Norman T. Slatery, USNR*
Lt. (jg) Robert C. Stover, USNR*
Lt. (jg) William S. Ault, USNR*
Lt. (jg) Samuel Schugar, USNR*
Lt. (jg) Jay M. Johnson, USN*
Lt. (jg) Aloysius P. Pirak, USN*
Lt. (jg) William A. Miller, USNR*
Lt. (jg) John W. Schliecher, USNR
Lt. (jg) Arthur R. Edsall, USNR*
Ensign W.A.L. Kaufmann, USNR

*Plank owners at the end of the war.



                                 
Served on board during war cruises


Commander David S. Edwards, Jr., USN
Lieutenant Commander Robert H. Grayson, USNR
Lieutenant Luverne L. Iaymes, USNR
Lt. (jg) Wayne R. Wallis, USNR
Lt. (jg) Thomas W. Newsom, USNR
Lt. (jg) Joseph M. McGinley, USNR
Lt. (jg) Kenneth C. Buchorn, USNR       
                  
McDonough, T.F.
McGlynn, H.E.
McKinley, W.C.
McKissic, G.B.
McMahan, A.B.
McNeil, R.E.
Merz, G.P.
Meyer, C.J.
M_ucci, A.J.
M_ear, R.R.
Miller, R.K.
Mooney, J.J.
Moran, J.J.
Moran, J.F.
Moore, O.H.
Morgan, A.B.
Muehleisen, M.J.
Neaves, A.T.
Nelson, J.C.
Nelson, M.D.
Nelson, W.D.
Nicollet, J.A.
Notar, D.
Nowry, J.B.
O'Brien, F.F.
O'Connor, J.C.
Olsen, J.
O'Neil, P.W.
O'Rourke, J.P.
Pailotta, _.D.
Palladino, A.
Parrish, _H.
Patchey, R.H.
Pe_ersen, K.M.
Perone, C.
Peters, J.A.
Petrick, D.J.
Petti, R.
Phillips, G.M.
Phillips, H.A.
P_ante, R.L.
Pohle, R.W.
Pound, R.R.
Powell, K.C.
Powers, J.K.
Powers, J.A.
Prestwood, N.M.
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Turner, W.A.
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Balance, T.E.
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