CHAPTER 3

ARCHIVE INDEX

Autobiographical statement of commands. Commands include: Attack Squadron 55 (VA55), Carrier Air Group 19, Naval Air Station Saufley Field. Listing of service and civilian positions. Retired on disability, 1965. Fully retired since 1973, has Multiple Sclerosis.

Remembrances of USNA: "I lost all my weekends, except the first weekend, because I was 127 minutes overleave on that first weekend; therefore, I spent weekends on ketch trips." Entered USNA on a congressional appointment from Rep. Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas. First impulse was to enter West Point becasue father was an Army Officer.

Reported aboard the MINNEAPOLIS (CA 36) on 2 July 1940 and was assigned to be the Asst Navigator and Asst C Division Officer. From Oct - Dec 1940, was Asst First Lt. From Jan 1941 - Sep 1942, was assigned to the Engineering Dept and soon was a qualified engineering watch officer.

1941-Sep 1942: Engineering Dept. of MINNEAPOLIS. April 1942: promoted to LT (jg), besides being the M and A division officer was also the engineering watch officer. September: detached from MINNEAPOLIS. October: promoted to LT. and began flight training.

Diary, written in ink, covers period from 5 December 1941 through 7 July 1942. It ends with Note "Continued in Volume II. (Note: This is one of the most valuable items in the Class of 1940 Archive. It includes Notes on the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway. Some of Maltby's remarks are not found elsewhere. Professor Hagan quoted the Maltby Diary during the June 1990 Fiftieth Reunion ceremony for the Class of 1940 at Memorial Hall in Bancroft Hall at the Naval Academy.)

9" x 4.5" binder, green, cloth-covered, titled by hand in ink "War Log, Volume II, A.L. Maltby, Jr." The second volume of Maltby's 1942 "War Diary" is as complete as Volume I and covers Maltby's Pacific cruise from 7 July to 1 October 1942. Observations on the preparations for the Guadalcanal landing, the Battle of Savo Island, subsequent Japanese air attacks on the defending American task forces, and the successful Japanese submarine attack on the carrier SARATOGA are included. (Note: Of particular interest is Maltby's account of a briefing he attended on board the SARATOGA concerning the losses at Savo Island from officers from the cruiser ASTORIA, who laid the blame at the feet of the Marines. They claimed in effect that when the Marines landed on Guadalcanal unopposed, discipline broke down, troops get drunk and looted stores, and boats carrying supplies ashore returned to their parent ships still loaded. It is unclear how the ASTORIA's officers would come to know these things.)

Maltby spend most of 1943 in flight training, first at NAS New Orleans. He recalls an incident on New Years Day and the Sugar Bowl. He then went to Pensacola, earned his wings in May, and was ordered to NAS Jacksonville for further operational training. After qualifying at NAS Glenview on the small carrier SABLE, he spent the rest of the year at NAS Vero Beach as an Assistant Instructor.

Cites Oliver Rasmussen's experiences as Japanese POW.

Maltby refers to Richard Mann's scrapbook which he saw in 1982 that contained Maltby's ltr to Mann's parents in which he reported that Mann was missing in action. Also in the scrapbook, according to Maltby, was a second letter from Maltby to Mann's parents, notifying them that Mann was a POW.

Airman Rasmussen's story is from the carrier SHANGRI-LA newsletter HORIZON.

1940-Nov. 1941 USS MARYLAND, BatDiv 4. PH, San Pedro. Bremerton. Repairs and new installations. PH until attack. Manned turret. CWO. Ship's Secretary. Observations" Bosses were kind, friendly, and helpful." Good crew-officer relationships. Work satisfaction, pride in self, busy. Ships not equipped to repel air attacks; this made Marks decide to volunteer for aviation training. Nov. 1941-6 Dec. 1941Radar exercise experiment with PENNSYLVANIA. Flop. "Combining radar data and bridge station-keeping was not accurate enough for gun firing." 7 Dec. 1941 USS MARYLAND docked in PH. Hit twice. AA active, made a dive bomber drop load too soon to sink ship. Order to all non-AA to stay below deck. (His deck spot riddled with bullets later.) Communications by radio. Saw OKLAHOMA sailors being rescued.

1942: Jan-March: MARYLAND in Bremerton Navy Yard, repairing port bow hole from Pearl Harbor Attack. Marks continued as ship's secretary and in Radio Central as CWO. March-Sep: MARYLAND operated up and down west coast. During Battle of Midway (1-3 June), MARYLAND wa stationed between Pearl and the Aleutians to intercept the Japs. The weather was made horrible by fog. Lesson learned: Marks continued as secretary, CWO, and Spot II. 15 Sep-15 Oct: the MARYLAND returned to Pearl. Marks was detached from the ship for flight training.

1944. XO of VT-35. Summary of yr. Description of air attack prototype. USS LANGLEY. Wotje Island attack. Iwo Jima. Eniwetok, Engebi, Parry. Palau. Marianas Island campaign. Esp. Guam. Philippine Island strike. One attack on a cargo ship. 135 missions between Jan. and Sept. 11 medals (inc. Pres. citation). CO VT-32, Nov.-Dec. relieved.

COMAIRLANT, Norfolk. Grosse Ile. 1945 Jan.-March, CO VT-95. Air Ops Offc., staff of RAdm. Bogan, CDR 4th Carrier Div.Pacific. USS FRANKLIN with staff. Kamikaze hit. Great loss of life, but not sunk. As AIROPS, Marks prepared flight plans for each day for squadrons. Okinawa. Leyte Gulf, June: an Army Air Force pilot doing loops crashed into deck.

Task Force conducted strikes against Japan. Took on POWs after war. RANDY. YORKTOWN, late Sept. Tsingtao. Japan for Christmas. Marks, DA 30 Sep 1987.

Personal: "In June 1950, as a lieutenant-commander, I was assigned to VC-35 as XO. Charles Stapler (USNA '39) was CO. I made commander in 1 January 1951, and assumed command of the squadron in March 1951. I retained command until relieved by classmate Louis Burke in July 1952. I completed the squadron training syllabus, lead VAN-9 aboard the ANTIETAM, flew with the team for one line operating period, then returned to the home squadron."

A discussion on VC-35 Training, VC-35 Special Weapons Mission, Korean Combat Operations. Lessons Learned: " In my view, we were not very successful in interdicting the flow of logistics towards the battle line. We were a hindrance to the flow-- slow them down some--but caused the North Korean no big headache.

1942: January: detached from SALT LAKE CITY (CA 25) with orders to place SAN JUAN (CLAA 54) in commission. February: SAN JUAN was commissioned on 28 Feb 1942. June: carried Task Force 18, the First Marine Division and the First Raider Battalion and headed for the South Pacific on 30 June. First stop was Tonga Islands.

August: Landed Marines on Guadacanal and Tulagi on the 7th. October: SAN JUAN along with the ENTERPRISE participated in the Battle of Sarata Cruz, the largest ship versus aircraft action in WW II. Lt. McFarland was a MK 37 director officer controlling five 5"38 twin mounts.

USS CANBERRA, a heavy cruiser. Asst. Gunnery Off. and Air Defense Off. LT. Fast Carrier Task Forces in West Pacific. AA protection for aircraft carriers, island-hopping: New Guinea, Palau, Philippines, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa. First ship to shell Iwo Jima. Marianas Turkey Shoot. Task Force so large, ship in the middle (CANBERRA) had to relay voice messages. 4 planes attacked a convoy once; CANBERRA shot all 4 down. Torpedoed once. Attacked often. At one point carried 35 dead men, decomposing. Detached to Staff COMCRUDESPAC, PH. Gunnery Off. for cruisers and battleships, Dec. 1944.1945 COMCRUDESPAC, Administrative, operational, training command. Sept., detached to USS VALLEY FORGE as Gunnery Officer.

Destroyer story. Excerpt: "...When I reported aborad the DEHAVEN (DD 727), off Pohang, Korea, soon after the Korean War started my DD experience was practically nil." a. Officers were most inexperienced. b. Had many problems in operations, training, and maintenance. c. For 18 months I was XO of the destroyer tender FRONTIER (D25) and gained a wealth of experience in upkeep, maintenance, and repair problems of DDs. d. Took command of the repair ship MARKAB (AR 23), 1962-63. e. Senior Member of the Submarine Board Inspection and Survey, San Francisco, 1963-64. f. Numerous material problems are due to take place, "so be prepared both mentally and physically to face up to them on a straight forward basis."

In the summer of 1952, he was CO of the destroyer DEHAVEN in Korean waters when he was ordered in the Weapons Divison of the Military Liason Committee of the AEC.

McFarland explains the organization of the division, pointing out that one of his superiors, an Army colonel, "was the officer who kept custody of the numbers of atomic weapons we had in our stockpile. He personally briefed the President every two weeks as to the numbers."

McFarland points out that the Navy did not even bother to fill the third billet it was assigned in this elite, and highly important, outfit "because the Navy was of the opinion that Joint Staffs were not here to stay." McFarland does not stay much more about the office, other than he was once briefed by Physicist Edward Teller on the hydrogen bomb project.

Nine months later, McFarland was picked to move over to the ISA office in OSD, "a mini State Department." He remained there for 2.5 years. McFarland points out that most of the staffers were Army men, with long experience in staff work. "Here again, the Navy thought this OSD caper would be short-lived. How wrong we were." Nonetheless, McFarland does not believe that his OSD tour was in any way a deteriment to his career.

Pearl Harbor Experiences: McFarland was a junior gunnery officer in the cruiser SALT LAKE CITY when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On 7 December, she was sailing in company with the ENTERPRISE,the cruiser PORTLAND, and a destroyer squadron en route to Hawaii after delivering Marine fighter aircraft to Wake Island. McFarland states that the SALT LAKE CITY's CO had been the Pacific Fleet Intelligence Officer and had played a role in breaking the Japanese code.

McFarland tells how Halsey ordered the formation to make a high-speed run into Pearl Harbor which had to be aborted at the last moment when he discovered that the anti-submarine net was in place.

McFarland was in the light anti-aircraft cruiser SAN JUAN. He points out that her sister ships, the AUGUSTA and JUNEAU, had already been lost. The SAN JUAN operated as part of the SARATOGA Task Force (TF 14) in the vincinity of Point Dog in the Coral Sea. (Note: McFarland makes some general observations about the state of the U. S. Navy in 1943, but does not tell much about his own experiences.)

In July 1943, he was detached from the SAN JUAN at Noumea and flew home where he reported to the cruiser CANBERRA as Assistant Gunnery Officer and Air Defense Officer. After a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean and post-shakedown outfitting in Boston, she transited the Canal to join the 3rd Fleet in the war zone. The CANBERRA operated with TF 58 during the remainder of 1943.

McFarland Notes that "our Navy was recovering from the 'black’ days of late 1942 and early 1943. Morale was improved.

Service resume with many explanatory Notes. Retired USN 1971.

Classmate Appleton, who was McGillicuddy’s roommate in PENNSYLVANIA, Notes that McGil (who was normally the plotting room officer) literally saved the battleship from destruction. The occasion was during an ammunition loading evolution in Majuro when a 14" powder tank exploded during handling in a main battery magazine. McGil entered the magazine as all hands in the turret crew were evacuating and extinguished the fire, which was burning throughout the lower handling rooms, with a single hose by himself. (For McGil, a Navy and Marine Corps medal for heroism should have earned him a retirement promotion to RADM if the law had not later been changed.)

Article by McKinney's widow about the couple the day of the attack. They were newlyweds. McKinney died in 1980.

Mrs Johnson pointed out that she had published a short article in SHIPMATE in Dec 1988 that recalls her experiences as a Navy wife in Honolulu during and after Pearl Harbor.

Civilian resume. Career with Martin Marietta Aerospace, 1960-86. Personal data also.

List and explanation of service and civilian positions from 1934 to 1983 (retirement from civilian employment).

Attached synopsis of pre- and WWII experiences. USS NEW MEXICO. Escorted British and Canadian ships in N. Atlantic, July-Dec. 1941. Pacific Fleet, Jan. 1942. Mid-1943, Aleutians, shore bombardment of Attu and Kiska. Nov., Gilbert Islands campaign. With LISCOME BAY when it was sunk. Shore bombardment of Marshalls, Jan.-Feb. 1944. Turret Officer.

USS CHUB (SS 329), March 1945. Rescued Army fliers from water near Hainan. Strafed during rescue. USS BUGARA (SS 331). 3rd patrol, sank 57 small Japanese vessels. Sub Combat Insigne for these two operations.

1954-present. President of John J. McMullen Associates of New York. Official Navy biography covering service years. Commended for a rescue of a downed flier; many other decorations. PhD Mechanical Engineering from Swiss Fed. Institute of Technology, 1950. Retired 1953 as CDR.

Impressions of Peacetime Navy: USS SAN FRANCISCO. AA "basic...inadequate." R&D starved. Officers and crew dedicated. Senior officers older than what is now found on ships. Family atmosphere. Initiative and innovation possible. Spit and polish traditions strong, however. Lack of info. on European developments. Seniors positive about ability to win.

7 Dec.-31 Dec. 1941 USS SAN FRANCISCO, PH. AA and catapult had been removed for repairs. Mid-watch night before attack. Very large number of men brought in for rowdiness, etc. Asleep when attack came. Looked out porthole and saw a "red meatball" insignia go by.

To NEW ORLEANS to help AA. No one killed on SAN FRANCISCO. Ship very quickly prepared for sea and stood out 18 Dec. To Wake, but turned back on 25 Dec. Lessons Learned "War is hell!" Preparedness is a necessity. Pipeline of resources must be always ready. Better communications and intelligence than that they had are necessary.

1942: Early '42: the SAN FRANCISCO escorted the NEVADA back to San Francisco form Pearl for repairs. Upon installation of a bed spring type radar at Mare Island, the SAN FRANCISCO escorted several cargo and troop ships to the western Pacific. First stop was New Zealand. Later we rejoined our Cruiser Division enroute to Guadalcanal. Later the SAN FRANCISCO participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea and continued its operation with the Task Force in its strikes against New Guinea. October: One of the night intercepts to Guadalcanal resulted in the Battle of Cape Esperance. Nov-Dec: flight training in New Orleans. Lesson learned: "we need better anti-submarine equipment and that when outgunned a lot of luck and skill is needed to stay healthy."

(Meyer was assigned to NAS New Orleans for basic flight training in November 1942, and he remained there until February 1943. Between March and June he was at Pensacola for gunnery and instrument training and there qualified for multi-engine aircraft and earned his wings. After more training at NAS Lake City, Florida, he moved to NAS Beaufort as a flight instructor teaching long-range air navigation, instrument flying, and indoctrination in PV-type aircraft.)

1944-1945 NAS Beaufort, SC. Flight Instructor. Aug., PG School for Aerological Engineering. Aug. 1945, Fleet Air Wing One, USS NORTON SOUND, Okinawa. Search and rescue ops. FAW-1 land-based detachment. Asst. Ops Off. (Lessons learned (observations): Inadequate communications capabilities in W. Pacific. Value of air armed services. Destructive power of typhoons. Impressed with selective bombing in Tokyo; avoiding palace while bombing industry.

(File includes list and explanation of all positions from 1940 to 1986, when retired civilian employment. Retired USN 1970.)

Service resume. Retired as Admiral, four stars, 1978.

1. Mentioned in Eugene Hemley, "1942 Part I," 3 Oct 86.

2. Served in the cruiser NASHVILLE in early 1942.

"Line by Line Listing of Military and Civilian Careers": 1940-44: battleship IDAHO. 1944-46: heavy cruiser PITTSBURGH. 1946-49: George Washington Law School, JAG Corps. 1949: destroyer BORIE, deployments to 6th Fleet and 7th Fleet during Korean War; ship entered Flying Fish Channel during landing at Inchon. 1951-52: CO of the destroyer HANK. 1952-55: entered JAG corps. 1955-58: Planning staff of CinCWestLant, subordinate command of NATO SacLant. 1958-1959: XO of destroyer leader NORFOLK. 1959--62: Chief of Staff to Asst Navy Comptroller for Budget and Reports. 1962-63: CO of APA PAUL REVERE, deployed in WestPac as part of AmphibRon 5. 1963-1964: EA to AsstSecNav Installations and Logistics. 1964: Asst to Dir of Naval Program and Planning for Amphib, Logistic, and Sealift Forces in OpNav. 1965: admitted to practice before Supreme Court. 1966: retired from Navy. 1966-1985: various executive positions with national trade associations and presidency of trade association's captive insurance carrier.

Biographical sketch of naval and post-naval career.

Note by Mary Louise Moon, 6 Oct 1988, on ltr Hanley to Love, 16 Sept 19881. Enclosures (a) dtd 1 July 1980 describe Moon's work with Boeing following his retirement from the Navy; (b) dtd 1 September 1986 describe his last illness and death; and (c) Mrs. Moon's activities following his passing.

(Deceased. Folg by Ray Hundevadt)

Murray reported on board the VINCENNES (CA 44), after graduation from USNA, and was initially assigned to the main propulsion machinery plant along with classmate Ray Hundevadt. Murray was then assigned to the 4th Division as its Junior Officer. In late 1941 or early 1942, Murray became Junior Division Officer of F Division, in charge of fire control of the ship's main battery and his battle station was that of Plotting Room Officer.

During the Battle of Savo Island off Guadalcanal in the early hours of 9 August 1942, a Japanese torpedo struck VINCENNES and flooded the Plotting Room and/or the forward fire room.