U.S.S. Haynsworth DD-700 Newsletter Issue 70 April 2013 (P-1)
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U.S.S. Haynsworth DD-700 Newsletter Issue 70 April 2013 (p-1) Official Newsletter for the USS Haynsworth Reunion Committee THE CROWNE PLAZA-DULLES 2200 Centerville Road—Herndon, VA 20170 Special Military Room Rate(s): $ 97.01(includes 9% tax) without breakfast $118.81(includes 9% tax) with breakfast for 2 Make reservations directly to hotel: 1-(800) 227-6963 Must be made on or before September 13, 2013. Check-in is normally 3 PM. Check-out is 12:00 Noon. We will do our best to accommodate arrivals before 3 PM on a space available basis. We have an exciting special appearance of a WWII Famous personality that will be at our annual Banquet. I would venture to say that everyone attending this year’s Reunion will know who this person is. It took a lot of “finagling” to have this well known personality to entertain us! (I’m pretty sure all of you know what “finagling” is) Below are some of the sights we will see on our tours. On the left are pictures of our Grand Tour of Washington D.C. Memorials.(9/27/13) On the right is a picture of Annapolis MD and also the US Naval Academy which we will also tour as our Early bird tour. (9/26/2013) Street scene of the Capital of Maryland, Annapolis, and the United States Naval Academy. This will be our “Early- Bird Tour. We will also board a ship for a 90 minute luncheon cruise on the Severn River. Following the tours and luncheon we will have free time to explore historic downtown Annapolis before returning to our hotel in Herndon. On Saturday Morning we will travel to Dulles International Airport to visit the Udvar- Hazy Top Left: Changing of the Guard, Arlington Graduation Day at the Smithsonian National Air Museum for a half-day Bottom L. Vietnam Memorial and the Udvar- United States Naval Academy excursion to include a lunch before returning to hotel Hazy National Air Museum home of the B-29 Super Fortress, “ENOLA GAY” and get a little rest to prepare for our annual Banquet. ( We need a minimum of 30 to have this tour. Pl’s, come!) USS Haynsworth Newsletter April, 2013 USS HAYNSWORTH DD-700 NEWSLETTER April, 2013 (P-16) James F. Horn 2 Surrey Court Chambersburg, PA 17201-8756 Newsletter Editor/Treasurer/ and ship’s store clerk. ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED If your name or address is not correct or any of the information within is not correct or if you have any news or stories you wish to share with your ship- mates, please contact the Editor. If you wish to discontinue receiving this newsletter, please return this copy or notify Editor SHIP’S STORE The following items are available in our Ship’s Store. All orders include shipping. For all purchase requests, please send check to the above “return address”. USS Haynsworth, DD-700 mesh Ball Caps(specify with/without “eggs)----$ 11.00* USS Haynsworth Patch (embroidered 5” Dia.).-----------------------------------$ 5.00 USS Haynsworth Golf Shirt,(Navy Blue or White ) with: Gold embroidered ship, name, and hull number).S/M/L/XL XXL----------$ 35.00* DD-700 T-Shirts (Limited sizes)-------------------------------------------------------$20.00* USS Haynsworth DD-700 +Tin Can Sailor License Plate Frame--------------$ 13.00* Official Gov. Issue Foul Weather Jacket, embroidered with: “Name”, “USS Haynsworth” “DD700”, and ships patch.(only sizes left)---(M/L/XL) Contact Jim Horn for details.($30 goes to our Org.)--(supply source is drying up!)------$300.00 (Note: some prices have increased due to increased mailing costs. See * Make all checks payable to: “USS HAYNSWORTH REUNION COMMITTEE” Send check to: James F. Horn 2 Surrey Court Chambersburg, PA 17201-8756 (P-16) USS Haynsworth Newsletter MAIL BAG (p-3) (Rec’d, 12/23/2012. Harvey N. Bailey RD3, ’60-’62 [email protected] ) Hi Bill,----I was on-board during the Black Sea trip and was wondering if you remember when a shipmate, who suffered from chronic sea sickness, jumped overboard on the starboard side when the Russian Destroyer was in front and to our starboard causing us to turn toward them. I was in radar on the ships headphones when the fantail watch hollered man overboard. He was so excited I had to ask him to repeat what he said. Usually in radar we keep track of other ships movements on the DRT, (dead reckoning tracer), but since we could see the Russian ship there was no need to. We had to hurry and reset the DRT to a scale to track the man overboard plus put some paper on top of the DRT, by this time we were turning to starboard coming close to the Russian ship. We lowered the motor whale boat and picked up the jumper. In radar we also monitored Russian ship and land based radars and recorded them. I also remember spending the night transferring the milk onto our ship so we could make the morning convoy back down the Suez Canal and on to Mombasa, Kenya, crossing the equator, and the initiation to become a trusty shellback. I think a few were disappointed that we had to spend Christmas in Kenya instead of Naples, Italy. There were also some carriers that lost planes that we were plane guarding in the Med. There was another time when we were anchored off of France and some of us took a bus trip to the French Alps, don’t know if you were there or not. There was on shipmate from radar, Hap Hampson, (’59-’62 RD3), who decided to remove the pull chains from the men’s restrooms where we stopped, he ended up with seven or eight chains. Our tour guide asked him to return one chain to one of the hotels because they were related to her, which he did. I talked to him a few years ago and asked him if he still had the pull chains and he said he did but his wife made him take them down since she didn’t like them hanging in the house. (Harv) (Rec’d 12/23/2012, Charles J. Delahanty RM2 ‘61-’63 [email protected] West Seneca, NY) Jim,----Merry Christmas. In response to William W. Washington’s, ( FTG3 ‘61-’62) and Robert “Cham” Light’s comments in the December 2012 Newsletter, I served aboard the “H” from 1961 to 1963. My tour pretty much mirrored the sane 24 months that (Commander) Robert C. Light was in command.----I have provided some additional information about the Med-Cruise 1961-1962. I have attached the Haynsworth Family Gram (see page 4) covering the first 3 months of that cruise,(August to November 1961). I can’t find the other Family Gram covering the last 3 months which included our extended tour in the Red Sea, our emergency milk run to Africa, our Shellback initiation while crossing the equator, and the huge and dangerous storm we encountered while crossing the Atlantic in March ’62, while returning home.---- Hope this helps to fill in some of the blanks for those who served during this Cruise.----P.S. After the first Med-Cruise, there was a second six month cruise to the Med, and of course our involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis in Oct-Nov ’62. It seemed like we were never home in Norfolk during these 24 months.----//s// Charlie Delahanty RM2/c (Rec’d 1/3/2013 Mrs. Donald R. Messecar, (Margaret) ’44-’45 TM3 D: May, 2006) Dear Mr. Horn,----I am enclosing a check to cover the expense of sending me the newsletter. My husband served on the Haynsworth, (1944-1945 TM3/c). We enjoyed the many reunions we attended over the years. Also, I am enclosing an obituary that was in the Buffalo News regarding a former member of the Haynsworth Crew, (1954-1958) William L. Clayton, (FTSn). We did not know him but some of your members might remember him. (Ed. Note; Thank you Margaret for letting us know of the passing of our shipmate Bill Clayton.). If you want to send my newsletter via the internet my e- mail address is [email protected] . ----Best Regards to our old Friends. Sincerely, //s// Margaret Messecar (Rec’d 1/5/2013) Marion W. Dinninger, ’44-’45 MM2/c [email protected] ) Enclosed is my check for dues. Thanks for sending the newsletter. I was at the reunion in ’06 and one I will always remember. //s// Marion Dinninger, 44-45 MM2/c ****************************************************************************************************************** (Rec’d 1/5/2013, Bob, (Robert J.) Csencitz ’69-’70 SKSn) Dear Jim,----Enclosed is a check for my 2013 dues. Read our recent, (Dec. 2012) newsletter and thoroughly enjoyed it. I especially enjoy the “MAIL BAG”. I enjoyed reading the article on the reunion, (page 8), but part of the list of attendee’s apparently was omitted. It said “continued on page 16). That page was the address label. Could you include this in the next newsletter? I’m curious to see if shipmates from my era attended. I and my brother, Joe (Csencitz, ’69-’70 CS3/c) were on board when the Haynsworth was decommissioned in January, 1970. Keep up the great work! (Ed. Note; Sorry Bob about the error on page 8. The actual continuation of the Reunion information was on page 13. As for the list of attendee’s, that was the complete list as printed on page 8. Only the “Reunion narrative” continued on page 13. There were no shipmates from the period of 1969 to 1970 in attendance. I researched all the reunions going back to 2003 and there were no shipmates from ’69-’70 that attended in that period.