USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014

Jene Cain, Editor – Jim Durough, Assistant Editor

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Three Japanese Mistakes at Pearl Harbor By Jack Blann Comments from Admiral Chester Nimitz

As reported in our last edition, the board and our Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Admiral Chester Nimitz was membership present at our 2013 reunion voted to return to attending a concert in Washington D.C. and he was paged and told there was a phone call for him. Answering the call, it Sam’s Town in Las Vegas for our 2014 reunion meeting. In the process of scheduling the meeting and making was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the line. He arrangements with the hotel, we have agreed on the dates of advised Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the October 12th thru 16th, 2014. This is a change from what we Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to to take command of the Pacific Fleet. He arrived at Pearl had reported and it should make it easier for more shipmates to attend. Please mark your calendars and plan on Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. Among those he met there attending. was an attitude of despair, dejection and defeat it was as if the Japanese had already won the war.

The April edition of the newsletter will be mainly devoted to On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz took a boat tour of the the 2014 reunion and the various events that we will have destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. scheduled. We will try to keep the prices for the various Sunken and navy vessels cluttered the waters events about the same as in 2013 and the hotel continues to everywhere you looked. When the tour boat returned to dock, offer a $26.00 room rate and a $9.99 resort fee for a daily the young coxswain asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think rate of $35.99 plus tax. If you have been putting off coming after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's next to one of our reunions, now is the time to plan to join in the comment took everyone within the sound of his voice by comradery and rewards that come with being with former surprise. Admiral Nimitz commented, "The Japanese made shipmates. three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it In this newsletter is our request for an annual contribution to was?" Shocked and surprised, the young coxswain asked, the association to help us produce and mail our newsletter to "What do you mean by saying the Japanese made the three all of our located shipmates. If you are able, please consider biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz this donation. explained.

Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday One of the functions of your association is to collect and morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were catalog memorabilia concerning the crew and our ship. We ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea have several Change of Command brochures, cruise books and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead and other printed material and photos produced at various of 3,800. times during SHIELDS service. If you have any of these types of items that you are willing to share, even if they are Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those of a personal nature, please consider contributing them to battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking our collection. Contact Jack Blann for donation assistance those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks (Contact info on Page 2 of this newsletter). opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to We have a great group (though small) of dedicated people be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and who serve your association and keep it functioning. They can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, are here to keep you in touch with your shipmates. Help and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we support their efforts by keeping your data up to date, helping could have towed them to America. And I already have crews locate lost shipmates, attending reunions, contributing ashore anxious to man those ships. articles to the newsletter and becoming a supporting Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific member of your association. theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America.

Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism. President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014 Page 2

Board Members Contact Info. Eldest Living Shipmates

Jack Blann, LTJG, 61-63 Below is a list prepared by Jim Durough of the 10 eldest living President, Memorabilia Keeper officers and enlisted shipmates. If Jim missed you, please contact him with your birth date. 1008 N. Beeline Hwy Payson, AZ 85541-7312 Ph: 928-308-4850 10 ELDEST OFFICERS E-mail: [email protected] New addition in bold face Hoblitzell, Paul C., LTJG, 44-45 11/24/1916 Curtis S. Crenshaw, FT2, 62-65 Teeters, David R., LT, 49-50, 04-11-1918 Vice President Metze, George M., LCDR, 52-54, 09/15/1918 2814 Poyntelle RD Fredell, Erling W., LT, 49, 12/01/1918 Richmond, VA 23235-2154 Goodell, Trenor F., ENS, 44-45, 12/29/1918 Phone: 804-513-4723 Wessel, Robert L., CPTN, 61-63, 06/20/1919 E-mail: [email protected] Dupre, Marcy M., CDR, 45-46, 09/17/1921 Bob Carl, RD2, 64-67 Staring, Graydon S., LTJG, 49, 04/09/1923 Director, Secretary Billodeau, John D., WO1, 58-59, 11/25/1923 231 Viewmont Dr. Pinkowski, Dennis S., LT, 51-53, 06/03/1924 Henderson, NV 89015-7733 Ph: 702-438-9826 E-mail: [email protected] 10 ELDEST ENLISTED New addition in bold face Roger Brotherton, SO3, 60-62 Field, Raymond W., FC3, 44-45, 11/25/1920 Director, Treasurer, Resident Agent Hendrickson, Jack M., MM2, 45-46, 10/11/1921 PO Box 8023 Purdy, William V., WT1, 45-46, 11/27/1921 Reno, NV 89507-8023 Proetto, Gerald S., BM3, 57, 09/10/1922 Ph: 775-674-6252 Dukett, James E., MM3, 44-46, 01/29/1923 E-mail: [email protected] Choromanski, Ray J., GM3, 44-45, 05/27/1923

Roy Cook, ETN2, 56-59 Bainton, Donald O., TM2, 44-46, 07/18/1923 Director Leclair, Richard D., MM1, 50-51, 09/13/1923 7239 N. 15th St. Caronia, Sam, TM1, 1950, 02/27/1924 Dalton Gardens, ID, 83815-9507 Craddock, William V., MM2, 64-65, 03/20/1924

Ph: 208-640-4447 E-mail: [email protected] Recently Passed Shipmates Friends to the Board Contact Info. Editor's Note: Please contact Jim Durough to notify Jene Cain, ETR2, 61-63 us if a shipmate has passed away. His contact Newsletter Editor information is on page two of this newsletter. If e- 13171 Galleria Pl mailing please include DD-596 in the subject line. Apple Valley, MN 55124-6113 Ph: 952-432-8746 The deceased listed below were identified through E-mail: [email protected] letters and phone calls from the family, returned letters

Jim Durough, ETN2, 62-65 marked deceased and research. Asst. Newsletter Editor, Shields Locator & Contact List Keeper Carney, Donald L., RM2, 51-54 5470 S Shades Crest Rd Cruysen, Anthony D., SN, 55 Bessemer, AL 35022-4183 Hartley, Shirley, CS2, 56-57 Ph: 205-425-9197 Murray, John P., S2, 45 E-mail: [email protected] Redfern, Leland H., QMC, 55-56 Videtich, Joseph M., MMC, 71-72 Bill Ragan, IC3, 56-59 Ship’s Store 1642 Rambling Rd Simi Valley, CA 93065-5737 Phone: 805-527-2196 New Found Shipmates E-mail: [email protected]

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Rickshaw Story There on the floor was a man and wife and two By Bill Armstrong S1, 45-46 children sitting around a large bowl of rice and food. I yelled “is Charlie here?” They were frightened and looked at me like “don’t kill us.” Our USS Shields DD596 spent the month of December 1945 at I let the curtain go and ran toward the back. I saw . We were in the middle of the Whangpoo stairs going up and I went up to the third floor. I River tied alongside another destroyer. rushed down the hall and into a community

bathroom at the back of the building. I looked Our whaleboat would take us about a quarter mile around and saw the window was wide open. I to the dock. The dock was on a very big wide looked out and saw a narrow ledge alongside the street. It was named “Bund” and always packed building. I was really scared so I climbed out and with sailors coming and going. My friend James on to the ledge. Ross, S1, 45-46 and I went ashore. We got a rickshaw and went north a block then turned left By now it was dark and looking down I could see a on Bubbling Well Road which was a large heavily telephone pole and wires. There was an alley out travelled road with lots of buildings on both sides. back and I started remembering what the officers We were headed for the USO building. About a told us. Do not do anything wrong - always have mile and a half on the right hand side of the road. someone with you - stay on the main streets. By We could eat there and talk with sailors from all now I was really scared. I stayed on that ledge for over the states. I met two guys I knew from Miami, quite awhile trying to rest and catch my breath. Fla. We had a great time. We spent most of the Then I heard the Chinese yelling and running day there. around in the bathroom. If they had looked out that

window I would have probably been knocked off It wasn’t too long before dark and we decided to the ledge. I stayed there about twenty minutes. I get back to the ship. We didn’t have enough was afraid to look in the bathroom. money to take a rickshaw back to the dock. So we came up with a plan. We could take a rickshaw Finally I did climb back in and slowly made my back to the dock and jump out and run into the way back down to the front door. I went down the crowd of sailors. Only our runner pulled over on steps to the sidewalk. I looked to the left and saw the far side of Bund Street nowhere near the a large crowd of Chinese. Someone must have sailors. said “there he is” because the whole crowd was

now chasing me. I ran down King Edward and cut We had to think quickly. Our ship had adopted a across the street to go behind a large building and bar named “Chefoo Bar.” So we said “Chefoo Bar come out the other side. There was no out; it was and he took off running South on Bund Street and a large handball court. turned right on “King Edward Seventh.” I was making a new plan. When he turned left off of King By now the Chinese were pulling on me and Edward Seventh we would jump out and run to the yelling and I was getting more scared. I saw a jeep sidewalk and try to blend in with the sailors. As he with the English Shore Patrol. I yelled as loud as I turned left James jumped out, our runner dropped could “help, help, help.” They drove in and talked the handles and I fell out to the left. I quickly got to the Chinese. One of the English guys came up and ran to the sidewalk. over to me and said, “they say you jumped out and

didn’t pay.” I told him I was walking down the There were no sailors to blend in with, so I started street and they started chasing me so I ran. I don’t running. There was a sailor with a girl and he think he believed my story but he did pay my fare yelled to me “run sailor run.” The street made a and put me in a pedicab, it was like a couch with curve to the right and I was out running the wheels on each end and a guy on a bicycle right Chinese guy and he couldn’t see me. I saw a behind you. I sat sideways to keep my eyes on bunch of stairs going up about ten feet to the front him. He peddled me down to the docks and there door of an apartment house. I raced up those was James Ross and James said “that was the stairs and rushed into the apartment house. There funniest thing I’ve ever seen.” was a long hall from the front to the back. The apartments had no doors just big curtains hanging James Ross is still alive and living in Lancaster, down. I pulled open a curtain my heart was KY. We call each other often and yes we still talk pounding. about our rickshaw ride.

USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014 Page 4 And after the rigid routine of boot camp, we learned the Jim Ryan’s Seabag skill of random compression, known by mothers world- Author Unknown wide as 'cramming'. It is amazing what you can jam into a space no bigger than a bread-box if you pull a There was a time when everything you owned had to fit watch cap over a boot and push it with your foot. in your seabag. Of course, it looks kinda weird when you pull it out, but Remember those nasty rascals? Fully packed, one of they NEVER hold fashion shows at sea and wrinkles the suckers weighed more than the poor devil hauling added character to a 'salty' appearance. it. The damn things weighed a ton and some idiot with There was a four-hundred mile gap between the an off-center sense of humor sewed a carry handle on images on recruiting posters and the ACTUAL it to help you haul it. Hell, you could bolt a handle on a appearance of sailors at sea. It was NOT without Greyhound bus but it wouldn't make the damn thing justifiable reason that we were called the tin-can Navy. portable. The Army, Marines, and Air Force got We operated on the premise that if 'Cleanliness was footlockers and WE got a big ole' canvas bag. next to Godliness' we must be next to the other end of that spectrum... After you warped your spine jackassing the goofy thing through a bus or train station, sat on it waiting for We looked like our clothing had been pressed with a connecting transportation and made folks mad waffle iron and packed by a bulldozer. But what in hell because it was too damn big to fit in any overhead rack did they expect from a bunch of swabs that lived in a on any bus, train, and airplane ever made, the contents crew's hole of a 2100 Fletcher Class tin-can? After looked like hell. All your gear appeared to have come awhile you got used to it... You got used to everything from bums who slept on park benches. you owned picking up and retaining that distinctive

Traveling with a seabag was something left over from aroma... You got used to old ladies on busses taking a the "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum" sailing ship days. couple of wrinkled nose sniffs of your pea coat, then getting and finding another seat. Sailors used to sleep in hammocks, so you stowed your issue in a big canvas bag and lashed your Do they still issue seabags? Can you still make five hammock to it, hoisted it on your shoulder and, in bucks sitting up half the night drawing a ship's picture effect, moved your entire home from ship to ship. on the side of one of the damn things with black and I wouldn't say you traveled light because with ONE white marking pens that drive the old master-at-arms strap it was a one shoulder load that could torque your into a 'rig for heart attack' frenzy? Make their faces skeletal frame and bust your ankles. red... The veins on their neck bulge out.... And yell,

It was like hauling a dead Greenbay linebacker. 'What in God's name is that all over your seabag???' They wasted a lot of time in boot camp telling you how 'Artwork, Chief... It's like the work of Michelangelo... to pack one of the suckers. There was an officially MY ship... GREAT, huh?" "Looks like some damn comic book..." sanctioned method of organization that you forgot after ten minutes on the other side of the gate at Great Here was a man with cobras tattooed on his arms... A Lakes' or 's boot camp. skull with a dagger through one eye and a ribbon

You got rid of a lot of the 'issue' gear when you went to reading 'DEATH BEFORE SHORE DUTY' on his a SHIP. Did you EVER know a tin-can sailor who had a shoulder... Crossed anchors with 'Subic Bay-1945' on raincoat? A flat hat? One of those nut-hugger knit the other shoulder... An eagle on his chest and a full swimsuits? How bout those 'roll-your-own' blown Chinese dragon peeking out between the neckerchiefs... The ones girls in a good Naval tailor cheeks of his butt... If ANYONE was an authority on shop would cut down & sew into a 'greasy snake' for stuff that looked like a comic book, it HAD to be the MAA... two bucks?

Within six months, EVERY fleet sailor was down to Sometimes, I look at all the crap stacked in my garage ONE set of dress blues, port & starboard, undress and home, close my eyes and smile, remembering a blues, and whites, a couple of white hats, boots, shoes, time when EVERYTHING I owned could be crammed a watch cap, assorted skivvies, a pea coat, and three into a canvas bag. sets of bleached-out dungarees. The rest of your original issue was either in the pea October 12th to the 16, 2014 coat locker, lucky bag, or had been reduced to wipe- down rags in the paint locker. Reunion at Sam’s Town Las Vegas Underway ships were NOT ships that allowed vast accumulation of private gear.

Hobos who lived in discarded refrigerator crates could amass greater loads of pack-rat crap than fleet sailors. The confines of a canvas-back rack, side locker, and a couple of bunk bags did NOT allow one to live a Donald Trump existence.

Space and the going pay scale combined to make us envy the lifestyle of a mud-hut Ethiopian. We were global equivalents of nomadic Mongols without ponies to haul our stuff.

USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014 Page 5

USS Shields Christening & Shields' shakedown cruise, interrupted by a 9 day Commissioning Photos escort assignment with Iowa (BB-61), lasted from 7 March to 18 April 1945. She departed Puget Sound on 6 May and, after several days of operations in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, shoved off for Eniwetok Atoll with convoy #PD-413-T.

Her short period of combat service in World War II, 24 May-15 August 1945, consisted almost entirely of escort duty between and patrol duty around Eniwetok, , Leyte, Okinawa, and Borneo. Shields saw actual combat only once during the war; she shelled Japanese shore installations at Miri, Borneo, in support of Australian ground forces, on 26 June 1945. Shields was at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 15 August 1945 when she received orders from USS Shields Christening December 4, 1944 by CINCPACAREA to “cease all offensive activity Lt. (WAC) Margaret Graham (Shields) Farr who against the Japanese.” was the great granddaughter of Purser Thomas Shields. After a short cruise to Leyte, Subic Bay, and back to Okinawa, she got underway to rendezvous with TG 78.1 and serve as escort to units of Transron 17, at that time ferrying occupation troops to Jinsen, Korea. The occupation commenced without opposition; and, on 12 September, she steamed out of Jinsen with TU 71.5.1 bound for the waters off northern China.

For most of the remainder of 1945, Shields remained in the area of the Gulf of Po Hai. Her primary assignment here was to participate in the naval demonstrations being conducted off the coast of northern China. Throughout this period, she also reconnoitered the unstable situation at the port of Chefoo. Her travels while operating off northern China took her to most of the major ports on the Gulf of Po Hai, including Chefoo, Chinwangto, Weihaiwei, Taku, Dairen, and Port Arthur.

Shields rounded out her first Far Eastern tour with a mission to escort Antietam (CV-36) and Boxer (CV-21) to the end of the Seventh Fleet's area of responsibility and patrol duty with the Yangtze Official U.S. Navy Photos River Patrol Force based at Shanghai. She Courtesy of Julia Ann Dunbar (Shields) Mills returned to San Pedro Bay, , on 19 History of the Shields Source: Dictionary of American February 1946, having stopped along the way at Naval Fighting Ships (Published 1981) Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor. She remained on the west coast until being decommissioned and placed The keel of the destroyer, Shields, was laid on 10 in reserve on 14 June 1946. August 1943 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Though decommissioned, Shields continued in an Bremerton, Washington. Sponsored by First in-service status, participating in the reserve Lieutenant Margaret Shields Farr, WAC, the great- program. She was called back into active service granddaughter of Purser Shields, the destroyer at the outbreak of the Korean conflict and was launched on 25 September1944 and recommissioned on 15 July 1950. commissioned on 8 February 1945, Commander Continued on the following page George B. Madden, USN, in command. USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014 Page 6

2014 Dues are Due USS Shields History Your $25.00 annual dues support the printing and postage (Continued) for newsletters, currently about $900 for each issue. They cover the expenses of locating shipmates and maintaining the master contact list. Shields arrived in the Far East in September 1951 for the first of three tours. Please complete the dues form on the page opposite and mail with your check to Bob Carl. His address is on the During this cruise, which lasted until February 1952, she contact list page 2. Your dues start new at the beginning of each year. No unpaid dues are carried forward. patrolled the Korean coast in the area of the bombline and Kojo, providing fire support for the First ROK Corps and Your dues do not support reunion activities; these activities the First Marine Division. She participated in the assault are self-sustaining. All board members and friends of the on Kojo and provided harassing and interdiction fire. Her board volunteer; no one receives compensation in the second Korean War tour, commencing on 1 November Association.

1952, found her again cruising off the Korean coast near Bob Carl, Secretary, has received duplicate and multiyear the bombline supporting the First ROK Corps and the dues payments from shipmates. Bob applies duplicate dues Eighth Army. Later she took part in antisubmarine warfare payments to the future year(s). Current list is below. Thanks exercises off the coasts of and Okinawa and to those who have paid in advance. concluded the deployment training Chinese Nationalist The association currently mails the newsletter to all located naval forces at . Stopping at and shipmates, regardless of dues status. Japan, Shields returned to San Diego on 1 June 1953. Shipmates whose dues are paid for 2014 and After six months on the west coast, she departed for her beyond as of December 2013 third Far Eastern cruise. Arriving off Korea on 11 Armstrong, William 2014 February, she operated there with TF 77 until being Beard, Wendell 2014 detached, on 21 February, to proceed to the Philippine Bengston, Paul 2014 Islands. Shields conducted operations out of Subic Bay Bougher, George 2014-2015 during the months of March and April, patrolling the coast Charneco, Carlos 2014 of Indochina with Carrier TG 70.2. On 7 May, she Clarr, Harry 2014 embarked for Yokosuka, Japan, stopping en route for a Crenshaw, Curtis 2014-2015 Diedrich, Charles 2014 diplomatic representation at Hong Kong. After a week of Dukett, James 2014 tender upkeep at Yokosuka, Shields put to sea with TF 77 Durough, James 2014 to conduct battle exercises. She returned to San Diego on Ferris, Gordon 2014-2020 18 July 1954. Frank, Darrel 2014 Freimuth, Darrel 2014 Between 18 July 1954 and 30 November 1963, Shields George, Irl 2014 was deployed to WESTPAC seven times. When not Griffee, Willis 2014 assigned to the western Pacific, she engaged in normal Griggers, Jesse 2014 Helberg, Glen 2014-2015 destroyer activities out of her home port, San Diego. One Houk, Samuel 2014 of the highlights of this decade of Shields' career was her Kaylor, John 2014 participation in the commemoration of the triumphant Koch, Fred 2014-2016 return of Theodore Roosevelt's "" to San Kraus, Harold 2014 Francisco. Another important occasion was the award of Kuhhirte, Bill 2014 the Battle Efficiency "E" for overall combat readiness in Land, Walter 2014-2015 August 1960. Leclair, Richard 2014-2015 Leondis, Alexander 2014-2016 Leslie, Carlton 2014 On 30 November 1963, Shields ceased operations as an Lowder, Donald 2014-2016 active fleet unit and was assigned as a Naval Reserve Lynch, Jack 2014 Training ship, part of Reserve Destroyer Squadron MacNeil, Robert 2014-2015 27.With her full-time crew cut more than 50%, she spent Maurice, Robert 2014 the next 8 years working with the Development and Miller, Joe 2014-2015 Training Command to maintain the combat efficiency of Misel, Donald 2014 reservists. Nirdlinger, Brian 2014 Persall, Willis 2014 Purdy, William 2014 After a survey of Shields in March 1972, it was determined Ramsay, James 2014 that the cost of her modernization would be prohibitive and Riley, Edward 2014 that she was only of marginal value to the Navy without it. Rogers, Shelby 2014 Consequently, Shields was decommissioned on 1 July Sewell, James 2014 1972 and sold to the Brazilian Navy. Simmons, William 2014 Smith, K. C. 2014 Shields was awarded the Korean Presidential Unit Citation Sperandio, Joseph 2014 and three battle stars for service in the Korean Conflict. Spickler, Ronald 2014 Staring, Graydon 2014 Stoermann, John 2014 Thorn, VanRichard 2014 Wilmot, Richard 2014 Wold, Roger 2014 Zimmer, Wayne 2014 USS SHIELDS DD-596 All Eras Reunion Association Newsletter January 2014 Page 7

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