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Summer 08 Fireball 5030775.Pub (Read-Only) VOLUME 17, NO. 3 FIREBALL! SUMMER 2008 Pvt. Joseph W. Ozbourn Tinian, Marianas Islands The official newsletter of the USS Ozbourn (DD 846) Association 28 July 1944 Dedicated to perpetuating the memory of a gallant Marine and the history of a fine ship Visit our website at www.ozbourn.org FROM THE BRIDGE SELECTION OF 2009 REUNION SITE DUE BY END OF SEPTEMBER he “From the Bridge” column will he Ozbourn Association’s reunion committee, comprised of Ray Loney, not appear in the summer issue of Ken Keene, Tom Perkins and Jim McDaniel, have narrowed the search T the Fireball. USS Ozbourn Asso- T for the Association’s 2009 biennial reunion site down to two locations. ciation President Guy Posey will resume “During the 2007 reunion in Seattle, the reunion committee was directed to his “From the Bridge” column in the next focus on locations in mid America,” said Loney. “The committee is currently issue. looking at St. Louis, MO and Mobile, AL to hold our next reunion.” According to Loney, Mobile is the home of the USS Alabama Battleship GET INVOLVED IN YOUR Memorial and is under consideration as OZBOURN a possible tour site. NAS Pensacola, FL ASSOCIATION is only 45 minutes from Mobile. St. t’s never too early to give some serious Louis is centrally located in the U.S. and consideration to becoming an officer of has several military museums to visit. the USS Ozbourn Association. Two Below the Gateway Arch is a huge mu- I seum devoted to the Lewis and Clark positions are opening within the next 15 months and will be voted upon during the Expedition. 2009 biennial reunion. The two positions opening up for Shown above is the USS Ala- change starting after next year’s reunion bama, BB 60. The dreadnaught sits in include: Mobile Bay and is part of the USS • Treasurer, which is currently held by Alabama Battleship Memorial. Warren Zschach; and • Corresponding Secretary and Editor of We’re on the Web at the Fireball, which is currently held by Rick Johnson. www.ozbourn.org Any shipmate interested in assuming The following information can either of the two above listed positions be found on the Association’s Web The famous Gateway Arch looms should contact USS Ozbourn Association site: Mission statement, complete large over the St. Louis skyline. There President Guy Posey at: history, current and past newsletters, is a monument located below the base 18101 Chisholm St. a list of Ozbourn shipmates, histori- of the Arch and above the Mississippi Stillwater, OK 74075 cal photographs, the ship’s store for River marking one of the river’s historic Tel: 405 377-6122 ordering Ozbourn memorabilia, how flood levels E-mail: [email protected] to join, and special links. E-MAIL ADDRESS UPDATES or any of those shipmates who have been frustrated trying to contact either Rudy Boff, proprietor of the USS Ozbourn’s ship’s store or Rick Johnson, publisher of the Fireball newsletter, here are some updates as to the correct e-mail addresses F of both shipmates. Rudy Boff’s e-mail address was recently changed and appeared in the spring issue of the Fireball. Any shipmate wanting to order something from the ship’s store should e-mail Rudy at: [email protected]. Any shipmate who wants to share their memories of their time aboard the Ozbourn with stories, photos or documents, should contact Rick Johnson at: [email protected]. In the column listing the Officers of the Association, Rick’s e-mail address was broken with a hyphen, which normally doesn’t appear in e-mail addresses. Fireball,Fireball, Summer Winter 2008 2008 1 Gedunk Call! Officers of the Association very shipmate who spent at least one day at sea has fond memories of Navy chow below on the mess deck. Yummy meals such as S.O.S., runny scrambled President eggs, roast beef and mashed potatoes, corned beef and cabbage that tasted like E Guy Posey (69-71) roast beef and mashed potatoes, reconstituted milk, individually packaged breakfast ce- 18101 Chisholm St. real labeled with a five-year past due date, and of course the ultimate Navy gourmet Stillwater, OK 74075 meal, the soup sandwich. Tel: 405 377 5634 The Gedunk Call for this issue of the Fireball is, “What are the ingredients of the Email: [email protected] soup sandwich?” Send your answer to Rick Johnson at [email protected]. Vice President Kenneth E. Keene (71-74) 9995 Perry Highway Meadville, PA 16335-6445 BEER PARTY — Several shipmates from Tel: 814 337 3197 the Ozbourn enjoy a beer party on Midway Email: [email protected] Island in May of 1952. Those were the days when beer was sold in tin cans and Corresponding Secretary and Fireball only the strongest men could crush one Editor with his bare hands. Richard N. Johnson (61-64) 5899 North Bronco Lane Gedunk Call Answer! Fireball Prescott Valley, AZ 86314-5892 he Gedunk Call for the spring 2008 issue of the was, “Why do the side Tel: 928 775 4205 T numbers of U.S. Navy ships look to be faded or washed out?” Email: [email protected] Shipmate Tom Perkins provided the correct answer by saying, “The elimi- nation of black and white colors previously found on Navy vessels, to include hull num- Recording Secretary bers and draft marks, reduces the average contrast of the ship to the horizon, thus help- ing to mitigate the probability of detection and targeting.” Bravo Zulu Tom. William L. Jones (51-52) The two historic photos of the USS Ozbourn show a digitally altered photo taken 15721 Piccadilly Road in the 1950s and the look of the traditional hull number of the ship in a photo taken in Goodyear, AZ 85395 1964. Tel: 623 935 1073 Email: [email protected] Treasurer and Historian Faded Hull Number — The photo at left shows the Ozbourn’s hull number Warren Zschach (52-55) faded or washed out. The 1311 Ponderosa Dr. Petaluma, CA 94954-4393 photo was taken sometime Tel: 707 762 0469 during the 1950s. The hull Email: [email protected] number was digitally faded to approximate what it Past Presidents would look like in today’s Years served aboard ship/Assoc. Pres. modern Navy. Robert Whitten, Jr. (50-52)/(93-99) Cupertino, CA W.D. Minter (52-55)/(99-03) Texarkana, TX Rudy Boff (52-55)/(09-07) Pittsburgh, PA PUBLICATION DEADLINE If you have a letter, story or photo you would like to share with other Ozbourn shipmates, the deadline Ozbourn at Sea — for submitting contributions for the The photo above was fall 2008 issue is Monday . Septem- taken of the OZ in 1964 ber 15 Articles may be rewritten for showing the traditional purposes of editorial style. Due to black and white 846 space limitations, some materials may hull number. used in a future Fireball edition. 2 Fireball, Summer 2008 MAIL CALL I called Eddie Newman (one of four Marines whose life was saved by the brave action of PVT Joseph W. Ozbourn) to find if he knew Keller’s father. He had no recollection of the name but was going to look him up in his Marine “Red” book. Eddie is 86 years old and doing well. The following letters He filled me in on his memories of island landings he and e-mails were re- made. It was an interesting conversation as his memory is ceived by your Asso- very good as to dates and events. He had an hour and half of ciation Officers dur- his 37 days on Saipan memories taped for the National Ar- ing the last quarter. chives. There was one clip inserted into Ken Burns WWII Hi Rick: documentary. Newman said the clip was about him hiding behind a dead cow and when he shot his first Japanese sol- I happened to have been surfing on the Net looking for dier. He is going to mail me a copy of the tape. people I served with in the Navy back in the 60s. I found that Newman would like to attend another of our reunions, a CDR David W. Berger was skipper of the USS Ozbourn but his wife is blind and has dementia and is unable to travel from 1963 to 1964. I served under a CDR David W. Berger, much. USN, who in 1966-1967, was the reactor officer aboard the I also e-mailed Bob Keller and found out his father was USS Enterprise (CVAN-65). Could these two have been the a Drum Major in the 24th Regiment Band with the 4th Ma- same person? rines and was used to bring wounded marines to aid stations The CDR Berger I worked under left the ship mysteri- and to recover and bury dead Marines. Eddie Newman, Her- ously in January 1967 while on Yankee Station, N. Vietnam, man Schwab, Tex Freeman and Delbert Fliear were all during combat operations. I have never been able to find out wounded the same day that Joseph Ozbourn was killed. So what happened and where the CDR Berger I knew ended up. it’s possible that Keller’s father assisted in part or in whole This is still somewhat incredible, but my father served with the evacuation of all four Marines. on Tinian during WWII with the 4th Marine Division and most likely knew well of PVT Joseph Ozbourn, USMCR. Warren Zschach (52-55) Bob Keller Editor’s Note: Sacramento, CA E-mail: [email protected] There was some confusion among some shipmates as to whether this was the same CDR David Berger that served as Responses to Bob Keller’s e-mail the Ozbourn’s skipper and then transferred to the USS Enter- I served aboard the Ozbourn between November 1961 prise.
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