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USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG -7)

Planning Hawaii Cruise Reunion 29 April 2017
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Side Launch BAY CITY, MI

time: 1250 - date: 22 April 1959 First DDG hits the water

At the moment of the breaking of her commissioning pennant, the USS H. B. Wilson DDG-7
became the responsibility of Captain L. D. Caney (ret) who, together with the ships company,
then had the duty of making and keeping her constantly ready for any service
demanded by our Country in peace or war.

Plank Captain Caney - Passed Away - 20 November 2009

Vice Admiral John "Jack" Shanahan, Jr., February 3, 1923 - September 10, 2013

Commissioned 17 December 1960

Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston Massachusetts

SUBSEQUENT COMMANDING OFFICERS OF THE
USS HENRY B. WILSON DDG -7 

2^nd Commander D. C. Redgrave
3^rd Commander W. C. Harris
4^th Commander E. L. West
5^th Commander Edward M. Cocke
6^th Commander Eugene I. Finke
7^th Commander Henry C. Mustin
8^th Commander Charles G. Farnham
9^th Commander Robert L. Jensen
10^th Commander J. Michael Rodgers
11^th Commander R. T. S. Keith, Jr.
12^th Commander Eugene S. Dvornick
13^th Commander William J. Hill
14^th Commander C. van der Schroef
15^th Commander John T. Gilmartin
16^th Commander Thomas H. Berns
17^th Commander N. Glen Berree
18^th Commander David L. Johnson

Decommissioned 2 October 1989

 To hear Theme Song, "Magnificent Seven" Open this home page with Internet Explorer
or click link Magnificent Seven

A link to Captain Caney's  -  his fathers favorite's from WW I era
"Smiles"
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/ww1-music/smiles.htm

Lyric by J. Will Callahan, 1874-1946
Music by Lee S. Roberts, 1884-1949
Published 1917:  Jerome H. Remick & Co, New York
MIDI file courtesy Benjamin Tubb. 

      
                                                  G Award for ribbon identification

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