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USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG -7)

Commander Charlie Busenlehner (plank) passed away 5 August 2017

Apparently developed pneumonia and just lost the battle.

Sorry to see him go ... he was one of the good guys. He was one of

the original planners of the first reunion.

CHARLES E. BUSENLEHNER III, 90, Apopka, died Saturday, August 5. Mr. Busenlehner was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He retired from the U.S. Navy after 30 years of service from 1944 to 1974. He was a member of Errol Estate Golf and Tennis Club. Survivors: wife, Esther; sons, Charles E. IV, Adam; daughters, Nora L. Sullivan, Joyce McFall, Kimberly Frost; 12 grandchildren. He would have been married 72 years on Sept 15th.

4 June 2017 New Pictures from Frank Parker Shakedown Cruise Feb and Mar of 1961

Hawaii Cruise Reunion 29 April 2017

10-Sep-2017 12:12 Last Up Date

Site Visits

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^ndCommander 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"

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

G Award for ribbon identification

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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.

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.