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USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG -7)   

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Ed Raley Plank owner ET-3 59-62 Obituary
1941-2024

Mug from Jim Hoey WO-4/LT (LDO)  15 Aug 2024

Wilsonviews & Plan of the Day
Sent in from Andy Cardno  1975-1979 RM2
16 July 2023

 

Dan Moore aboard HBW 1982-1984 OS3

Command History 1984

1 May 2023

Entries from Jim Hoey WO-4/LT (LDO)
11 February 2023

Commanding Officers Plaque from Captain Glenn Berree the last Captain. 
It was on the inside of Captain's Cabin Door, with all the Captains listed over the years.

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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 Lawrence D. Caney - Passed Away - 20 November 2009

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

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

      
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