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1^st Commander L.D. Caney                         1961 Shakedown        Cruise Book on web site
1st Commander L.D. Caney                          1962 Westpac             Cruise Book on web site
2^ndCommander D. C. Redgrave
3^rd Commander W. C. Harris
4^th Commander E. L. West
5^th Commander Edward M. Cocke                1966-67                       Cruise Book on web site
6^th Commander Eugene I. Finke                    1968                            Cruise Book on web site
7^th Commander Henry C. Mustin                  1969-70                       Cruise Book on web site
8^th Commander Charles G. Farnham            1971                             Cruise Book on web site
9^th   Commander Robert L. Jensen
10^th Commander J. Michael Rodgers            1975                           Cruise book on web site
11^th Commander R. T. S. Keith, Jr.               1976-77                      Cruise Book on web site
12^th Commander Eugene S. Dvornick
13^th Commander William J. Hill                     1979-80                       Cruise Book on web site
14^th Commander C. van der Schroef
15^th Captain John Thomas Gilmartin             1984                            Cruise book on web site
16^th Commander Thomas H. Berns               1986-87                       Cruise Book on web site
17^th Commander N. Glen Berree
18^th Commander David L. Johnson              1988-89                         Cruise Book on web site

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Commissioned: 17 December 1960
Decommissioned: 2 October 1989
DATE OF DEPARTURE                     DATE OF RETURN                             AREA OF OPERATION
February 1961 (11-60)                          May 1961 (4-61)                                    See “Shakedown Cruise”
6 January 1962                                      19 July 1962                                           WestPac
17 October 1963                                    16 April 1964                                         WestPac
4 June 1965                                            24 November 1965                                WestPac/Vietnam
5 November 1966                                  2 August 1967                                      WestPac/Vietnam
9 February 1968                                    24 August 1968                                    WestPac/Vietnam
13 October 1969                                    15 April 1970                                         WestPac/Vietnam
11 June 1971                                          18 December 1971                                WestPac/Vietnam
DDG7/WCC:wc 5750 Ser 07 of 22 Feb 1973    1 February 1973                                   WestPac/Vietnam
30 January 1975                                    2 September 1975                                 WestPac/Vietnam
10 August 1976                                    21 March 1977                                      WestPac
8 August 1979                                      14 February 1980                                  WestPac
27 February 1981                                  21 September 1981                               WestPac
16 March 1984                                      2 October 1984                                      WestPac
15 September 1986                               14 March 1987                                      WestPac/IO
2 December 1988                                  1 June 1989                                           WestPac/IO

Note: Operations by the ship in local waters along the West Coast and also in Hawaii were not considered major overseas deployments. Deployments begin on the date of departure from home port and end on the date of turn to home port.

1966 - 67 Ray Kenoyer / Tim Ten Eyck 1968 Captain Eugene I. Finke / Tim Ten Eyck RD3
Captain Fink Obituary

Commander Robert L. Jensen, commanding officer of the of the San Diego based guided missile destroyer USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7), received the Silver Star Medal during underway ceremonies 26 November 1972. The ship was steaming in the South China Sea when the nation’s fourth highest military decoration was presented by Capt. Paul H. Dallman, Commander Destroyer Squadron Twenty Nine.

The award was given as a result of Cdr. Jensen’s actions during a daylight raid on 9 August 1972, against the heavily fortified Vinh Quanq area of North Vietnam.

The citation read in part: “Upon arrival in the target area, USS Henry B. Wilson came under heavy hostile fire. Despite the intense and accurate enemy fire, Cdr. Jensen continued to close the rand to the primary target. Upon reaching the pre-determined firing position he opened fire and completely destroyed over 100,000 rounds of large caliber ammunition. With his ship receiving shrapnel from the increasing number of hostile rounds straddling and falling close aboard he skillfully maneuvered his ship to the safety of open waters. Cdr. Jensen’s superb seamanship, courage and devotion to duty reflected great credit on himself and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.” (Submitted by Bill Ogden)

  1986 - 1987 Gregory Martin                                                     Final Cruise 1988-89 Commander David Johnson