About Paul D.
Henriott
USS OAKLAND CL/CLAA-95 50th
Decommissioning
Anniversary And
Memorial Roll
Call Honoring Our Deceased
Shipmates 3
July 1999
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GM3c
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Picture taken in
January 1945
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GM2c
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Born in Louisville,
Kentucky to
John and Edna Henriott on 26 August 1925.
Home town Rochester,
Indiana. Attended
Grade and High school in the Rochester
area.
Entered the US Navy on
05 January 1943
at Indianapolis, Indiana. The service number
assigned was USN 291-91-49.
Assigned to Company 39,
Great Lakes
Naval Training Center, Illinois for basic training.
CPO Green was the company commander. Departed March 1943 for Treasure
Island, California.
Assigned to the USS
OAKLAND pre-commissioning
crew to receive additional training;
received
medical and dental checkups and any necessary work needed to
make each sailor in tip top shape. Departed 17 July 1943 to the
USS
OAKLAND.
Assigned to the First
Division,
Turret 2 as a Seaman 2C gunner's mate striker. When
we went into comissission, the main battery was called Turrets. I think
all the Turrets had Chief Turret Captains
assigned. In Turret 2 we had Chief Turret
Captain George Haines and Turret Captain First Class Joseph Estes. All
Turret Captains left the Oakland some
time
in March or April of 1944, then the main battery
title was changed from Turrets to Mounts. All of my service in the
First Division
was served in Turret 2 and Mount 52, advancing from Gunners Mate Striker
to Mount Captain. Later I was assigned to Fox Division and served in
the armory.
Served aboard until March 1948, for total of 4 years and 8 months.
Served in USS Leonard
Foster Mason,
DD-852, a destroyer, until February 1950, for
a total of 1 year and 11 months. My duties in the MASON were MountCaptain
of Mount 52 in the First divison. Traveled to the Far East in both 1948
and 1949, visiting China, Japan,
and the
Phillippines.
In November 1949 while visiting
Shanghai,
China, the Chinese Communists took over Shanghai. USS LEONARD F.
MASON anchored at the mouth of the Yangtze river for one month to keep American
shipping out.
Discharged from the U.S.
Navy on
06 February 1950. Total period of service in the
US Navy was 7 years and 1 month and highest rate held was Gunners Mate
2 Class.
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is maintained by Paul D.
Henriott
Last updated 15 June 2005
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