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Bernard H. Eldredge
Years Served: Oct 1961-June 1961
Had a great time, great north atlantic cruise, christmas party in germany, I went on to the USS Berkeley DDG-15. stayed with the navy 42 yrs 11 months 7 days, presently president of the naval enlisted reserve association USS Briarcliff chapter Staten Island bernieusnret4211@aol.com
John H. Swope
Years Served: 1961
Was only on the Miller for a short time, waiting to be discharged. I transferred from the USS Hugh Purvis DD709. The Purvis was going to the Med. and I didn't have enough time left. I was an RM3.
Arthur Stephen Benoit
Years Served: 1961-1962
Hi Shipmates,
Am looking for William Williams and Billy Daniels. Does anyone know anything about them? Would appreciate any info you may have. Many thanks.
William Snyder
Years Served: 1960-1962
Ship's Cook; 3rd Class P.O. Would love to hear from any fellow shipmates. Contact by email or phone (908)464-0553.
Hope to hear from you. William Duke Snyder
Bob Hammond
Years Served: 1964
I sailed on the USS Miller (DD-535) when she served as a Naval Reserve training ship based out of South Boston. My 2-week reserve training cruise (first time on the high seas) took me from snowy Boston in January 1964, thru HEAVY seas over the Graveyard of the Atlantic off Cape Hatteras, NC, then to San Juan Puerto Rico. She had to be drydocked there for repairs to rudder damage from the storm but we made it back to Boston OK. I chipped her paint and swabbed her deck but while standing the midwatch as bridge lookout, the OIC let me actually take the helm for about 15 minutes. Later that year I went thru Class A YN school at Bainbridge and served on the 6th Fleet Flag Allowance for a 22-month Med cruise on board USS Springfield (CLG-7) homeported at Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. A couple of years ago I was watching a tv documentary on naval history and there she was, with the big 535 hull number sailing o'er the bounding main, in living color, but only for a few seconds. I hope you all know that she was named for Doris (Dorie) Miller, the messman on the USS West Virginia who, after the ship was bombed at Pearl Harbor, aided the fatally-wounded CO and manned an AA gun and shot down several Jap planes, winning the Navy Medal for his action. I have an original recruiting poster showing him. He was lost when his later ship, USS Liscome Bay, was sunk with all hands off Makin Island. I later moved to NC where I still live, across the river and up a ways from the Showboat, USS North Carolina BB-55.
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I read with interest in the TIN CAN SAILORS mag of the passing of DONALD SHOLTZ. Where did he come from as I knew a buddy by that name from Pittsburgh, PA. when I was in high school. Can anyone respond to this?