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High School Wall of Honor Edward McCoy Baty Class of June, 1946 |
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| Research done by Claradell Shedd, Class of 1953. PAGE IN PROGRESS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mac graduated from North High School in June, 1946. Mac was commissioned in the US Navy in 1950. His service number was _______Mac's next of kin was listed as Mr. E.J. Baty, 2615 35th Street, Des Moines, IA. Some of the entries and photos below will be substituted for the correct information, when received for Edward McCoy Baty. |
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| Commander Edward McCoy BATY was born in Des Moines, Iowa on September 26, 1928. Commander BATY commenced his Naval Service as a Midshipman, U.S. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, in September 1946. He served in the USS ENDICOTT (DMS-35) after receiving his commission from July 1950 to October 1952, during which time the ENDICOTT was engaged in heavy shore bombardment and mine sweeping operations in Korean waters. While attached to USS ENDICOTT, Commander BATY was awarded the Commendation Ribbon with Combat Distinguishing Device for meritorious service as Gunnery and Main Battery Control Officer. Following this duty, Commander BATY served on the pre-commissioning detail of USS JOHN S. MCCAIN (DL-3) and served on board after commissioning as Fire Control Officer, until July 1, 1955. From August 1955 to July 1957 he was attending U.S. Naval Post-graduate School at Monterey, California as an Ordnance Engineering, Fire Control student. From Monterey Commander BATY went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his Master's degree. After graduation in May 1958, he reported aboard the USS NEWPORT NEWS (CA-148) where he served as AA Control Officer, Acting Gunnery Officer and spent the last year on board as Navigator. In July 1960, he was ordered to the Special Projects Office, Bureau of Naval weapons where he served in the Fire Control and Guidance Branch until July 1963, Commander BATY reported aboard the USS SAMPSON (DDG-10) to serve as Executive Officer until December 1964 when ordered to the USS ALLEN M. SUMNER (DD-692) as Commanding Officer. He retired in April 1980 as a Captain and passed away October 16, 1997. Captain BATY assumed command of the Sumner December 23, 1964 while the ship was in drydock in Charleston, South Carolina. He was relieved by Captain BEAMAN October 6, 1966 in Mayport, Florida. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (1) USS Endicott
(DMS-35) USS Endicott, a 1630-ton Gleaves class destroyer, was built at Seattle, Washington. Commissioned in February 1943, she served as an Atlantic convoy escort for over a year, then participated in the Invasion of Southern France in August 1944. On 17 August 1944, while covering that invasion, she engaged and sank two German warships. During the rest of 1944 and into 1945, Endicott took part in additional Mediterranean coastal operations and in Atlantic escort duties. In May 1945, she was converted to a fast minesweeper and redesignated DMS-35. Transferred to the Pacific after conversion, she spent several months following the Japanese surrender helping to clear mines in Asian waters. Endicott operated along the Pacific coast from 1946 to 1950. When the Korean War began in June 1950. She was immediately sent to the Far East, where she provided escort, bombardment, minesweeping and patrol services until March 1951. Two more Korean War tours followed in 1951-52 and 1953. USS Endicott decommissioned in August 1954. In July of the next year, while laid up in "mothballs", her hull number was changed back to DD-495. She was sold for scrapping some fifteen years later, in October 1970. |
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| (2) USS John
S. McCain The USS John S. McCain spent her first year of commissioned service undergoing sea trials and shakedown training in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. One of the Mitscher-class of large and fast destroyer leaders, she carried the new guided-missile armament, and she embodied new ideas in hull design and construction. This warship arrived at Norfolk on 19 May 1955 to begin service with the Operational Development Force in testing new equipment and tactics. She operated out of Norfolk until 5 November 1956, when she steamed from Hampton Roads bound for the Panama Canal and San Diego, California. After her arrival on 4 December 1956, she spent five months on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean off California. |
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| (3) USS Newport
News (CA-148) In addition to annual deployments to the Mediterranean from 1950 to 1961 for duty with the Sixth Fleet, she participated in major fleet exercises and midshipman training cruises in the Caribbean and Western Atlantic. |
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| (4) USS Sampson
(DDG-10) Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay in September, Sampson tested and evaluated the Tartar missile system off Puerto Rico. Homeported at Norfolk, Virginia, she conducted further tests and trials in early 1962 before joining Destroyer Squadron 18 (DesRon 18) and Destroyer Division 182 (DesDiv 182) in July. Composed completely of missile ships, DesRon 18 was then the most modern squadron in the Navy. Further radar and missile tests followed in 1963; and, in July, Sampson operated in the Midshipman Training Squadron. Finally, in January 1964, Sampson fired two Tartar missiles under simulated combat conditions. During 1964, she also underwent her first regular overhaul, and received missile replenishment at sea from helicopters. |
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| (5) USS Sumner
(DD-692) CDR Baty in command December 23, 1964 through October 6,
1966. The third USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), the lead ship of her class, was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1973. |
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| (6) USS Catskill
(MCS-1) Reclassified Mine Countermeasures Support Ship MCS-1, 18 October 1956 Converted to an MCS in FY 1964 at Boland Machine Manufacturing Company of New Orleans, Louisiana from 25 June 1964 to 8 September 1967, USS Catskill (MCS-1) was recommissioned 6 October 1967. During the Vietnam War Catskill participated in the following campaigns: Tet 69/Counteroffensive (5 to 11 May 1969) Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 (9 to 18 June 1969) Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 (14 March to 12 April 1970) Sanctuary Counteroffensive (28 to 30 June 1970) Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII (1 July 1970) Decommissioned in December, 1970 at the Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California, Catskill was struck from the Naval Register (date unknown) and believed to have been scrapped. Catskill received three battle stars for World War II service and five campaign stars for Vietnam War service. |
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| (7) USS Yellowstone
(AD-27) A little more than a month later, the tender's talent was once again subjected to a rigorous test. On 10 February 1970 at Naples, the Greek registry freighter Mautric collided with Yellowstone and the tender's nest of destroyers. The USS Semmes (DDG-18), the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823), and the USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) all suffered extensive hull and structural damage, but Yellowstone worked nearly 24-hour shifts from 13 February to 22 February and effected the necessary repairs. Capt. R. D. Wood, commanding Yellowstone, and Senior Chief Ship Fitter William S. Burman received Navy commendation medals for heading the exemplary repair work that soon had all ships back in operational condition. USS Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside, circa 1950. The destroyers are the USS Rich (DD-820), the USS Damato (DD-871), and the USS William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early GUPPY conversion submarines is alongside to starboard.After a brief in-port period at Piraeus, Greece from 18 March to 5 April, Yellowstone returned to Naples, where she subsequently performed her second underwater propeller replacement of the deployment on the USS Corry (DD-817). The repair ship sailed for home in mid-May and arrived at Mayport, Florida on 1 June. One month later, on 1 July, the ship's home port was changed from Mayport to Charleston, South Carolina. The destroyer tender provided services to ships of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla (CruDesFlot) 6 into January 1971. At the end of that month, she sailed for Puerto Rico and took part in "Springboard" exercises before returning to Charleston on 16 February. That spring, when the Commander, CruDesFlot 6, embarked with the USS America (CV-66) to deploy to the 6th Fleet, Yellowstone's commanding officer became the administrative deputy to the Charleston representative of Commander, CruDesFlot 6. In that role, he coordinated local pier assignments; arranged for tug and tow services; made military guardship and pier sentry assignments; scheduled ship tours; provided information and assistance to dependents; and represented the destroyer force at meetings of numerous naval station, base, and district advisory boards and committees. Yellowstone remained in port at Charleston into 1973. Among the noteworthy events that occurred that year was the ship's nomination to receive the Ney Award, recognizing the ship's outstanding food service mess, as the nominee of the Commander, Cruiser Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet. After 28 years of continuous service to the Fleet (the last few years of which were spent along the eastern seaboard of the United States) Yellowstone was decommissioned on 11 September 1974. YELLOWSTONE was deployed to the Mediterranean 11 times between 1947 and 1968. Her ports of operation ranged from Izmir, Turkey, to Naples, Italy; from Venice to Taranto, from Suda Bay, Crete, to Gibraltar. From 1962 through 1970, YELLOWSTONE acted as a "at sea" training facility for Naval technicians charged with maintaining DASH on destroyers. YELLOWSTONE also maintained 3 QH-50C/D aircraft on board to replace losses on destroyers. |
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