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Subject: Looking Back

Published: January 1997

By: Cdr R G Langland

 

It is hard to look back more than 58 years to when we stood on the dock in Philadelphia to go aboard to put the Savannah in commission.

 

I spent over 4 years on the ship – 2 years in the Radio Transmitter room and 2 years flying as radiomen 1st class in the SOCs. . .

 

I have attended only one reunion, the 12th, in San Diego.  However, I do enjoy the Savannah newsletters.  She was a great ship and a fine crew, and many hundreds of memories including my being picked up by an old WWI 4-stack destroyer when I ended up in the Atlantic Ocean when we lost SOC #1187 on April 13, 1942 flying with Lt(jg) Anderson.

 

I retired in May 1966 after spending 30 years active duty in the US Navy.

 

Some expense money is enclosed.

 

Cdr R G (Bob) Langland