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	69k	Samuel Booker Roberts, Jr., born in San Francisco, California, on 12 May 1921, enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 13 April 1939 at Portland, Oreg. He advanced to the rank of Coxswain and served continuously until his death on 28 September 1942. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving on the crew of a landing craft that, despite intense enemy fire, rescued stranded marines from Guadalcanal. U.S. Navy Photo.		Bill Gonyo
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823)
	141k	Undated, Venice, Italy.		Jack Phifer
	35k	Undated, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	51k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	60k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
0582328	245k	Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823) conducting underway replenishment, date and location unknown.		Dave Wright
	133k	20 November 1948 photo of USS Leyte (CV-32), USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) and USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823), conducting underway replenishment during "Operation Frigid."		Robert M. Cieri
	120k	Our Navy Magazine, first issue of September 1953.		Stanley Svec
	100k	Naragansett Bay, circa 1959.		Marc Piché
	148k	Hi-line from the USS Keppler (DD-765) in the 1960s.		Ed Zajkowski
	141k	As above.		Ed Zajkowski
	44k	Quebec July 1962.		Marc Piché
	148k	August 10 1963, Port Royal Bay, Bermuda. Keppler along with the USS Warrington (DD-843), USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823) and USS Stribling (DD-867). Photo by PHC Warren Jackman.		Ed Zajkowski
	155k	August 10 1963, Port Royal Bay, Bermuda. Keppler along with the USS Warrington (DD-843) and USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823). Photo by PHC Warren Jackman.		Ed Zajkowski
	160k	USS Samuel B Roberts (DD-823) underway in Maltese waters, in 1964. Image from the 1966/67 Edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.		Robert Hurst
	53k	Carrier Division Three, First Nuclear Powered Task Group in Combat, Vietnam, 2 December 1965. USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), with Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9); USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25); USS Barry (DD-933); USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823). [On 2 December 1965] "Enterprise became the first nuclear powered warship to engage in combat operations when aircraft of Attack Carrier Air Wing NINE launched 118 sorties against the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. For the rest of the month, the Big E carried out a relentless campaign against the enemy, primarily in North Vietnam, blasting military facilities, transportation networks, military storage areas, and barges and junks carrying supplies to the Communist forces in South Vietnam." Quoted from the ship's Command History for 1965.		Richard Allen
	41k	USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823) being sunk as a target by a Grumman A-6A Intruder of attack squadron VA-34 Blue Blasters (Cdr. Turk), assigned to Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1), aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67), 14 November 1971, location 21° 42' 48? N, 65° 55' 6? W. U.S. Navy photo from the USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) Mediterranean Cruise Book 1971-72.		Robert Hurst
	52k	Ship's patch		Mike Smolinski
	328k	Ship's patch		Tom Gamstetter
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CDR Leslie Kelly Taylor    1948 - Jan 30 1950

CDR Joseph Patrick Costello    Jan 30 1950 - Nov 15 1951 (Later RADM)

CDR Paul Jerry Brownlow    Nov 15 1951 - Jan 1954

CDR Robert Earle Hawthorne    Jan 1954 - Apr 1956

CDR Richard Henry White    Apr 1956 - May 1957

CDR Arden Eugene Baughman    May 1957 - 1958

CDR Carol Anton Turner    1958 - 1959

CDR Pleasant Lawrence Murphy    1959 - 1961

CDR Raymond Edward Ward    1961 - 1962

CDR William Booth Murray Jr.    1962 - 1964

CDR Charles Anthony Rankowski    1964 - Nov 1965

CDR William Reed Glaser    Nov 1965 - Jul 1967

CDR Samuel Oather Jones Jr.    Jul 1967 - 1969

CDR Richard Daniel Coogan    1969 - Nov 2 1970