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	67k	Willis A. Lee, Jr. was born in Natlee, Kentucky, on 11 May 1888. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1908. Over the next two decades, he served in several ships and on shore duty as an inspector of ordnance, while also representing the Navy in rifle competitions. He was Commanding Officer of three destroyers during the 1920s and attended the Naval War College late in that decade. During the 1930s and early 1940s, Lee was several times assigned to the Fleet Training Division, commanded the light cruiser Concord, and served on the staff of Commander, Cruisers, Battle Force. In early 1942, following his promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral, Lee became Assistant Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet. In August 1942, Rear Admiral Lee was sent to the Pacific to command a Battleship Division. Flying his flag in USS Washington (BB-56), he was active through the Guadalcanal Campaign and led his force to victory over a Japanese surface group in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night of 14-15 November 1942. He was later promoted and placed in charge of the Pacific Fleet's fast battleships. In May 1945, he was sent to the Atlantic to command a special unit researching defenses against the Kamikaze threat. While serving in that position on 25 August 1945, Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee died suddenly after suffering a heart attack. Photo #: NH 95009. Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, Jr., USN, portrait photograph, taken circa 1942. From RAdm. Samuel Eliot Morison photographic files. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Bill Gonyo
	31k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	98k	Undated, location unknown.		John Peel/Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	300k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	94k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	134k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	146k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	129k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	213k	Undated, location unknown.		Mike Green
	176k	USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4), at anchor off Istanbul, Turkey on 16 August 1955, during her maiden Sixth Fleet deployment. She was then flagship of Commander, Destroyer Flotilla Six. Note USS Salem (CA-139) anchored further downstream. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 106843.		Robert Hurst
	249k	USS Willis A. Lee aground on 17 March 1956 near Jamestown, Rhode Island.		David Buell
	71k	Anchored in Newport, Rhode Island, 22 June 1957.		Gerd Matthes
	85k	Anchored in Newport, Rhode Island, 22 June 1957.		Gerd Matthes
	59k	Circa 1959, location unknown. Photo from "Our Navy" magazine.		Robert Hurst
	49k	Valetta, Malta circa 1960.		Robert Hurst
	120k	Boston Naval Shipyard, 1961		John Peel
	249k	Boston Naval Shipyard, July 4, 1961		© Richard Leonhardt
	56k	Boston Naval Shipyard, August 1961. DDG-3 John King And DDG-10 Sampson Also In This Image		© Richard Leonhardt
	124k	Originally classed as (DD-929), the Willis A. Lee was reclassed as (DL-4) during construction in the belief that she and her sisters would be "destroyer leaders". Her original armament was deceptive with ASW Weapon As mounted fore and aft and the inclusion of the large bow-mounted sonar dome but her designed role was that of a "task force air defense ship and she carried all the then latest conventional A.A. weapons, gun directors and radar arrays. The photo, taken at Boston Navy Yard, in April, 1966, shows the ship receiving a new rubber sonar dome, which greatly enhanced the scanning sonar performance. The dry-docking problems with the bow mounted domes is apparent.		-
	49k	Circa 1967, location unknown.		Robert Hurst
	152k	Publicity photo of the Lee circa 1967-68.		Dave Mader
	119k	At sea during Med to Newport transit - April 1968.		Dave Mader
	108k	Moored at Destroyer & Submarine Piers in Newport - 1968.		Dave Mader
	36k	Tied at Pier (lower right), Gibraltar, 1968.		Dave Mader
	45k	Hangar Deck Life Ring - Gibraltar, 1968.		Dave Mader
	49k	Port Visit - Sousse, Tunisia - 1968.		Dave Mader
	36k	Anchored in Harbor - Syracusa, Sicily - 1968.		Dave Mader
	54k	Hangar Deck Cookout - 1968 Med Cruise		Dave Mader
	38k	Bridge - Gibraltar - 1968.		Dave Mader
	47k	Fantail Sea Detail - Greece - 1968.		Dave Mader
	34k	Returning to Newport in the Fog - 1968.		Dave Mader
	119k	In the Philadelphia Navy Yard reserve basin, probably the early 1970's.		Ed Zajkowski
	41k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
	90k	Ship's plaque Dave received when he left the ship in February of 1969.		Dave Mader

CDR Frederick Henry Schneider Jr.    Oct 5 1954 - Jul 1955 (Later VADM)

CDR William Harrison Mack    Jul 1955 - Aug 1957

CDR Robert Hurff Armstrong    Aug 1957 - Jan 1959

CDR Robert Good Smith    Jan 1959 - Aug 1960

CDR Albert Wesley Cox    Aug 1960 - Jul 1962

CDR Denis-James Joseph Downey    Jul 1962 - Jul 1964 (Later VADM)

CDR Donald Robert Jex    Jul 1964 - Dec 1965

CDR Peter Joseph Goldman    Dec 1965 - Feb 1968

CDR William Joseph Moredock    Feb 1968 - Oct 1969

LCDR David Winston Moore    Oct 1969 - Dec 19 1969