Curtis E. Drury

Biography

1942-1945; 1946

Tufts E1945 High School, Newton, MA

1942 enrolled in the Program, admitted to NROTC unit
1943 NROTC unit was called into active duty as part of the national V-12 training program; appointed Company Commander

Charlotte E. Craig, February 25, 1945; three day honeymoon in Boston

March - April 1945 battleship turret course the Ordnance and Gunnery School in Washington, DC

April 1945 ordered to USS Indiana (BB 58) with the third fleet in the Western Pacific

Assigned to turret 3 as Junior Turret Officer and Junior Officer of the deck
Bombardment of Okinawa, Japan, and Tokyo Bay
Additional Training in San-Francisco; qualified as 16-inch Turret /Division Officer/ OOD in port and underway
March 1946 released to inactive duty; remained in the Naval Reserve on inactive status until 1947 when reactivated

1947 Training Officer in at Portland, ME; promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade in USNR
1947 Industrial Engineer with the Saco-Lowell shops

1950 ordered to USS New Jersey (BB 62); assigned as #1 Turret Officer / OOD/ First Division Officer and promoted to Lieutenant
Provided "artillery support" for the troops ashore and bombardment anything else within the range of 45,000 yards (23 miles)

Provided air defense for the 7th Fleet
Fired from #1 Turret over 1700 rounds of 16-inch armor piercing (2700 lbs each), high capacity (1950 lbs) shells and a total of approximately 270 tons of powder
1951 ship relieved from Korean duty by USS Wisconsin (BB 63) and headed back to Norfolk, VA
1952 received order to USS Mississippi as First Lieutenant, Security and Division Officer and in seven months ordered to inactive duty until retirement in 1958
1952 employed at Sales and Engineering Department at Improved Machinery in Nashua, NH