Walter Raymond Baranger Born in Los Angeles in 1917, Walt grew up in Berkeley and La Verne, Calif. Please submit biographies to Walter Baranger Jr. Still, Chief Water Tender Elmer Craddick managed to serve aboard Worden the entire 7 years, 11 months and 29 days from commissioning in 1935 to Amchitka in 1943, a unique achievement. On the day it sank, Worden had a crew of 240 that included 39 (about 15%) who had been on board less than 100 days more tellingly, half of the crew had been aboard less than a year. In March 1942 and again in October 1942, many of Worden’s Pearl Harbor veterans were transferred elsewhere and replaced mainly with newly graduated boot camp recruits. On 10 December 1941 the crew numbered 220 officers and enlisted men, many of them battleship veterans who were new to life aboard destroyers. In the week immediately after the Pearl Harbor raid, Worden added nearly 50 crew members by supplementing its roster from ships that had been sunk during the attack, primarily the bombed and torpedoed battleship West Virginia, the capsized battleship Oklahoma and the gutted Mahan-class destroyer Downes. On 6 December 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor, Worden had a crew of 176 out of its normal compliment of 186, but the low turnover meant that only one enlisted man had been aboard less than 100 days. The pre-war crew from 15 January 1935 to 7 December 1941 was an experienced ship’s company that was almost devoid of reservists and in some cases included a few senior petty officers who had spent more than five years on board, a very long time by modern Navy standards. Worden’s crew evolution can be thought of as having three phases: Pre-war, the immediate Pearl Harbor aftermath and the final year.
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