From: "Claire L. Grubbs" <csi@inreach.com>
To: "Robb R Donaldson" <robbd@primenet.com>
Subject: USS CHICAGO (CA29)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 09:21:45 -0800
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Thanks for the history of the USS CHICAGO that was in the Bulletin (Fall
1999).  My husband, Rufe Logan Grubbs, served aboard her from February 1940
until December 1942.  I have a photo which is possibly the engine room crew
with last name IDs on back of photo. also his service record which records
the dates of his various assignments.  When he was transferred from the
CHICAGO it was to attend diesel school on the East Coast.    

He had enlisted in the Navy in December 1935 and retired in August 1955 as
an ENC. and then 1965 from the Fleet Reserve.  He died in June 1990.

I have read only one other account of the ships leaving Pearl on December
5, which happened to be my husband's birthday so it was a date he
remembered,not just for his birthday.

It was rather coincidental that I grew up in Chicago and we met in Long
Beach, California where I was stationed at the Long Beach Naval Hospital as
a WAVE PhM.

Again, thank you for the history of this great ship.

Claire L. Grubbs