USS SLC...Officer...Charles H. Maddox, Commander

Charles H. Maddox passed away September 1964

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My grandfather is sitting next to Captain Lewis Coxe, Commanding Officer in this 1933 group picture of officers. They are dressed in their swords and gloves.

My grandfather was also a good friend of Capt. Ellis M. Zacharias, from the Washington days when he headed the British Empire Section for the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, and Zacharias headed the Far East Section. Their paths crossed many times, as after this 1933 photo my grandfather commanded the cruiser USS Raleigh in the 1938 Atlantic, then Summer 1941 commanded the destroyer USS Porter and Destroyer Squadron 5 out of Pearl Harbor - before 7 December 1941.

Pam Ribbey