We are seeking information on the USS Hazelwood and her crews. Files and photos may be E-mailed to us and we will incorporate them into these pages.

8/31/07:

I’ll try to get pictures together later. In photo 008, the man farthest to the right sitting, curly blond hair is my Father Harlan M. Gordon! I have pictures that he gave me and that is one of them.

I will send more as soon as I get them all together.

Steve Gordon

11/29/06:

I found your site and wanted to tell you my dad James W. Lindsay served aboard the Hazelwood (DD 531) during WWII.

He was fire control from a platform on the foreward stack and was seriously wounded in the Kamikaze attack. His position was the first hit by the plane and he was knocked to the deck just beside the torpedos. Very few men survived in the foreward section and dispite all the troubles his injuries caused him he considered himself to be lucky.

For the rest of his life he suffered from the effects of his injuries. I once asked him, when I was a little boy why the palms of his hands were so smooth. The skin was burned off when he grabbed hot metal trying to drag himself away from the fire caused by the plane exploding.

If there is anything else you would like to know just let me know.

Bryant Lindsay
Powder Springs GA
YHC_alum@bellsouth.net

Subject: USS Hazelwood
Date: 11/28/05
From: Fred Dees

Mark

I was a GM2 on the USS Hazelwood DD531 from 1951 to 1955. We recommissioned her in late 1951 in San Diego and then was assigned to our homeport, Newport, R I , for the remainder of my tour. We did our shake down in San Diego, made several trips to Gitmo, Korea during the talks, and then back by way of the Med. So we got a round-the-world cruise just for being cold for six months. I have some pictures of her at sea and in port. I also have a list of the crew and their costumes for crossing the Equator in 1953 or 1954. I say I have them but that doesn't mean I know where they are but will look for them if you can use them.

Subject: USS Hazelwood
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004
From: Carol Gertner

Greetings,

In surfing the web, I recently came across your site and your page for the USS Hazelwood. I knew my friends husband had served on this ship during WWII. His name is Paul Uvanitte and I am writing this note on behalf of him. He was the individual responsible for removing the black flag from the ship, helping to put out the fires and repairing it enough so that they could get it back to Honolulu. He was awarded the American Area Ribbon, Asiatic Pacific Ribbon (12 stars) and Philippine Liberation Ribbon (2 stars).

If you are interested in his story, or know a site that would be, please email me at cgert38919@aol.com

Thank you,

Carol Gertner