'31-Knot' Burke

In June 1954 I was beginning my first-class year as an NROTC midshipman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For our summer cruise I was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, with orders to report to the USS Macon (CA-132), little knowing that she carried the flag of Cruiser Division 6 and Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke as COMCRUDIV 6. 

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