Peter K. Fitzwilliam
CMDR USN
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CDR Fitzwilliam was
Executive Officer USS KAWISHIWI
from
December, 1971 to October, 1973.
During that time KAWISHIWI conducted a
nine-month
WestPac
deployment in 1972 and started another in the fall of 1973.
Operations on deployment primarily involved
supporting aircraft carriers and destroyers who were waging war off the
coast
of Vietnam. The ship operated mostly out of Subic Bay, in
the Philippines.
Commanding Officers during CDR
Fitzwilliam’s tour on
board
were Captains O. J. Bilderback and Nick Nicholson.
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In
October, 1973, with the ship in Subic Bay for an upkeep period, CDR
Fitzwilliam was relieved as EXEC by
CDR Joe Rice. CDR Fitzwilliam went on to
relieve as Commanding Officer USS
MISPILLION (AO-106). Subsequently he
commanded USS HALEAKALA (AE-25)
and USS SEATTLE (AOE-03). Captain Fitzwilliam retired from the Navy
whole serving
at
the Pentagon in 1985, and took up residence in Fairfax, Virgin
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