Ships
- USS Cassin Young (DD-793) Captain from 31 December 1943
Commander E. T. Schrieber, Earl Tobias Schrieber, was a United States Navy officer from Elk County, Pennsylvania. He grew up working on his father's farm and remained an avid hunter and fisherman. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929. On 31 December 1943 he took command of the new destroyer Cassin Young as her first captain, with the rank of commander.
Cassin Young (DD-793) was a Fletcher-class destroyer built by Bethlehem Steel at San Pedro, California. The ship had been launched on 12 September 1943, sponsored by the widow of Captain Cassin Young, the officer for whom she was named. Young had been killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. Schrieber's crew spent the opening months of 1944 working the ship up. She reached Pearl Harbor on 19 March 1944, finished training there, and then steamed to Manus in the Admiralty Islands.
At Manus she joined Task Force 58, the fast carrier striking force. On 28 April 1944 the force sortied against Japanese bases at Truk, Woleai, Satawan, and Ponape. Cassin Young served as a picket, watching for a counterattack while the carriers struck. She later returned by way of Majuro to Pearl Harbor for more training. In June she reported at Eniwetok and screened escort carriers covering the assault on Saipan. Schrieber also took the ship through the wider Marianas operations against Tinian, Rota, and Guam.
That autumn Cassin Young stayed with the fast carriers, the same force known as Task Force 38 when the fleet command changed, and took part in the air battle off Formosa. Schrieber's last action in the ship was the Battle of Leyte Gulf. On 24 October 1944 the light carrier Princeton was bombed and lost, and Cassin Young helped recover sailors from the water. His tour as commanding officer ended on 31 October 1944.
Later in his career he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He retired as a rear admiral from a post at the Pentagon. In retirement he lived in Roxbury, New York, with his wife, Winifred Hofner.