Ships
- USS Farragut (DD-348) Captain, 25 August 1942 – 21 June 1943
Henry Dirk Rozendal, of Leavenworth, Kansas, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926 and served as a line officer in the United States Navy. In the summer of 1942 he was a lieutenant commander, and the seagoing command he then received was a destroyer already at work in the South Pacific.
On 25 August 1942 Rozendal became commanding officer of Farragut (DD-348), relieving George Porter Hunter. Through the rest of that year the ship patrolled off Guadalcanal and escorted convoys from Australia, keeping men and supplies moving along the sea lanes into the Solomon Islands.
He was promoted to commander in January 1943 while he still had Farragut. On 27 January the destroyer arrived at Pearl Harbor for an overhaul, and the crew trained afterward on the West Coast. She reached Adak, Alaska, on 16 April 1943 and began patrols in Aleutian waters as American forces prepared the assault on Attu.
In the Attu area Rozendal took Farragut into an attack on a submarine, working with another vessel and a Navy patrol plane. Depth charges brought the submarine to the surface, and gunfire probably destroyed her. For his service in command of the ship in that campaign he received the Legion of Merit.
Rozendal turned Farragut over to Edward Franklin Ferguson on 21 June 1943. He later returned to northern waters as a captain. From 9 August 1944 to 3 June 1945 he commanded a destroyer division in the northern Pacific, and for that duty he received a Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit.