Ships
- USS Crossbill (AMc-9) Lieutenant (junior grade), from 28 July 1944 · The DANFS officer roster names no relief · She was placed out of service on 15 January 1946
Robert C. Johnson, a lieutenant (junior grade) in the Naval Reserve, is the last name in the officer roster of the coastal minesweeper Crossbill. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry, by Thomas Sheppard and dated 7 September 2017, gives him as Lt. (j.g.) Robert C. Johnson, USNR, from 28 July 1944. The roster gives no relief. She was placed out of service on 15 January 1946. That is the ship's date, not a date NavSource assigns to him. He is the officer of record through the end of the war and through the idle months that followed it, on the evidence of there being no later name.
Birth, home, and family were not in the entry. The initial C. is all the entry gives for a middle name.
No academy class and no earlier ship appear on the line. He followed Ensign William T. Reilly.
From 28 July 1944 the ship continued the Hawaiian routine already described for the whole war: Pearl Harbor, Bishops Point, Honolulu, and Port Allen on Kauai. The entry does not break that routine out by officer. Two later dates fall inside the span before she left service. On 1 September 1945 Honolulu police came aboard with a warrant for one of the crew on a charge of burglary. The entry does not name the sailor and does not name the officer in charge that day. Her last deck-log entry is dated 30 September 1945. She then sat idle at Pearl Harbor until she was placed out of service on 15 January 1946, struck on 7 February 1946, and transferred to the Maritime Commission on 25 March 1947. None of those sentences says that Johnson was still aboard, or that he had already left. They say only that no other officer is listed.
No later command, promotion, or date of death was found. Other officers named Johnson appear in Navy records of this war. Nothing in this entry ties him to any of them.