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Vietnam Wespac Cruise -1967 |
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1966-67 Cruise Book
(.pdf) from John Gerten.
(11-7-2015) Added 1966-67 Slide Show from John Gerten. (11-7-2015) Photo Selection of 67 Cruise from Joseph Weidlich Got in the photos today [1967, maybe some from 1968] on CD for your consideration for posting on the Stoddard website. There is a photo of the 566 in port at San Francisco [at the Embarcadero]. I assume that this was the midshipman's cruise. I believe that that was the only time we docked in SFO in the 2+ years I was aboard, not more than one day. As I recall we had previously been in Hawaii, then Everett, WA, as I remember I went to Seattle for a day's outing [rained, of course]. There are a few shots of an unrep with the Turner Joy; also a couple of helicopter unreps as well. There are three shots in Sasebo drydock after our 3-17 hit. I distinctly remember being on mid-rats duty in a driving, cold rain with no ammunition in my "piece". So much for repelling borders! |
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| A chopper hovering. We were receiving our mail. | DSL | ||
| The gunner mates were familiarizing the repel borders crew with the M-1s (45s). I think some of them missed the ocean. Coming into Yokouska , Japan and getting ready for sea detail. The little fat guy is an Apache Indian, my drinking buddy. Did you ever try to out drink an Indian?
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| On our way to Tonkin Gulf ( Nam ). Some of these swells were 30 ft and I think our decks were awash about 75 percent of the time. Watch the other side. We almost lost a man. I went out to save him and handed my camera to a guy and he took a picture of his own foot. The kid had to save his hat (mess cook). He did lose the shit can though.
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| USS Kittyhawk and oiler? Men going on watch - only an officer can have dumb luck and not get wet. |
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| Plane guard in Tonkin Gulf . Weather plane with the dish on top. They send junks out to spy on us so the choppers hover over them and rip their sails off. |
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| Transferring personnel. A heavy
cruiser, not sure which one. (maybe
USS
Canberra (CAG 2) |
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| Shore bombing - this is when we took a hit. We stuck our necks out and damn near got it lopped off. Also, we were at General Quarters. The shell hit us in lug berthing. |
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The Captain and XO observe the repairing of the hole before going into Japan and getting it fixed. |
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The Cruiser Long Beach |
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Grab-assing in haircut line. |
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| This roll of film was on the end of the cruise. Midway Island and the goonie birds. The baby and the goonie dance. They crash land. The water there is clear.
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| The guy got his finger cut off. I had to repair his mess and dig his finger out of a bolt hole. |
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| The Kittyhawk had bad fuel combustion. Refueling. Plane on elevator hanger deck, Looking through.
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| Water taxi in Hong Kong harbor. Junks all have engines
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| Going on a mission (the ship’s name I forgot). Now we are going through some VC gun boats. We tried to draw their fire but they would not shoot at us. Each boat carries a gun or guns of some kind and these boats are the ones that raised hell with our river boats. The ship and these boats were out of the war zone so we could not shoot - it would not be fair
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| Sub we tried to get a high line over to, but it parted, too rough. Seems like we were always refueling. | DSL |
Cruisebook pictures from Robert Butler |
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