1966. After visiting Hawaii Japan and the Philippines Gurke was stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin late in June for search and rescue duty. On 1 July three North Vietnamese PT boats were detected 11 miles away from Gurke and three sister destroyers and closing at high speed. Fighter aircraft ...
Arriving Pearl Harbor 17 September 1943 she got underway 29 September escorting aircraft carriers toward Wake Island for the heavy air attacks 6 October and returned to Pearl Harbor 11 October 1943. Mid-October found Kidd underway with a formidable task force to strike Rabaul and to support the...
Canberra joined with the Enterprise (CV-6) task group for fighter sweeps against Truk, then bombarded Satawan, rejoining the carriers for further strikes on Truk (29 April-1 May). After a raid against Marcus and Wake Islands in May 1944, Canberra sailed from Majuro 6 June to participate...