replacing USS Ranger in the Operation Desert Storm. Later in 1993, the most efficient aircraft carrier in the US Navy was deployed to support the Operation Southern Watch in the Arabian Gulf. On November 1995, Nimitz was assigned to cruise through the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian...
During the Cuban crisis of October 1962 she escorted Ranger (CVA-61). East coast operations and training filled 1963. Deployed to the 7th Fleet 13 March 1964 she performed escort duty off Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident before returning to Long Beach 2 October. Sailing ...
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Long hours were spent on station plane-guarding for attack carriers Ranger (CVA 61) and Hancock (CVA-19). As the Vietnam conflict became "hot" in late January she served as one of the escorts for an amphibious task group in the vicinity of Da Nang South Vietnam. Long stretches at sea...
USS Sproston (DD-577) was a Fletcher-class destroyer. She was the second ship named for Admiral John G. Sproston, an officer in the United States Navy during the Civil War. Sproston was laid down on 1 April 1942 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ora
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Wallace L. Lind earned four battle stars for World War II service four for service in the Korean conflict and three for her Vietnam service. [Note: The above USS WALLACE L. LIND (DD-703) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS WALLACE L. LIND (DD-70...
five of which took her in to the Vietnamese war zone. In 1967 EDSON was hit by North Vietnamese shore artillery. After the war USS EDSON continued the West Coast "DD" routine of "West Pacs" alternating with state side maintenance and training. USS EDSON served her country for 30 years...