Four Decades Ago...                                                                                                                          (click on photos to enlarge)
        From deck of our sister ship - USS Horne DLG 30  (early 1970)  Courtesy of Ed Scribner who served aboard the Horne during this WestPac deployment

Yokusuka - Japan

Yokusuka - Japan

Subic Bay  - Philippines

  

        From deck of our first "shotgun" DD escort in Tonkin Gulf  - USS Rich DD 820  (July 1968)  - Courtesy Steve Henry (then Ensign) on the Rich.

 

 
 

Da Nang, Viet-Nam   (or Subic Bay, PI*) 

 
    * Location is unconfirmed but the landfall in the background and ship itinerary of July 1968 would mean this photo was taken either at the port of Da Nang,  where Sterett stopped for a briefing.  or at an earlier stop at Subic Bay, PI.