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'. 1 - . . fy- ,e - - - - 5 ,- 1 .. - - - 4-' .-. , 1 .. W'f1i'i--' iff-Eff . lfifl? 'EMZQ-5 15.1.73 A D THE SHIP THAT GOT US THERE USS ALAMO QLSD-331 was -built by lngalls Shipbuild- ing Corporation of Pascagoula, Mississippi. The keel was laid on 11 October 1954- and launching was on 20 January 1956. After commissioning on 25-August 1956, she sailed to Galveston, Texas on a goodwill cruise and then to Nor- folk to be loaded and outfitted. ALAMO arrived in San Diego on 13 October 1956 and joined the Amphibious Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. A On her first Western Pacific cruise in 1957, ALAMO participated in the Bikini atomic tests before going on to Yokohama, Japan. Her second and third cruises, in 1958 and 1959 added new names to a growing list of ports visit- ed. In 1960 she underwent overhaul at Todd Shipyard in Seattle, Washington which was followed by training and operations off the West Coast. On her fourth WESTPAC cruise in 1961, she became a part of the Amphibious Ready Group. During her fifth trip to WESTPAC, which began in Oc- tober of 1962, ALAMO was diverted to Guam with emer- gency relief supplies to that typhoon-stricken island. Later that same year she provided emergency food relief to the flood-stricken island of 'Mindanao in the Philippines. ln 1963 ALAMO entered Bethlehem Steel Corporation Shipyard in Long Beach for her second major overhaul. The spring of 1964 again found her on a relief mission, this time to earthquake ravaged Kodiak, -Alaska. ln June of that year she departed on her ,sixth trip to the Western Pa- cific. lt was on this cruise that she earned her first medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary for Viet Nam operations. During the summer of 1965 ALAMO was chosen twice to make special lifts to WESTPAC. lt was during the sec- ond of these that she made her first combat landing at Qui Nhon, Viet Nam. ALAMO holds the Squadron Battle Efficiency Award for the third consecutive time and proudly wears awards for excellence in Communications, Operations, Engineer- ing, and Amphibious Warfare. ' --1-:T iw 'sf' V ., , -3.1 'EES .559 ,sg NF! ' in D --as 1- .1 ?5149i'n?'?2,s v , . if :HJR 716, v. - - L A Q ' s. i J., , i 'f' A . E . xx ' i 'Z . y .. .Q . M I -i :n H i .. l T. T. nf ' x I7 x.
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We brought some causeways for use in an exercise and waited for days till the Korean Navy was through with them. Some of us took a trek to an old temple built in the 6th century and We all amused the local residents with a beach party, playing football and pol- ishing off the San Miguel left over from the PI.
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