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USS BAYFIELD WESTPAC 1965 DEPARTED LONG BEACH, CALIF. PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII BUCKNER BAY, OKINAWA SASEBO, JAPAN DANANG, VIETNAM SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES BUCKNER BAY, OKINAWA DANANG, VIETNAM SASEBO, JAPAN YOKOSUKA, JAPAN NUMAZU, JAPAN BUCKNER BAY, OKINAWA BUCKNER BAY, OKINAWA NAHA, OKINAWA CHU LAI, VIETNAM BAIE DE MY HAN, VIETNAM CHU LAI, VIETNAM SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES DANANG, VIETNAM CHU LAI, VIETNAM CHU LAI, VIETNAM BAIE DE MY HAN, VIETNAM CHU LAI, VIETNAM SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES INCHON, KOREA PUSAN, KOREA QUI NHON, VIETNAM SUBIC BAY, PHILIPPINES HONG KONG, B. C. C. YOKOSUKA, JAPAN PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII ENTERED LONG BEACH, CALIF. 27 Appr. 1965 5 MAY 8 MAY 22 MAY 22 MAY 24 MAY 26 MAY 1 JUN 11 JUN 13 JUN 25 JUN 28 JUN 1 JUL 7 JUL 11 JUL 15 JUL 22 JUL 24 JUL 26 JUL 27 JUL 28 JUL 1 AUG 2 AUG 6 AUG 9 AUG 9 AUG 9 AUG 14 AUG 18 AUG 18 AUG 24 AUG 24 AUG 24 AUG 26 AUG 29 AUG 31 AUG 1 SEPT 1 SEPT 1 SEPT 2 SEPT 7 SEPT 7 SEPT 10 SEPT 10 SEPT 11 SEPT 13 SEPT 29 SEPT 4 OCT 13 OCT 15 OCT 17 OCT 22 OCT 26 OCT 29 OCT 30 OCT 1 NOV 6 NOV 11 NOV 15 NOV 24 NOV 26 NOV 3 DEC
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THE SHIP Since the first days of American fighting ships the United States Navy has been a proud and powerful force in the fight to keep the world free. The American Navy is made up of many different types of fighting forces. One of the most prominent of these forces since its beginning in 1942 has been the Naval Amphibious Force which has grown to become the most powerful Amphibious Force in the world today. The BAYFIELD is a proud representative of this unrivaled American Force. No single ship today more accurately tells the story of American amphibious operations than does the BAYFIELD. Built in San Francisco in 1943 as the merchant ship. Sea Bass, she was promptly converted to an APA (Attack Transport) in time to participate in the Normandy Invasion as the Flag Ship at Utah Beach. Here the BAYFIELD first tested her double func- tion (Flag Ship and Attack Transport) which she continues to perform today. As the Utah Flag Ship, the BAYFIELD was the nerve center of that historical assault and in addition provided the boats and specially trained coxswains needed to land the troops and cargo which she carried within her hull. The invasion took place in the heaviest storm to sweep the English Channel since 1924. Lowering the boats from the ship and maneuvering in the heavy surf taxed every crew member ' s training and set a precedent for the Amphibious Force. From the waters of the English Channel the BAYFIELD, then enjoying the nickname of the Mighty B, steamed south into the Mediterranean to take part in the Invasion of Southern France. With her valuable and experienced crew the BAYFIELD was then ordered from the Mediterranean to the Pacific where Amphibious Warfare was then the primary concern. Here in the last year of the war she took part in the assaults at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, a war record of which the BAYFIELD shall always be proud. V-J Day set the BAYFIELD to work carrying out Operation Magic Carpet bringing war-weary American Soldiers and Marines back to the United States. This was her first peacetime mission and a most happy one. In the fall of 1949 during the turbulent Chinese Civil War the BAYFIELD, carrying units of the United States 9th Marines steamed the Chinese Coast ready to evacuate American Nationals or to intervene if directed. As the fighting ceased, the BAYFIELD an- chored in Shanghai to negotiate with the Communists for an American Naval Base at Shanghai. As part of the terms for the talks the BAYFIELD ' S decks were taken over by Communist Chinese. With the failure of the negotiations the BAYFIELD steamed from Shanghai, the last American Ship to see that harbor.
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