Biddle (DLG 34) - Naval Cruise Book

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il 2 Yankee Station USS FLOYD B. PARKS, QDD USS KITTY HAWK fCVA 635 8443 follows in BlDDLE's wake makes speed for flight opera- heading for UNREPrendezvous tions. A jet exhaust can be seen overhead The whaleboat crew waits for the davits to be lowered Motor Whale boat ap proaohes the ship

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K3OhSlLlHgI Ships and boats crowd the harbgr The Cutler Campbell in 2 nest of naval BIDDLE makes a mooring among the The ships are all sizes- small medium Ships merchant ships and large ' ' - Viet Nam - China Coast A battle scarred North Vietnamese An all purpose South Vietnamese boat A ubiquitous junk -- for centuries used coast craft out of action in Da Nang -- used for fishing or fighting fOr family, fish, contraband Or Carg0

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Tonkin Gulf on PIRAZ Station USS LONG BEACH QCLG QNJ 9 slips through the mist to relieve BIDDLE at the PIRAZ buoy. USS CHICAGO QCG lj was the first to appear out of the mist to relieve BIDDLE of the PIRAZ