Blakely (FF 1072) - Naval Cruise Book

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t -l On a cold, blustery day in January 1981, USS BLAKELY sailed from her homeport of Charleston, South Carolina and began what was to be a five month deployment. Under the operational command of Commander Middle East Force, BLAKELY turned in a consistently superior performance conducting surveillance operations in the Persian Gulf. What follows in these pages is a pictorial history of the deployment . . .

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