Buchanan (DDG 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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Upon departure from San Diego, vve set sail for Pearl Harbor where we had a short 3 day stay. While in Pearl Harbor, we witnessed the filming of the movie Tora, Tora by Twentieth Century Fox. We participated in USS BON HOlVllVlE RlCHARD's lCVA-31l Competitive Exercise and fired both a torpedo and an ASROC rocket successfully. i . ' ,fl s-L 5

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I I I II 1. A leisurely trip across the Pacific I I I I I I I I I t.4f f--f V I y ,f 3 i ,, .ll After a brief stop at Yokosuka, Japan vve proceeded to Yankee Station f . rw ' ' I I Carrier OPS while alongside Our Russian friend or duty. Barely inside the Vietnam Surveillance area, vve received vvord that a Navy EC-121 had been shot dovvn in international waters off the coast of Korea. We immediately reversed course to join the largest task force assembled since the Korean War, Task Force 71. Such an assembly was of extreme interest to some people and vve kept a close vvatch on a Russian destroyer sent to keep track of us. I 12