Eversole (DD 789) - Naval Cruise Book

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When you get really good, you do it this way. Our first UNREP with an oiler had rather dis- astrous results. - 6$ ■4 ' ••„ -j i. MWSNs. 4 h, -- r SSE! •v, B u . JSi Rf . J 3V ■ H B m f: ,rVt;, )v r ' i ' k. ., ill i; ;-i .i A, parted fuel rig spewed black oil as high up as the port wing. ::;:

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Each round of ammunition is handled seven times by the time THE USS Pyro proclaims our status as we come the retrograde is returned. alongside. ■ . WURE M0.100 ALCCS nr j f JIB v ' 3 i : ' VHii C I r A helo from the USS Mars brings stores while ammo is transferred from an AE alongside. People get replenished too.

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Naval Gunfire Support : W Two guns, one salvo, Plot shoot!! That was the name of the game during this deploy- ment. Seventeen thousand and sixty rounds to be exact. From the support of South Vietnamese ground forces below the DMZ to nighttime strikes against North Viet- namese coastal defense sites, Eversole ' s guns were in ac- tion twenty four hours a day seven days a week. The ac- curacy and reliability of Eversole ' s guns was subject for comment by air and ground spotters and other ships in company. Night firing was a lullaby to the men of Eversole.