Kidd (DDG 993) - Naval Cruise Book

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j Q 1 , t 'lillli gi ,t U.S., KU ITI EXPLOSIV EXPERTS EXAMIN ANKER HIT BY M SSILE Iiv RICHAHID PYLIQ ASSOC'IA'l'EID PRESS Manama, Bahrain ----- l'.S. and Kuwaiti explo- sives experts poked through wreckage on a IIS.- flagged tanker Saturday trying to determined what weapon Iran fired in its boldest strike against the IHS. presence in the Persian Gulf. I,'.S. officials have said they believe the projec- tile was a f'hinese-made Silkworm fired from about 50 miles away in Iran-held territory on Iraq's Faw peninsula. But a US. military source said other possibili- ties are being investigated. The Friday attack blinded the American cap- tain, John Hunt. and injured 17 others, medical sources in Kuwait said. The explosion shattered the wheelhouse and crew quarters of the Sea Isle City. A doctor at Ku- wait's Addan hospital, Dawoud al-Halabi, was quoted by the English-language rll'EifJ7Il'I716S as say- ing all IU of those still hospitalized were in stable condition. The ship's Filipino helmsman, who asked to be identified only as Alex, said the 20-foot-long projectile looked like an oxygen tank, smoking at the rear as it skimmed past two other ships and blasted into the SEA ISLE CITY. Kuwait's government has begun a diplomatic campaign among Arab governments to gain sup- port to condemn Iranian acts of aggression. Meanwhile. the IIS. delivered to Iranian offi- cials in Oman the four wounded Iranians and the bodies of two others recovered after a clash Oct. 8 in the Persian Clulf, Crowds chanting Down with the If,S.f welcomed them to Tehran, Iran's capital, the official Iranian news agency reported. The Iranians were rescued by American forces after US. helicopter gunships attached their speed- boats. sinking one and disabling two others. Iraq, meanwhile, said its warplanes attacked a large maritime target - usually meaning a tanker --- off Iran's coast Saturday. The attack, reported by the official Iraqi News Agency, could not be indepen- dently confirmed. In another development Saturday, Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said several civilians were wounded when Iraqi warplanes bombed three villages near a town on the Iran-Iraq border in the Kurdistan region. It said Iranian anti-aircraft fire shot down one plane and another jet was downed Friday' over the southern gulf. I The official Iraqi News Agency denied Iraqi war- planes raided civilian areas. It said one Iraqi jet was shot down and crashed in Iranian territory. .1-1 EQ. ,, Fi +I' F? 1 FC2 ' Pops Folrnsbee conq e if i feor of heights He was no OMIYW ing 2 5M1SchwoIlkeeping05M9f oot for sorfoce contacts 3 TNIOGCU' A FCC Scott keeps the SPQ-9 Oftll' ' the hord woy 5 STG3 Ambroselllflf Control 6 LT MorshollotShtOSV!W' Coordrrioror 7 SN Dutte'Y OMLIW show off their mine

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y AVY ARMAD FIRED 1,065 SHELLS Iranians on tower got 20 minutes' warning to leave COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS WASHINGTON -- As soon as President Reagan chose the target. Saturday night. the Navy assembled a small but powerful armada and prepared to train its weapons on an armed Iranian oil platform in the Persian Gulf. Monday, four destroyers pounded the twin-towered platform with 1,065 rounds of 5-inch shells. Officials said Reagan selected the plat- form, sitting in international waters, from a list of targets presented to him hy the Penta- gon. The platform - equipped with radars, 25mm anti-aircraft guns and 50-caliber ma- chine guns -- was not on the front page of the list, officials said. but Reagan chose it to send Iran a message. Apparently to emphasize that Iranian weapons -- and not Iranians -- were marked for retribution, the US. force warned people seen on the derrick 20 minutes before the at- tack to get away. The Navy broadcast on distress frequen- cies. hailing the rig by name: Rashadat. Rashadat, this is the US. Navy. We will com- -lti mence firing on your position at 1400 hours t2 p.m. in the areal. You have 20 minutes to evacuate the platform. Pentagon officials said three Navy destroyers - the HOEL, LEFTWICH and the YOUNG - were moved Sunday to join the destroyer Kidd in firing posi- tion, about 6 miles away from the rig. Officials said the four American des- troyers were together by 2 a.m. EDT Mon- day to the southeast of the platform, about 90 miles northeast of the Qatar coast on the western shore of the gulf. The four ships then moved toward Rashadat and arrived at the rig about a half hour before the 85-minute bombardment began at 7 a.m. EDT. The KIDD, LEFTWICH and YOUNG, equipped with the Navy's new- est 5-inch guns, blasted up to 20 rounds per minute per ship as six sailors in each ves- sel's loading room restocked the 22-ton guns' ammunition drums. The HOEL, equipped with an older 5- inch model weighing 64 tons, also had I3- man crews reloading 141-pound rounds into the ammo drums, defense officials said. It was like the scene in Bonnie and