Montrose (APA 212) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS MONTROSE WESTERN PACIFIC DEPLOYMENT MONTROSE left San Diego with Amphibious Squadron FIVE on the 23rd of August of last year. Because her troops and combat cargo were badly needed overseas, she sailed directly to Okinawa via the Great Circle Route arriving on the 12th of September. After offloading in Okinawa, MONTROSE visited Sasebo, Japan for an upkeep period and then sailed to Subic Bay, Philippines to become part of the Seventh Fleet Amphibious Ready Group. After several weeks of intensive training in Subic Bay, MONTROSE and the rest of the ready group sailed for Vietnam and combat operations. During the next four months, MONTROSE participated in a number of amphibious operations against the Viet Cong including several Dagger Thrust Operations, Operation Blue Marlin, Operation Harvest Moon, and Operation Double Eagle. These operations, all highly successful, did much to convince the Viet Cong that they could never be safe from attack from the sea. 4t

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BACK ROW Forbes Gorman Haskamp Thamm Nobiletti Brown Chief Hanson Mr. Seaman FRONT ROW Stiles Hahn Latwis Sherry XO DIVISION BACK ROW Mr. Wilson Miller Chambers Coultress Bullens Chief Jones FRONT ROW Salas Hawkins Ramirez NAVIGATION DEPARTMENT BACK ROW Louis Hickethier Cobb Stanley FRONT ROW Reed Frazier Valdez Eberhardt 1ST DIVISION BACK ROW Pyles Drewek Evans Bell Alanzo Suter Mr. Goss FRONT ROW McRoberts Spaulding Willdns McDonald Monk HoUis Sanchez 2ND DIVISION BACK ROW Whittington Reich Barbarito Whiteside Jacka Gibson Wilson Terracino Boyer Nesmith Mr, Leverenz FRONT ROW Russell Johnson Hogan Romero Birchard Lamond Bray Bordelon 3RD DIVISION BACK ROW Mr. Morgan Yates Edwards Rogers Raistrick Kozlowski Schumacher FRONT ROW Hart Bohonn Smith Anderson Mastropasqua Wright 4TH DIVISION BACK ROW Puckett Maynard Barnowsky Hart FRONT ROW Mr. Johnston Hartman Hammett Daugherty Ewing Valisalo Villanueva SIDE CLEANERS BACK ROW Rhodelander Parks Voelker Redding FRONT ROW Chief Fant Schulman Stevens Hollo way 51 S4 DIVISION BACK ROW Salmon King Mr. Pan- Brent Cue Chief Maynard FRONT ROW Hall Tatum Fritz 52 DI TSION BACK ROW Bertucci Baker Schneider Scherer Boykin Smith FRONT ROW Morgan Stewart Ellington Claton S3 DIVISION BACK ROW Phillips Covington Cheever Ferguson FRONT ROW Mr. Syrko Lopez Vallerga McDonald Winget Armendariz S5 DIVISION BACK ROW Reyes, J. Malig Ayson Santiago Arabe Reyes, F. Chief Rosete FRONT ROW Preston Morris Medina De Los Santos Francisco MESS MEN BACK ROW Latwis Yanka McGuire Ross Wilmot FRONT ROW Villegas Arterbury Sickles Kanatobi

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GATOR VITAL STATISTICS (1) 22,530 Miles steamed. (2) 5632 Total personnel transported. (3) 3571 Total personnel landed administratively. (4) 20t)l Total personnel landed under combat conditions. (5) 317.4 Tons of cargo transported. (b) 273 Short tons of cargo landed administratively. (7) 44.4 Short tons of cargo landed under combat conditions. (8) 70 Days spent in combat zone. (9) 55 Days spent in combat operations. (10) 65 Days qualified hostile fire pay. (11) 288 Vehicles transported. (12) 288 Vehicles landed administratively. (13) 3 Navy Commendation Medals given. (14) 18 CINPACFLT Letters of Commendation given. (15) 4 Secretary of the Navy Achievement Awards were authorized. (16) 91 Teeth pulled. (17) 1550 Teeth filled. (18) 4213 Requisition used total money value of $76,510.54.