Neosho (AO 143) - Naval Cruise Book

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From: USS NEOSHO Mediterranean Cruise Book Staff To: Distribution List CAll readersb Subj: The '76 - '77 USS NEOSHO MED CRUISE BOOK Encl: CD Pictures, words, and description of events 1. The following is a list of what is inside this book: 'INSIDE NEOSHO 64 - USO Tfolbute 65 + Tnadtttonn 5 Events 68 1- Holtdagn 72 - Neoeho Cnew - Old 8 New 74 - Expnenntonn NOLU LIBERTY CALL INTRODUCTION SECTION . 1 1 2 1 3 - Go od-bye f Table 05 Contenfu - Shlp'A Schedule 78 - Pont VMLM 'vw- 98 - Spofzjl 4 - Neozaho Chanactenfinticfs ' gg 2 j 2jZ3QZdfQZ4g6Zfdg2mmand CONCLUSION SECTION 2 5 9 ' Exacufive O554QQL4 104 - The NonSemen'A Hetn pp 5 5 706 - Unlted Agaln - , SSI' c12Ew or THE NEQSHO Anntvet N0n50e12 ' 5 , .772 - And us - 70 - EHQULQQIWTQ The Cnuue Book Sta55 Q ZZ - Supply A 1 I 30 - Openallonzs ...e S 5, ' A 36 - Navlgatlon 0, '-s--v I as 4 x 4 Dtvuton W --f-V - 1 T 42 - Deen -4- f T 50 - Fox 7 Helo Opfs A 54 f Undenweg Replennlshmentn H -.-H T E J NORFOLK, VIRGINIA E oepancedf 04 OCT 76 Retunned: Z7 AP12 77 S ' I W ',, .':1'..,... The USS NEOSHO '76 - '77 Medltennanean ,vil I ww 5 Cnufbse Booh wan cnecoted by the jolnt-e550f1t up I 05 cc cnoesn-Section 05 men, coming 5n0m all I I 5 pants 05 the Ship tn onden to nepnenent Ml I depantmentzs. we wene not expentenced - we A wene not jowtnalbsu on photognaphen MGUCQA - 5 we wene 'n00letef.s'. we DID, howeven, anesemble I I A-1 WN- a good Cnunbse Boch 50n thnx fstze 05 Ahtpl I--T-'Ch T hnough mont peoplebs egen, we wene kosntgned ' I ' to cneate cc Owfbse Boohg but, lt wat completely ...Nw Q voluntany by coll handn on the Cfwtfse Boolz Sta553 1 3 iff rick Q Qoumene hounes 05 thetn own 5nee time wan Spent tn onden to pnoduce a collection 05 5:10121 thai I well toon be hutony. I ---A-S-S--S Only time will tell, but, thu might be the E ----' : laest Meclltefznanean Cnwbse Booh 5on thin '5loat- T ff-V19 QM Atatlon' . . . only time will tell. Additional support was received from: The Cflwlle Boolz SICL55 LZVLOWA ILILUC ,Chit eD5VL'2f ,UIQ I RM2 BELL - QM2 HEFFERNAN - SA CARR gnecutent Cnuue Book even made - but, tt'z1 the SHSN CHILDERS - YN2 KRUEC-ER bent Cnwue Boola even made 50n the USS NEOSHO HMC PHILLIPS, USS VALDEZ tn ttbs 24-gean htstongf PH2 SCHMIDT, USS SHENANDOAH The Crew of the USS NEOSHO CAO-143D DE EDITTER 100 - Enten,ta,tnment 'W' 'MTW' 4.3

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ECSI-IC CHARACTERISTICS HISTORY The name NEOSHO appeared long before the United States came to be. A river with its origin in East Central Kansas was named NEOSHO by the Indians inhabiting that region. The NEOSHO River is 460 miles long, flowing southeast into Oklahoma oil country, where it is generally known as the Grand River. Our ship is the fourth naval vessel to bear the name., Her original ancestor was an ironclad of the famous HMonitorH class, built in l863. Early in this century a precedent was established that fleet oilers would be named after our nation's rivers which bear Indian names. As the result of a major shipbuilding effort during the l930's, the second NEOSHO CAO 23D was commissioned just before the commencement of World War l Surviving the attack at Pearl Harbor, she sailed with the Pacific Fleet to stem the enemy advance. After participating in many battles, AO 23 was sunk in May 1942 after an attack by more than twenty Japanese bombers and one suicide plane during the battle of the Coral Sea. The name was transferred to a later ship of the same class, AO 43, which in her turn served with distinction during the remainder of the war in the Pacific. She was transferred to the maritime fleet at the end of hostilities. Our ship is the first of a class of large cargo capacity, high speed oilers designed to support the modern HSupercarriersH. She was launched in November l953 at the Quincy, Massachusetts yard of Bethlehem Steel Company and placed in commission in September of the following year. NEOSHO is assigned to Service Squadron FOUR and is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. In addition to numerous Mediterranean Deployments, NEOSHO in recent years has answered the call in the Suez Crisis of l956, the Cuban Quarantine in 1962, the Dominican Republic Conflict in 1965, the Task Force 200, the Bicentennial naval operation in l976. Her travels have encompassed four continents and have taken her across the equator and Arctic Circle to exotic ports of call. A0143 : 4 1 s 5 f 1 I I H AE il P . L X i 'x , . ' I w I ,III i