Pharris (FF 1094) - Naval Cruise Book

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U.S. forces encounter no ne fire off Lib a ,i A Llbyan gunboat burns ln the Gulf of Sldra early Tuesdayafter being hlt by U.S. missiles. AP photo The Coral Sea The Saratoga The Al'l16l'lC8 .- X I I f I X ' 1 . I l f ,f pl 7 ITIISSIIB ,KC ' 4 -s . . 4 f Z F . I X X I X -S -N Early Sunday night. U-S X f 7 x : -, 'xi planes on maneuvers cross ' , , .4 ,- X .Rua . Libya's Line ol Death 7 - f x xg N across the Gulf ot Sldra. At 7:52 f X ' 'ig y '.' Ng' a.m EST Monday, Libyans tire 2 xg 'X Q: ES- two SA-5 long-range missiles 41 X N . X N lrom Sirtc toward U.S. aircralt. At ' X g A 12:45 pm EST, two more SA-Ss ,, - . Q . A are tired lrom thc same sight, , . . ny,-, gs ' 'ln N along with a shorter-range SA-2 , X X X xx No U S. planes are hit. 4 ,f 'gl xx Q In tr ' I A c 1 f A ,tai . ' . N s 1 , . Xi- g. 3 7 If , I ' - I X -- f My ' 'Line of Death' aoooonoonooooooooosooooooooooooolooooooooooooooooooosooooooeoeoonlu oooooo000oolonocoooooooeloeooosoco sooo 0socean0sooooooosoooooooomooooooosoosooooc At4,19pm,EST,asecond 19 Libyan patrol boat turns in . . the direction ol the 6th Fleet . Tnpol' along the 'line of death. ' It is attacked by an unidentitied Navy jet and disabled. 200 miles ,i Mlsratah I I I Benghazi it ' I V . , f' X . ' l .rt 1 , Q' ' ITALY N :Lg xii Vi Lf.5,,,,E'sQ.ctJ ,, - I Y 4 'V ti ' S'C L Al 106 ...., QST tw., I Qgzvggjfgjjfsjg-igijft t 2l'3flTit i'i1Ul25 t2'i D ..Q':::iz'azz1m's:'f213' t 3 . V V. - g - oa a y - ,. TUNISIA Mtdllellanean ed CRETE Slfle SU', Cc'm'dU 'mssnc 'rom a Gulf of Sidra lrom the carrier America as it r ,, , -.-----. battery at Sarto toward U.S. ' ' planes an A-7 attack get lrorn the moves toward me Gm Fleet' The t g 1 fiz2i:s:'L,'z,:,:,:s'Jaime ' Lmym' gms' and 'UCS two HARM water and set atire. No survivors niissilizs at thi- SA-5 battery The are Si med Inset missilrs knock out at lcast two 9 ' W enemy radars, disabling the Sirtc EGYPT installation l t i Stall graphic by SAM HUNDLEY 17

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U.S. action off Lib a is applauded By FORD REID Staff writer NORFOLK - It was the right thing to do, John G. Milner was say- ing as he stood in the parking lot of an Ocean View convenience store. Libya has for too long gotten away with posturing and pushing. It is time America pushed back. - I'm proud of our guys, Milner said. f'They're doing the job they are there for. Milner got out of the Navy last fall. He will soon be going home to Califomia, he said. This almost makes me wish I'd stayed in, he said with an grin. Not quite, but almost. It makes me proud. Inside the store, a clerk said that sales of the postcards featuring pic- tures of F-14 Tomcat fighter planes and the aircraft carriers from which they fly had not increased since the fighting that began Mon- day. But people have been talking about that, April Hernandez said. All day you hear people saying it's about time we did something. Along Ocean View Avenue, where marquees routinely welcome home battle groups, and up and down Lit- tle Creek Road young sailors spoke of the confrontation in the Gulf of Sidra. We have the strength, a sailor said. We have to use it wisely, but we have to use it. At Super Shirts in Military Circle Mall, T-shirts that say U.S. Navy 2 - Libya 0 were displayed on the counter. The shirts refer to an Au- gust 1981 encounter off the Libyan coast that cost Col. Moammar Kha- dafy two of his-fighter planes. They sold a couple of them this moming, said Marilyn Puckett, shop manager. But mostly I've, had people stopping by and telling me they have the score wrong. She said she would be ordering updated shirts. Seaman J .T. Williams said he might buy a shirt when the new ones come in. I'm'no Rambo, Williams said. But I'd be proud to be on one of those ships right now. They'll come 16 7 1 1 . AP Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader clalms the entire Gum of Sidra as territorial waters. back all right. They're doing the job over there. James H. Nelson, who sees things from a different perspective, prays that Williams is, right. Nelson, who -will be 70.011 April 3, spends many of his days at a picnic table. on Community 'Beach in Ocean View. He sits there for hours, he, said, peering out at the shipping lanes through a 20-year-old pairiof 7X5O binoculars. 1 watch the ships come and go, he said as he toyed wig. a half- smoked, unlighted ciga . 1 may have seen those ships that are over there leave, and I hope that 1 see them come back. , He is a religious man, Nelson said, with an unshakable faith in God. - But man's got to do his' part, too, he said. This looks like war to me. l just hope we know what we are doing.

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