Waldron (DD 699) - Naval Cruise Book

Text from Pages 1 - 72 of the 1970 volume:

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Reichart entered the Navy as an enlisted man, but in a year, he became a Plebe at the Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1957. His first billet was in the Weapons Department, but since that time he has special- ized in Operations, especially Com- munications. He was the staff Comm'Officer on the USS ALBANY lCG lOl during the recovery opera- tion for the bomb which was dropped off the coast of Spain. He came to the WALDRON from his second tour at the Naval Post Graduate School at Monterey, California where he was an instructor in Staff Communi- cations. He is married to the former Ginger Smith of Summit, New Jersey, has five daughters, and lives in Chesapeake, Va. W,-f X 5 C f 'vga NJ ENGINEERING -Q' xS,s 2 VA' 7 ' 3- lf xx A --.... tpfkggg F in Q fd- ri ,Il 3' .Q 1 7 cz ' 5 ' ,HJ N .' C7 , il . Q Ig, s J , 6 . Q V xl. S., ,l ' K 3,1 -RD gm 4 v A QM, gf' ' ,ff - ? 4 . . I S Ii iff! 4. .x,. ., 1,1-. -A. ! 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Later, moving into the Tokyo Bay area, WALDRON rammed and sank a Japanese picket boat. ln August of the same year the ship steamed alongside USS MISSOURI into Tokyo Bay to ac- cept the unconditional surrender of Japan. After the Korean war, in 1953, she cruised around the world, later finding herself at the scene of the Suez and Cyprus crises. In June 1962 WALDRON entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard for her FRAM ll modernization covering all shipboard systems. Upon com- I pletion, she returned to the Atlantic Fleet and in August, 1965 served as a unit of the GEMINI 5 Recovery team where she was second ship on the scene of the splashdown. In December she again worked with the Manned Spacecraft Forces dur- ing the GEMINI 6!7 mission. July 1966 found the WALDRON be- ginning a seven-month deployment to the Far East and Vietnam. While there she was active in gunfire support, plane guard duty, and am- phibious landings. Eight months after returning from WestPac WALDRON deployed to the Medi- terranean, participating in support of fast carrier task groups and am- phibious operations, returning to Norfolk in January 1969. After a change of command she returned to the Mediterranean to repeat these duties on 8 Sept 1969 and after many miles steamed and many long hours she made up at berth 232, D815 Piers, US Naval Station, Norfolk on 28 March 1970. Cruise Book Officer LTJG Morgan Photography and Layout ENS Rawle Photography STG2 Rowell E WALSWORTH Cruise Book Office PUBLISHING 915 West 21st Street COMPANY Norfolk, Virginia 23517 Marceline, Mo., lJ.S.A. . 1 f X . J X. 'la L -A 1-if A 4 :- 4 4 l 2 I 7 1 4 I .Of . 1 - I. 0 -'L ' -1, X 'IJ' E A., x . , Wm- V-M .M 4.-,nl ,NL ,... V - ' 'M u Q 44' D., ,gvf gf 'jX,.+-f -pf . Q .. ' '9 'V Ar' ' iffy'-7' -fn, f ' 'L1 g 2 1 Q 3 , . Q . Q . ...I V . S 'U 'MWQ143 ' - - Q1 . 4 5' ' ' .Q JI ' It yum. . Q - Q ' Q ' Q - . J' .4 I in I ' f . C an .' H. 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