Walker (DD 517) - Naval Cruise Book

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DEDICA TION TO THOSE WE LEFT BEHIND A CRUISE BOOK QUITE PROPERLY REELECTS THE ACTIVITIES OF A SHIP AND HER CREW DURING AN OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT. WITHIN THESE PAGES THE READER WILL SEE PICTURES OF FOREIGN PORTS, THE CREW AT WORK AND PLAY, SHIPBOARD EVOLUTIONS AND OTHER OBVIOUS SHIP-RELATED HAPPENINGS. BUT THIS DOES NOT TELL THE WHOLE STORY OF AN OVERSEAS CRUISE. THE DEPARTURE OF A SHIP FROM HER HGMEPORT MARKS THE BEGINNING OF MANY LONELY MONTHS FOR THE CREW AND THEIR WIVES, SWEETHEARTS AND RELATIVES. THIS CRUISE BOOK DOES NOT TANGIBLY DEPICT THAT FACT, BUT IT TOO IS VERY MUCH A PART OF OUR CRUISE MEMORIES. NOT A DAY PASSED WITHOUT REMEMBRANCES OF HOME AND THOSE LEFT BEHIND. AND SO WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK T0 THOSE WHO WERE VERY MUCH IN OUR THOUGHTS DURING THOSE MONTHS - OUR WIVES, SWEETHEARTS AND RELATIVES. SB

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' WW, 'gm wwf 0.-rf' 21' JW I S IQ y - .I I' ' A I X-4 ft The United States Ship Walker IDD-5175 second U S destroyer named in honor of Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker USN was built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation in Maine and was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 3 April 1943 During World War II the WALKER destroyed four Japanese aircraft and participated in six bombardments of enemy positions includ mg the first bombardment of the Japanese home island WALKER participated in the campaigns which won US control of the Gilbert Island Marshall Islands Dutch New Guineas Marianas Islands Leyte Island Okinawa and THIRD Fleet Operations which contributed When she finally steamed into Tokyo Harbor as gn escort for General MacArthur's sur- re n er team her history revealed an array of six battle star of individual heroic performances to the capitulation of Japan s with countless instances With peace came the Mothball Fleet, but WALKER was not destined for quiet ret1re- ment When plans were developed fO1' H new submarine killer the Mare Island Naval Sh1P yard changed WALKER'S face by lnstallmg the latest and most deadly anti submarine: weapons She rejoined the fleet as an GSCOI' destroyer on September 15 1950 With the Korean conflict ahead WALKER Sped across the Pacific and participated lncarrgli operations and shore bombardment along - Korean coastline Since then she has 00:31, Pleted twelve tours of duty away fro? the homeport in the Hawaiian Islands ENTH Western Pacific as Part of the SEV Fleet r WALKER is presentlv HSS1gUed to Destgggn Squadron ELEVEN with the primary TH of anti submarine warfare 4 2 I I 5 f Q A . 11, If fl, K K l I X 3 . 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