Walker (DD 517) - Naval Cruise Book

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Often during gunfire support the ship must move in close enough to the beach that it is within range of enemy weapons. Alert lookouts, the eyes of the ship, are our first defense. Right, SN Christensen maintains an alert vigil as a lookout,

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.,t,4,,,L ,I ,.- 4,5 l 7 2' .ye-te. .-.-mzffersaf Uur first taste of gunpowder After o brief stop ot Yonkee Stotion to rendezvous with the HORNET, WALKER proceeded south to the IV Corps oreo of South Vietnom ot the mouth of theMekongRiver.We relieved the USS AULT KDD-6985, ond thot evening got our first gunfire support mission of the cruise.

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