White Plains (AFS 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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SHIP' 'THISTOR O R I E N T WHITE PLAINS IAFS 49, is a combat stores ship, designed to operate with high-speed task forces and provide them with logistics support in the form of food, general supplies and repair parts so that these units may, in turn, remain at sea for prolonged periods. The ship is named for the city of WHITE PLAINS, NIW YORK, the scene of a Revolutionary War Battle. USS WHITE PLAINS, the second ship in the United States Navy to bear this name, Is the fourth in the MARS class of Combat Stores Ship. Her keel was laid October 2, I96S, and she was christened Iuly 26, 1966 by Mrs. Bob Wilson. WIIIII PLAINS was commisioned on November 2 3, 1968. She set new AFS-class records for volume of replenishment in 1972 Iassociated with Vietnam operationsi. For this, she was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Iler homeport was then shifted from Alameda to Sasebo, Iapan. Arriving there in November 1972, she underwent engineering conversions in Order to burn ND fuel. The following year was also a busy one for WHITE PLAINS as she made eight replenishment line swings and underwent refresher training and command inspection. ln 1974, WHITE PLAINS participated in Operation FLYAWAY and two USNXROKN ASW exercises, six line swings, a deploy- ment to the Indian Ocean, and interim refresher training. During 1975, WHITE PLAINS highlights were special operations with the Korean Navy, and the evacuation of Cambodia and South Vietnam operations known as EAGLE PULL and FREQUENT WIND. WHITE PLAINS arrived in Yokosuka in early September and two weeks later began seven weeks of overhaul. During the eight month period from April to November 1976, she was sent to Guam, participating in Diseaster Relief Opera- tions there, and then back to Yokosuka for refresher training. Upon completion of the Final Battle problem, she deployed on two hours notice for one month's special operation in the Indian Ocean. Then after a three week upkeep in Yokosuka, she was sent off on a two month deployment to participate in Operation KANCAROO Il in the Coral and Tasman Seas, receiving inspec- tion in Subic: enroute. Highlighting 1977 was an autumn deployment to the Indian Ocean while participating as primary support ship in Operation MIDLINK. E X P R E S WHITE PLAINS' next major deployment was in support of Seventh Fleet units participating in the highly successful amphib- ious Excercise TEAM SPIRIT conducted on South Korean shores, As the decade drew to a close in 1979, the year was highlight- ed for WHITE PLAINS by her participation in two major opera- tions, FORTRESS CALI, MAFIEX and also by her outstanding per- formance during the refugee-rescue operations conducted in the South China Sea that year. Between the months of july and September, WHITE PLAINS encountered several refugee craft drifting aimlessly at sea and, with the combined effoit of all hands, saved 322 lives during those months. For this she earned the Ilumanitarian Ribbon. Then in November, after a brief upkeep in Yokosuka, the ship's sc heclule changed suddenly and drastically when WHITE PIAINS had to depart for the Indian Ocean during the U.S.- lranian hostage crisis. For the remainder of the year and for the first four months of 1980, WHITE PLAINS stayed in the Indian Ocean conducting replenishment and providing logistics support to the various ships assigned to Task Force 70. The next six months were spent in Yokosuka shipyards, as WHITE PLAINS received an extensive overhaul, updating her unrep gear and taking off her two 3 5O mounts from the super- structure. After a brief visit in December to her old homeport of Sasebo, WHITE PLAINS began to get back to business as usual. After passing PEB and refresher training, WHITE PLAINS made three separate I.O. deployments during 1981, allowing only a total of 42 days of homeport time for the entire year. Highlights of 1981 included a SAR mission of a downed C-130, and the rescue of 211 Vietnamese refugees during the month of Iune, besides setting many unrep records and establishing record high scores for a Command Inspection for a WestPac ship. After returning to Yokosuka for Christmas, WHITE PLAINS re- turned to the I.O. in February 82, beginning yet another major logistic mission. During this time WHITE PLAINS rescued 49 more Vietnamese refugees. Returning to Yokosuka in june, she then began a 3 month overhaul.

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