Ajax (AR 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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On the 31st of August, the USS AJAX arrived at the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippine Islands. As we sailed in you could see whole mountain ranges carved into gigantic stairways. The more than 7,000 islands extend for about 1,000 miles along Asia ' s southeastern rim, forming a chain between the Pacific Ocean on the east and the South China Sea on the west. The U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay and most liberty opportunities are located on Luzon, the largest on these islands. By the 1960 ' s Subic Bay had become a key to the defense of free Western Nations. Operations in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam conflict made Subic Bay the busiest port in the Western Pacific with the greatest number of visiting warships ever seen by any U.S. naval base overseas. Today more than 35,000 Filipino and American military personnel and civilian employees work side by side at the Subic Bay complex to support the Seventh Fleet units which maintain American presence throughout the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean.