Barry (DD 933) - Naval Cruise Book

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oo Not REMOVE EROIVI THIS Book u 5 5 BARRY too 933l CARE OE EEEET POST OFFICE 965 NEW YORK NEW YORK PLAN OE TI-IE CRUISE SEPTEMBER T965 TO APRIL T966 TJG Carter BOOTITI USN Ruben E STEWART QJMGZ Larry R POTTS SIVIQ Captain Carl A SANDER USN l'IenryT I-IOWARD SN Many Contributors Donald A FERGUSON ETG3 UNIEORIVI OE TI-IE YEAR hen going forward, Blues when going aft, Dungarees when standing still wg suits optional on leave and liberty. IDARD SI-IIP BOARD ROUTINE, EXCEPT: eet in the Vietnam War. anal on 6 October l965. Hawaii on 20 October I965 October I9o5. I Dateline 25 October l965. an I November I965. 6 November I965. ilippine Islands I7 November 1965 to commence type training at Tabones a 30 November I965 in company USS ENTERPRISE ICVAINJ obj USS l 253 and USS ROBERTS IDD-8235 for Dixie Station in South China Sea on 29 September I965 as one of the first Atlantic fleet destroyers to J N uber of T O 77 7 in first combat strike launched from a nuclear powered ire support ember I965 to I5 December T965 fired over ISOO rounds of 5 at targets Iuding VC roadblock installations and supply dumps and at similar Delta region ENTERPRISE h d as t ey eparted Dixie Station onl5 December to steam erations at Point Yankee rike as member of TO77 7 on Uong Bi power complex in North Vietnam Tber I965 to proceed to South Vietnamese coast near Vung Tau and up c Q 3 rike as member of TO77 7 on Hai Duong bridge spans on 23 December fears spent on station in South China Sea 1 1 illippine Islands on I7 January IQ66 after 48 days of air strike operations i ippine Islands on 20 January I966 following receipt of an urgent gunfire support ship for amphibious operations STGTIOVI ROUPIG E0QIe during week of 28 January LI February IQ66 nds in combat support of Marines GSI-lore.

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AT l000, 29 SepTember T965 BARQY goT Linde f- Way Tor vvhaT was To be a long, someTimes Trying bUT in The end, a very successiful and saTisTying deploymenT in The SouTh China Sea wiTh The UniTed STaTes SevenTh l:leeT. The deploymenT would egenwally end in an around The world cr . ' ' uise y The Time This deploymenT was over h we ad added much To our repuTaTion as one of The TinesT ships in The TleeT, earned The esTeem T h o oT er ships in company, as well as The per COMCRUDES L!-XNT RJADIVT Ruckner deparTing. Take in The brow! sonal saTisTacTion of having done a iob iusT as well as we possibly could. The long Trip down Th e coasT of NorTh America, Through The Panama Canal and across The vasT Pacific Ocean is remembered Tor drills, dri preparaTion Tor The exacTing schedule avvaiTing Us as a combaT uniT of The SevenTh l:leeT. lls and more drills in A lasT look aT pier one. Anchors aweigh my boys!

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Q0 Detached 5 February i966 to r 'd Wing in Binh Dinh province. D OV' 9 Support ICOV lST Air Cavalry's Operation lvlosher and White Remain on gunfire support duty until i6 February TQ66, Arrive Hang Kong i8 February. Spent all but 3oi previous 8O days at sea for operations. Depart l-long Kong 23 February l966. Reioin with other ships of Destroyer Squadron 24 in South China Sea on 26 February l966. Cross equator at lO50E. Longitude on 27 February l966, Arrive Renang, Maylaysia on l March l966, atter passage ot the Singapore and Malacca Straits. Depart next day for indian Ucean transit Cross lndian Ocean, arrive at COCHIN, india on 6 March l966: Vice Admiral John J. HYLAND bid us Sayonara as we detached from 7th tleet Arrive Aden, British South Arabian Rrotectorate, to retuel on i2 March l966. Lett same day tor Red Sea Transit. Transit Suez Canal on l6 lvlarch l966. Arrive Naples, italy on 20 March i966 for 3 day visit. Arrive Barcelona, Spain tor 3 day rest and recreation visit on 211 March l966. Arrive Gibraltar on 29 March 1966. Depart later same da a, Arrive Runta del Gada, Azores, l April 66. y Arrive Newport, Rhode island 8 April i966 after steaming nearly 50,000miies: b r ' 3 , u ning over million gallon s of fuel oil, consuming over a million and a halt gallons of fresh water, 7 tons of meat, 2 tons of butter, IO tons t bread d 6l ' ' A A T H o an ,OOO eggs, and tiring over,2,5OO roundS of 5 ammuntition in combat. BARRY also retueled, rearmed and replenisheclfatfiseo a total of 45 times while attached to SEVENTH FLE ET. .y W' ll' is will ' 4 I li T All 3 xi ,i W, . , 7 qml , . . ' . 1 , . - I - , , , f it-,l lN l to i , , g li. i' il ll 'll l . l V l f , 1 . ll f lllllllllll l l tml itil lil l