Carpenter (DD 825) - Naval Cruise Book

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On December 20, some of its got a chance to see what things were like ashore, when the ship organized a MEDCAP CMedical Civic Actionj mission to aid the inhabitants of Son T ra, a ref- ugee village in the same area where we had delivered shore bombardment. Our party consisted .of twelve: the squadron chaplain, the division doctor, and ten men from CARPENTER . . l MEDCAP The MEDCAP team aboard a PCF Swift boat approaches the beach. Left to right: SN Tinney, the boat's skipper, SN Williams, GMG3 Jordan, Chaplain Roy, HMC Mahone. n army outpost overlooks the a.,.,,..,.. 2,-t iver on which the village of Son ra lies. Less than an hour before he picture was taken, the village had been hit by mortar fire.