Haverfield (DER 393) - Naval Cruise Book

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The USS AULT CDD-698Q, one of the de- stroyers patroling our area, lets loose a volley from her five inch guns. HAVERFIELD spent three month-long assignments as a patrol unit of Operation Market Time off the coast of South Veitnam. HAVERFIELD 's mission was to detect and deter infiltrators by boarding and searching vessels in the territorial waters off the coast of South Vietnam. Boarding parties worked day and night since there are forty' to fifty thousand junks and other watercraft engaged in legitimate activities along the one thou- sand miles of South Vietnamese coastline. Oneof HAVERFIELD's three-inch fifty mounts blasts away at a Viet Cong position on the beach. A total of 193 rounds were fired that day during HAVERFIELD's only shore bombardment mission of the deployment. 'W 'aff ifotf 1 ocnb l

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