Henrico (APA 45) - Naval Cruise Book

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With the Cuban Crisis at hand the ship loaded troops, stores, equipment and ammunition and departed for the Caribbean on 27 October as a part of Task Group 53.2. Transiting the Panama Canal on 5 November 1962 the ship entered the Caribbean and steamed in the vicinity. of Cuba, in readiness for any overt action that may occur. As tension in Cuba subsided the force departed the Caribbean on 6 December returning to San Diego on 15 December. During the period 14 January to 15 February 1963 the ship underwent refresher and am- phibious refresher training, followed by Exercise STEELGATE at San Clemente Island and Camp Pendelton from 28 February to 8 March under the command of Commander Amphibious Group THREE. On 26 March the HENRICO deployed for the Western Paciiic with Amphibious Squadron ONE. Highlights of the deployment included participation in Exercises F LAGPOLE and BAYON ET BEACH which took place at Pohang, Korea, and the transporting of dependents from Sasebo to Hong Kong for recreation. Returning to San Diego in September CAP- TAIN H. J. ROSANIA, USN, relieved CAPTAIN DOLAN as Commanding Officer on the 16th of the month. On 9 January 1964 HENRICO entered the Todd Shipyard at San Pedro for overhaul and returned to San Diego on 16 April. On 21 April the ship was presented the Battle Efficiency Award for Amphibious Squadron ONE for the Competitive Year 1964. For the remainder of the spring and the sum- mer the ship conducted refresher training, local operations and participated in Exercise SEA BAR which was concluded on 10 September. On 17 September 1964, CAPTAIN E. G. DANKWORTH, USN, relieved CAPTAIN ROS- ANIA as Commanding Officer. 4-s Nd 5 -i K

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On 20 January 1961 CAPTAIN R M HAYES USN relieved CAPTAIN RHODEMYRE as Com manding Oflicer In February 1961 the ship entered a San Fran cisco shipyard for a two month overhaul period From April to October 1961 the HENRICO par ticipated in several exercises in the San Diego area which included WAGON MASTER PAPER CUTTER MARLEX 61 PACNARMIDLEX 61 and a NATO demonstration Amphibious re fresher and refresher training immediately pre ceded the ship s departure for the Western Pacific on 16 October With Commander Am phibious Squadron ONE embarked the ship participated in Exercise SILVER SWORD in the Hawaiian area with units of Service Force Pa ciiic Cruiser Destroyer Force Pacific Subma rines Pacific and personnel of the 1st Marine Brigade lst Division this exercise was con ducted during the period 27 October to 4 Novem ber 1961 Western Pacific operations included Visits to Okinawa Sasebo Yokosuka Iwakuni Keelung and Hong Kong The deployment ended with participation in Exercise TULUNGAN conduct ed in the Philippine area with Amphibious Squadrons ONE and SEVEN Departing WEST PAC on 17 April the ship arrived in San Diego on 5 May 1962 i During the Competitive Year 1962 HENRICO was awarded the Green E for Operations the Assault Award for the third consecutive year On 12 July the ship entered the Willamette Iron and Steel Works shipyard in Portland Ore gon for overhaul and returned to San Diego on 7 September On 18 July CAPTAIN J H DOLAN USN relieved CAPTAIN HAYES as Commanding Officer On 28 September the ship entered the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company shipyard in San Diego for additional engineering work 7 - 7 7 7 4 7 ' , ' ' ' 5 ' ' - Red for Engineering and the Amphibious 7 7 7 7 7 - 7 J .

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November 16 found HENRICO again enroute to the Western Pacific where she arrived at Yoko- suka on 9 December. From 16 December to 27 January 1965 the ship operated between Subic Bay and Okinawa transferring troops. On 8 March HENRICO was a part of the task group that landed the first U. S. combat unit in Viet Nam at Da Nang. The remainder of the deploy- ment was spent in transferring troops from Okinawa to Viet Nam with landings at Da Nang, Hue, and Chu Lai. The ship departed Yokosuka on 2 June and arrived in San Diego on 16 June On 2 August 1965 CAPTAIN H D DUR HAM USN relieved CAPTAIN DANKWORTH as Commanding Officer Immediately following the change of command the ship departed on a troop lift deployment to Okinawa and returned to San Diego on 30 September 1965 The remainder of 1965 was spent conducting local operations in the San Diego area In Janu ary 1966 the ship commenced refresher and amphibious refresher training which was fol lowed by more local operations During the period 12 16 April HENRICO participated in the amphibious phase of Exercise GRAY GHOST Conducting unit training from 19 to 29 April HENRICO earned her sixth consecu tive Amphibious Assault Award and her fourth consecutive Engineering Excellence Award On 18 July the ship departed San Diego with Commander Amphibious Squadron ONE em barked for the Western Pacific with stops at the Naval Ammunition Depot Seal Beach to load ammunition and Pearl Harbor for fuel where CAPTAIN H D WILLIAMS USN relieved CAPTAIN DURHAM as Commanding Oflicer on 5 August 1966 . 7 ll - a 9 . . . - . . ' 9 . . . .. . . . , , .