Ingraham (DD 694) - Naval Cruise Book

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.4 w al .i . wgj fax . ,!. ,fr 145, .-j, - 'Zig '. l The third ship to be named in honor of Captain Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, the USS INGRAHAM CDD-694723 built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey. She was commissioned Ofl IS March 1944 and was sent directly to the Western Pacific for anti-submarine patrol and escort duty- He' pam soon found INGRAHAM in the midst of battle. I H First, she challenged and sank a Japanese cargo ship off the coast of Mindoro. Later, during the Llflggiyefl QU landings in early 1945, she conducted shore bombardment and screening patrols. She then participated in strikes on Iwo Jima and the Japanese homeland. . in May 1945, enroute to Okinawa with five other ships, INGRAHAM encountered over fifty enemy Dlalles- Qunng the course of action, two destroyers were hit and sunk and scores of enemy planes shot down. Five Kamlkffii planes attacked INCRAHAM in coordinated suicide dives, four of which she successfully shot down. The fl crashed her port side killing 15 men and wounding 36. With only one of her guns operative and her main decka few feet above water, she limped into port for repairs. ,S INGRAHAM rejoined the Pacific Fleet in 1946 and took part in the Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests. In the 1950 she joined the Atlantic Fleet for ASW deployments with NATO and CENTO forces. 9 In 1962 she completed the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization program and went to the Mediterranean Whe' she visited Naples, Barcelona,'Nlenton, Palermo, Cannes, and V l ' ' tembe' Q a encia. On her return to the U.S. in Sep she participated in the orbital flight of Sigma Seven and the Cuban blockade. ,. .fr

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.- 'suxNx, ', s 1 !r .s-J U. S. S. INGRAHAM IDD-6941 ' A Care of Fleef Pos? 1 4' ' Q OFF' New York New Yorllce To Those Who Served On Board In wrltlng these words ny mlnd recalls the many lncldents and events of what, for Host of us, wlll be one of our great adventures of llfe Durlng these seven months we have clrcumnavlgated the Earth, follow lng ln the footsteps of the grand marlners of hlstory we have V1SltSd many new and awakenlng nations 1D thls ever shrlnklng, nore closely knlt world we gave of our resources and energles and selves to prov1de a boost to these peoples' efforts at achlevlng the llfe thelr hopes and prospects denended we lncreased our own knowledge of Jul enx nnert and set higher standards for our personal and profes slonal excellence But most lnportant we were pr1v'l g d to pa tlclpate ln and posltlvely contrlbute to our natlon's dedicated effort to asslst the peoples of V1et.am ln creatlng a natlon of thelr own choice Whlle our endeavors might each lncrement of resolute accorrpllshment wJ ll ln tne long run, bring the day when the people of the world w1ll fulflll thelr splrltual and temporal expectatlons we have been a part of Anerlcan Hlstory and take our place wlth a long llne of dedicated predecessors who unquestlonlngly and unfllnchlngly responded tO Our nat1on's call to colors ln a tlne of danger Our reward lS the knowledge that we served and returned safely wlth prlde ln our aCCOHpll5hHentS fijjf , f ' STANLEYS F f a f ' , . I I f Q-P I I , I ' 1 V ffiro 'A P, I Q L. N' I ' ' l e e r' ' ' . - '75 .2 ' have seemed small in the overall pattern of events, I ' I- 4. I l' . . . I . I is A V241 1,7 A7 ,r 1 V K if

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I I Mgmt N12 'xr Q 1 'Sl .L ks,-. . . i Q . V l fa t 1 A -.rr 'J ff. ' ', L Y, tem, . ,A , -we V ' f'?.i ' -ae.. it , .r ar' it ICU!-' l WHS in li itrolS i Gul. rilcff lurilll lkalf filill ecki 950'S rrhflf emlifl -Q-'-'r.'re-'w , Q: .Ff- In the summer of 1963, INGRAHAM hosted a group of midshipmen on an Atlantic cruise to Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and New York City. She deployed in October with the carrier ESSEX for a variety of countries including Spain, Italy, Malta, Saudi-Arabia, East Africa, Aden and Pakistan. INGRAHAM then took part in HSpringboard , an annual training exercise held at San Juan, Puerto Rico. While there she celebrated her twentieth birthday, making her one of the Navy's oldest, continually active ships. She spent the next few months in brief Atlantic ASW operations and in September deployed with the carrier WASP to participate in the large scale NATO exercises HTeamwork and HSteel Pike I . She visited Valencia, Rota, Palma, Marseilles, and Toulon while in the Mediterranean. After returning from the Mediterranean, INGRAHAM spent several months in Boston for a yard overhaul. Spring and summer of 1965 saw her in refresher training in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as various operations in the Western Atlantic. She hosted two groups of midshipmen for the summer months. In September INGRAHAM embarked on her first combat tour since the end of World War II. With her sister ships of Destroyer Squadron 24, she became the first Atlantic Fleet destroyer to engage in actual fire with the Viet Cong. The four month combat tour in the Vietnamese theater saw her participating in numerous gunfire support missions where over 2000 rounds of five inch ammunition were hurled at the enemy. Other duties included life- guarding for the carriers TICONDEROGA and HANCOCK along with several surveillance missions. She returned to Newport in April 1966 to an exceptional homecoming after one of the most unique and meaningful missions in her career. Ports visited on the around the world cruise included the Panama Canal, Hawaii, Okinawa, the Phil- Fppines, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, the Suez Canal, Italy, Spain and the Azores.