Mahlon Tisdale (FFG 27) - Naval Cruise Book

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? If the need should arise. TISDALE $ well equipped to meet the situation de- fensively and offensively Alot of training and actu- . ons firing went on during the deployment to ensure that all stations were prepared m the event of an attack MK75 76MM Oto Malera in top form STG2 Jones on the 60 Cal Machine Gun

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Fire Power HH Gunner! Your target bears 090 at 60 yards! - OPEN FIRE!! J ' MK13 Launcher with SM- 1 Surface to Air Missih MK32 Torpedoes ft ■-■ j Aw 4! A SrG7 Burrows and the .50 Cat. Machine Gun.

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L ying at the southern extrem- ity of Asia at the tip of the Ma- lay Peninsula. Singapore is sep- erated from the Malaysian mainland by the narrow Johore Straits. The main Island of Singa- pore is 26 miles from East to West and 14 miles from North to South. It is 80 miles North of the Equator. The national lan- guage is Malay, but Mandarin, English and Tamil are also offi- cial languages. The population of Singapore is over 2.5 million making it one of the most densely populated countries. (10,357 people per square