Manley (DD 940) - Naval Cruise Book

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Manley In The Ne ws wliflanley Blast Gcorgianis Ship Ends 2nd Vic Tour The Charleston-based destroyer USS Manley, commanded by Commander Warren C. Graham, Jr. of Valdosta, completed her second tom' recently on. the Gunline along the coast of Vietnam.- During a 26-day period she fired over 2,350 rounds' of five- inch projectiles. Although dam- age assessment to' targets was not always available' because of weather, officers -said the following confirmed results were ascertained: 78 Viet Cong killed, '20 more possible kills, 12. struc- tures destroyed, seven structures damaged, eight bunkers de- stroyed and' four machine gun nests and two machine gun bunkers destroyed. J Manley traveled. 3,500 miles dtufing the 26 days on the Gun- line, answering numerous calls for fire and harassing and il-, luimiinsation missions. She escort- ed ,convoys up and down the- USS p Manley Arrives At J Peclrl Harbor A Charleston-based destroyer, the USS Manley, has reached Pearl Harbor and is now operat-. ing with Destroyer Squadron 20 in the Pacific, a Navy spokes- man said yesterday. if The Manley passed through! the Panama Canal last week and spent two days at Rodman, Canal Zone, before continuing 'on to Pearl Harbor. The ship is in the Pacific Ocean for the first time since she was com- missioned in 1957. For most of the ship's crew, the passage through t e Pana- ma Canal was a first. The tran- sit of the canal took eighthours. The Manley is commanded by T' Cmdr.. Warren G. Graham Jr. at South Vietnamese coast riding shotgun in support of men and vehicles that sometimes ranged as far as 12 miles inland. Gunfire support was directed almost nightly against Viet Cong positions, sniper and mortar fire, stora and . infiltration' 89 areas. and encampments. Calls for fire were directed to within a few hundred yards of friendly, troops under attack. '- ' - ' - -- Y ..- .,... 4--.4 Destroyer Gives Aid To Ship In Distress i A Charleston - based destroy- er answered a distress call off Viet Nam .yesterday from 'a Greek merchant ship whose captain apparently suffered , a heart attack, the Navy said last night. H ' - The destroyer Manley sent Lt. Jim Meares and Hospital Corps- man 1.C. Thomas Fortisch to the Greek- ship Marietta after receiving a call for medical help. Fortisch administered to the stricken skipper and instructed crewmen in how to care for him until the Marietta reached port.- A Cmdr. Warren G. Graham, commander of the Manley, noti- fsied authorities ashore to have a doctor meet the ship. He gave the Greek ship charts to help the Greek crew find its way to i the port. W ' The Manley now serves with the -7th Fleet in the South China U Sea off the coast of Viet Nam. The- destroyer left Charleston oops., '- - raised Valdostan, Crew i B olon l A e SAI-GON - An 1 heard was dun thud, ,eaid.sen, Henry -M. Jackson, D-Wash., who was aboard the De. stroyer Manley when a five-inch shell exploded during ,operations off Viet Nam. . I was in the chart house be- hind the bridge at the time, gon. 1 Jackson was unhurt but the fire that followed the blast in a gun turret Wednesday injured three .of the Manley's crewmen. Q 'Jackson had 'high praise- for the, .1delstroyer's uicaptain, Cmdr. Warren G. . Graham ,of Valdos- ta, Ga., its' crew and its medi- cal corpsmen. ' ,- U The senator, on his fourth vis- it to Viet Nam, was ,aboard the I I - Manleyto obse'rve'a navalbom- bardme-nt. Y Q i ' The: . I three, ,men, reported in good u condition aftlerg ia 1--flash fire which ,i-i resulted 'from ' the explosion, were: . ' Gunner's Mate Benny Clark Maxwell, Charleston, S. C. , Seaman. James .Robert Hooks I V ,.. . 9 New-' Haven, Conn., a . Gunners Mate' 2 c wiuie ' ' . , . - - f'- A . 'm .D0l1S1gs .West, J acksonville, Fla. ' . They suffered second and third degree burns, Navy spokesmen Sa1Cl,'8nd were evacuated to the Naval- hospital atjDa Nang, ,South Viet Nam. ' .Thepexplosion Wednesday took place in a forward .gun mount' -as the Manley shelled Commun- fist POSitions south of the big Dai -idclrines Credit Saving Effect he told newsmen today 'in Sai- WARREN GRAHAM, I' Shipfs, Commander Nang naval' base. Thee.-NQYY could give no immediatefausg for the explosion. ,. . . The 4,200-ton destroyer, Which haue Charleston., C.. ns home port, reportedwfor duty Wlth the U. S. 7th Fleet, last mO11il1- ' Of Monley's Gunfire SUPPOQ MC1ose gunfire support by USS - ' d FT15 kers.i anley, Charleston - based destroyer, prevented probable heavy losses to Marines fighting ,ill 1:9198 Phan Province recently. M OP eisht hours the ship fired !0:1e mch Pfolectiles into enemy GCZS, surpressing sniper fire an estroying four machine gum ,nests an W0 un almost Marines were under continuous fire by the Viet Their spotters, Pfaismgns for acouracl' Of her g n they all would have bee men without it. Manley it about zao rounds in S3290 the Marines during. the Y

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