Myles C Fox (DD 829) - Naval Cruise Book

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Twenty five years ago the news proclaimed Allied victories. The German army had been repulsed at the Battle of the Bulge, the Philippines had been liberated and American aircraft had pentrated the Japanese Island. American industry was geared for war . . . planes, tanks and ships were leaving factories and shipyards for combat 8l'68S. Newly built ships were being named after Navymen or Marines, men who had valiantly defended their country. Such a ship is the Newport-based destroyer NIYLES C. FOX. She went down the ways on a winter day in Bath, Maine, 26 years ago. She was christened on January 13, 1945, by IVlrs. Janes C. FOX, mother of Marine Following her commissioning in June 1945 Fox headed for the Pacific area of operations. Arriving there at the end of the war she helped cover the occupation landing on the Japanese home island and later operated in the China Sea with Task Force 58 until her return to the United States in April 1946. One of her highlights in the immediate post-war years was the rescue of 600 survivors of a stranded passenger ship which had been overturned in a typhoon near Hong Kong. In Nlay 1949, FOX was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet and to her present homeport of Newport, R.l. The years 1950 and 1951 found her in the Mediterranean. ln August 1952 FOX participated in Operation Mainbrace, the first large scale NATO manuever, during which the ship crossed the Artic circle. l SHIP A i Q -Nl at

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IN MEMURIAM ln fraternal memory of SM2 LEWIS W. CARROLL USN who passed away on 76 March 7970. I They who think that you are gone Because no more your face they see. Are wrong - for in our hearts you live and always will, in memory. Sadly missed by all aboard USS MYLES C. FOX fDD'32-91 so AAL .. ...LLL 3,94

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