Princeton (LPH 5) - Naval Cruise Book

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rersex m' ere 'Bt' ov 500569, . V gi- 'A i , , X, fS.iI,iR,uQ9?gQa 'X sea ons, smashed confidently nistxifbi '96 e mountain outpost of Kan- ,ittinon 9' early Monday and gotone Govei' counte' Leuthernecks- To Protect Air Base SAIGON CUPD - Combat? ready ' U.S. Marines swarmede ashore ,today and took up 'dei tense' positions around the Da Nang. airbase only 80 miles- 'trorh Communist North Viet' le worst? beatings. Commu- atleast ' ' cg A thsgH3Egf,gQ14l'1Sam V bi A at A 'f 656 t It w s Marine land' i' 'ir roewwue nerr Pspiyi- Gai' , c 1 3 ' - .. ' '0 09 I ST' ni . tagqtegegnef G, aU.s. SAILORS is r A A -' ,Whores ago Ya ' V . gb . . 0I1 Sl 121:91 S GIVE 311009 is , . . 3 1 H a ' S3909 Q GGY-on 9 'A-ue! ted. lldi Men Of the .amphibious assaul ' Viet- Bl xi-0 out 6 rp, Uss Pri ' 4 S P9 'sum gpeedbg , aeszyhcx' 'ge n Ong for a rgggtglrid zielcrlelgifi i 939 ee Ofc 619,21 NI owgi, 6505 eriod, ' responded to an urge ' 5091 be 09 G6 0,5 Ya age. quest for blood donations 'Y xr Q. cow aougix Ondayt Just a few hours afttmji X, - 0 fg , P , me vess l t d , ' b P bsj of gfixgffxg '69 p ,fl I were 180 Over S0epi:gse'5oIi:1ood Wergig LSHINGTON A US il' Wehxei C 4 ,N 1 4 mug est Vete1'aU203.Qted tbyt U.S. sailors V anwg are y V. the top Uns ml 96 .go alll. imes. oethe Ituttomee Sana , K her to the vast 'Pacific -aterqzg A ' Most of the enemy dead I'F1i:-rn, E-isgeftiilms Road East' M g i off 'laden fro m p Viet Nam to illa-controlled' points,-' on 1 Viet Nam's'coast. ' Y Pentagon- also fis a to ive the Far Eastern :rumist s -- i force added punch by in- ,ing its present group of lu aucrdt carriers on sta- tin the South China Sea ,The 'Zth Fleet-has 125 war? ships and 650 'The U.S. Navy has not 'been intercepting Communist junks and cargo boats which. have been hauling war 1 equipment and men downi the '5Vietnamese coast and landing jthsm in guer-' rilla-held areas, Viet Nam's fleet of 556,armed junks has been unable to cope with the peared to have beentn-their ommaind of e gabtaixnifgm teens or early fwentles' -A ap? USNv..-iS,,fhe,DLlC1eus G,-HIEW- Twenty -,teh bodie M strewn close together in j of opentground in front ernment machine4gun ' F:'2'k'i'?tE5'S'i that cut them all down. g?'H'Ewmi 'E5'H 5 Hgtma'-I llnside were about ' lar mountain troops, th lies and nine Amerie 551113 bhtiivl fi H iiraictnhnplete failure. vessels that ply the coastal s an:m++ns y :ta 1 ' assesses NE ZH 'Forces 'menq V ' -1 .V . . 'ss V i. A .f--American. and Vietnamese l1Il1tS under 55, 'men'f0'lght'.ti officials enacting the war at least tWfQ P 0 I H - A-M- -n ,,t,,,,..t.. en oided ammumt' ',V'ent i1K19SQd-d00r The amphibious assault' carrier USS Princeton re- ceivedp a Distinguished Ser- v1ce'Award March rlljfrom the National Cerebral'Pa1sy Foundation' in Los Angeles. -She received the award for her 'project of fcontinu-' ing ,support dar-the Founda- tionasince 1951. In' 1951, Princeton ,was returning from af ffrugged nine-month Korean combat .I0urg -Other ships were also returning, They had made plans for coming-home part- ies and so,.too,had Prince- ton - but-her's was to be far different. Princetonfs crew hadde- cided to set pup at fund for 'ay worthy individual soror- al'iiZBfti0l'l. 8 Miss Janie Taylor, then, 17, was chosen as the in- dividual. She was and still is paralyzed from the waist down, because, of cerebral chosen as ' On s ton' was M oi WP 07' Soon i 1 that first Janie an Princeton over S30,1 tion namt center fc xhildren i .aceton Ci' meet the ship- And nt benefactors. L 0 S Ang Through the years sincep, again dem 139

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Your job with the Seventh Fleet is one of the most important in the World today, Vice Admiral J . B. Colwell, Commander Amphibious Force Pacific, addressing crew on April 7, 1965 . 141