Salisbury Sound (AV 13) - Naval Cruise Book

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AIR DEPARTMENT The Air Department composed of V-1, V-2, V-3, and W Divisions is responsible for the establishing of the seaclrome, consisting of buoy marked seadromes and mooring buoys, the maintenance and upkeep of aircraft in the seaclrome, and the procuring, storing assembling and testing of the bombs and rockets. The eHicient working of the air department is necessary for the Sally to maintain her anti-submarine capabilities. U ii i ii Mg-'rf' M ks , a X ' I I '----i ' I vf-4' P HR ee, s , LCDR Finley

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'--- 'lm ang s, .W s..,.,- ,Q I T l 5 15 ' 391' it' ily we. .., W' X, ' . 'lf 17 I 1 J 1 Q ' 'A,V f ' is ' . , A W, ma tm an 01 in? .. ' . ll I mls- i -- Q5 TTY' , Front Row tl to rj : LCDR Wilson, LCDR Cosh, CDR Newby, CAPT Minton Chief-of-Stott CDR Pieston, LCDR Doniels, LCDR Rogers, LCDR Koci Bock Row: LCDR Roland, LT Farnsworth, LT Lesh, LT Goldstone, LT Fortis, LTJCv Corswell, ENS Overstreet, ENS Nutting, ENS Sundstrom, LT Peorl TASK FORCE 72 The Navy's Task Force 72 serving as the eyes and ears of the US. Seventh Fleet, is main- taining a continuous vigil over the lnternational waters bordering the communist countries in the VVestern Pacific. Two colateral units, Fleet Air VVing ONIQ and the US. Taiwan Patrol Force, comprised of both air and surface forces, maintain surveillance patrols off the coastlines of Soviet Siberia, North, Korea, North Viet Nam and the communist-held China mainland without intruding into these sovereign areas to detect potential enemy threats against U.S. forces or our pro-VVestern allies in the Viiestern Pacific area. The five patrol squadrons of the Task Force operate from air bases located along a 3,000-mile front, extending from the northern tip of ,lapan to the southern Philippine Islands and patrol from the northern reaches of the Sea of Japan, southward into the South China Sea. On the surface, a destroyer division from the Seventh Fleet patrols the narrow C90-mile wideil Taiwan Strait that separates the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan from the Communist- controlled Chinese mainland. Two of the aerial patrol squadrons within the Task Force fly the PZV Neptune patrol planes and two squadrons fly the P5lVl lVlarlin seaplane. The fifth squadron of Task Force 72 flies Super Constellation aircraft and the twin jet A3D, crammed with specially designed, ultra-sensitive electronic equipment. Although primarily used for patrol purposes, the aircraft of the Task Force are extremely versatile. They have been used in the past and could be used in the future to plant mine fields, conduct search and rescue operations, detect and destroy enemy shipping and submarines, serve as escort for convoys and in a host of other equally challenging roles. The headquarters from this far-flung command is necessarily mobile. Operating from whichever of the seaplane tenders that is attached to the Seventh Fleet at a given time, the Task Force Commander and his staff can move from one point in the Westerii Pacific to another, as circum- stances require. As the watchdogs of the US. Seventh Fleet, these air and surface units fulfill their assigned missions daily, aware that the security of the Far East is dependent in large degree upon their alertness.

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we-f LCDR DeHort V-I Division Ofiicer T...- LTJG Webb V-3 Division OFiicer LTJG Kerr V-2 Division Officer . P',.s ,,,:, Q 2 if ,fr P .JJ 0. CWO 2 Youngclohl W-Division Oiiiicer