Toledo (CA 133) - Naval Cruise Book

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Welcome, Reader to the Unuted States Shup TOLEDO The story we are about to tell you concerns the luves, hopes and ambutuons of hundreds of saulors who have un the past or are at present servung on board thus heavy cruuser lt us a story both vuolent and auuet, actuve and passuve, varued and routune lt us our story and the story of our shup Before we tell you the story of our fifth and latest cruuse, let me brung you up to date on the Bug T The TOLEDO us the first Unuted States shup of the lune bearung the name of the cuty of Toledo, Ohuo l'ler keel was laud at the Phuladelphua Naval Shupyard un September of i943 but her late commussuonung un October of l9-46 prevented her from seeung actuon un World War ll l-ler first assugnment after commussuonung was a shakedown cruuse to Guantanamo Bay l Gutmo as ut us known to Navy waysl un Cuba Thus was the prelude to her unutual duty on the East Coast of the States March of I947 found the shup begunnung her first world cruuse on whuch she vusuted such ullustruous and exotuc ports as Gubraltar, Port Saud Bombay, Colombo Manula, Sungapore, the now famuluar ports of Japan, and endung at her new home port of Long Beach, Calufornua Then followed several years of peaceful traunung, yard peruods, NROTC tours to Acapulco, Mexuco, Balboa un the Canal Zone and to the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador November of i949 marked another trup to the Far East l-ler return to the states un May of i950 was eagerly awauted by the crew sunce a long rest peruod was due l-lowever, the communust aggressuon un Korea forced her to rapudly replenush and rearm for a speedy backtrack over the now famuluar waters of the Pacufic Her first, second and thurd tours of war duty un the Far East found the TOLEDO playung an umportant role un the destructuon and harrassment of the Reds Along wuth scores of other Unuted Natuons shups operatung off the coasts of Korea, she bombarded Red shores, destroyed ammunutuon dumps, cut raul lunes, hut enemy bunkers and gun emplace ments un short, destroyed anythung of value to the Communusts The fourth tour of war duty proved a but easuer for the Bug T Wuth the cease fire un effect she was assugned the task of patrollung Korean neutral waters wuth Task Force 77 The ummunence of possuble confluct made necessary constant exercuses un fleet maneuvers, antu aurcraft firungs, and surface bombardments Traunung was the by word thus cruuse, but ut was traunung broken by frequent trups back to the ports of Japan, to lwo Juma, to Okunawa, and to Hong Kong The l-long Kong trup was an addutuonal duversuon for the crew as they watched over 250 Army men who had uouned the shup for the trup break un theur sea legs on Navy lufe On T3 Aprul '54, after tive months of tourung and traunung, the Bug T reported to Yokosuka for a few days to prepare for her return home to the states. The first day of May she tued up at a munucupal puer un Long Beach brungung to a close the fourth tour of duty un the Far East The summer months took the TOLEDO to Seattle, Washungton, as Navy representatuve to the lnternatuonal Rotary Conventuon, and to Portland, Oregon, as Navy guest at the Rose Festuval there As flagshup for Rear Admural Mauruce E Curts, Commander Cruuser Destroyer Force, US Pacufic Fleet, she took the exercuses of Task Force l2 un her stride through the latter part of July These PacTraEx exercuses were broken by a pleasant return to Seattle during part of theur annual SeaFaur celebratuon. Late August and early September agaun marked preparatuons for another tour of the Far East, thus one her fifth. On l4 September l954, she steamed out of Long Beach Harbor flyung the fiag of Rear Admural Ralph E Wulson, Commander Cruuser Duvusuon Three Her first stop was blue Pearl Harbor for . . . but thus us the story of our book . .. .. .. .. . ll lll lllu D0 u 1 X x gg .u.. - 'A A m,s , -c,,- , . - . - ll ' ll I I I I ' L, f . . A ,

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