Photo of the week....or when we feel like it...
Yeah, click on the little pictures...
(is open)
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Plaque
commemorating C.O. Wyatt Harper CDR, 8/1/60 - 3/23/62. Building is at
Ballantyne Corporate Park, Charlotte, NC, courtesy of shipmate Mike Carpenter BM3 1970 -
1972
Thought I'd show how big a DD was compared to a battlewagon...
Travels of DD-829 from Feb 69 - Aug 72, one of it's most active
periods.
USS Fiske DD-842 in somewhat heavy seas...
Found this and added text for clarification;
don't know which destroyer; doesn't matter.
Shipmate Ron Plante ETR3 1965 - 1967 at the Lone Sailor exhibit in
Washington, DC.
CLICK HERE: Naval History Magazine article about the Do Son Peninsula bombardment and harbor mining operation in Viet Nam in 1972 and Fox's supporting role. You must have Adobe Reader to view. Go to http://adobe.com to get reader.
1. Fox in Azores in 1966 with the Norris DD-859,
2. & 3. Front /Back of Polaroid photo of Cubans fleeing the Communist Regime
found 24 miles off Key West, Fl 19 July 1966. Courtesy Mike Steck ETR3 1966 - 1967
(There's another similar photo of the refugees in Larry Smith's photo page found
over at the Members page.)
New Navy enlisted uniforms. I guess that this means there's no more "Bluejackets"
manual. Camo for what purpose exactly.... Notice that the Navy never
messes with the officer's uniforms......
February 1957 GITMO, White Hat Club, Courtesy shipmate Jim Naster ET3 1956 -
1959. Front row from l to r: Jim Naster, Ski from Radio, Phil Spier SM2. Back row from l to r: John Abbott RDSN, Walt Swindell, Ray Totten, Bill Biss.
Great two page article about the Fox from a 1975 Army publication, courtesy of
shipmate Gerry Schmit FT2 58-59.
CDR Ross Robertson Hirshfeld, USN, Commanding Officer: 2/12/53 - 7/14/54
See many more Navy Recruiting posters on the Navy
Ad page.
ScreenSaver.scr This file is 16 images of the Fox in screensaver format that you can use on your PC, for, duh!, a screensaver. Left click (unless your mouse is set backwards) and, depending on the internet browser that you have, a dialog box will show up asking what you want do with the file. Your call.
Doug Walsh GMG3 on the fantail of the Fox c. 1967.
See ASROC launching video here;
launch gear & launching identical to that on Fox 1963 - 1979. From
Greek Navy web site.
Quad 40mm gun in action from
unidentified ship in WWII; Fox had these guns through '50's.
US map with number of known shipmates in each State as of 10-31-04
Combat Gun-shoot Recordings: These mp3 audio files of the ship communicating with a spotter, firing the 5" guns during Naval Gun Fire Support mission are from Fox's 1966-1967 'round the World/Viet Nam Cruise, by shipmate Ron Plante:
NGFS #1 NGFS #2 NGFS #3
Logo at
the top of Ship's letterhead sold in ship's store from 1949 - 1963. Hi-Res copy for anyone who wants really nice
originals. This copy from RM3 Don Nettleman, but have another from GM3
Mort Hartman.
As often as stories of
imbibing mass quantities of this Cuban concoction have been told, Navy should have
named a Destroyer Division: DESDIV HATUEY.
Beer label courtesy Don Nettleman ET2. See the 1952 - 1954
Photo
Collection by clicking here.
Click on photo of Liberty Hound James Rash in Naples to see Ronald Plante's
1965 - 1967 Photo Collection.
See Photo Collection from the late shipmate Charles Robert Johnson, FT3 from 1946
by clicking on the photo.
Nope, can't click on that one. Go to a great
1950 - 1954 Photo Collection from
Mort Hartman by clicking
here.