USS Myles C Fox DD-829 Vietnam Deployment
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2013
- This is a fairly long video, but I think that you'll find it worth the view, all the way to the end. Includes 5" 38 cal gunfire, actual combat communications recordings and lots of at-sea operations, including heavy weather, upreps, hi-line and helicopter personnel transfers and sometimes just some of the crew watching what was going on.
Longest version of the videos that Carl Rectenwald GM3 produced during the 1966 - 1967 deployments during the Gemini Recovery deployment, assignment to help fight the fire aboard the M/V Palma, and the around-the-world deployment that took them to Vietnam for Combat Action.
This video incorporates actual combat audio recordings of radio communications between spotters on the ground and in the air in Vietnam and the personnel on the Fox regarding target acquisition and results.
The crew is eternally grateful to Carl Rectenwald for preserving the original 8mm film rolls and then having them digitized. Bravo Zulu, Carl!!
I was on the Fox in 1972 right after a Vietnam deployment on the U.S.S. Warrington...DD-843. The Warrington got wrecked in the Gulf of Tonkin and after a few months in Subic Bay I was re-stationed to the Fox. Newport R.I. !!
Thank you for sharing. Brought back great memories. I was on the Fox during the Cuban Missile Crisis. We just got into drydock for FRAM in Charleston, stopped everything.Evaporators constantly broke down! Old mess decks and cooking galley. Sent to GITMO and then to the Med for 9 months to play games with the Russians. Looks like Fox got FRAMed after that since I didn't see the depth charge racks etc. Plus looked like a helo pad?
Fox was FRAM'd in 1963-64 in Boston, and Depth Charge racks went away. Helo deck was for DASH, the radio controlled helicopter that carried both torpedos and nuclear depth charges. DASH was gone by 1969 when I was aboard, but was still on some other ships. Thanks for the comment!
Wow! Thanks a lot for the update and the picture!!!
+braintrusts I went aboard late '72 and the mid ships deck had an ASROC launcher aboard, aft of the gun mount the fantail was pretty well clear.
By then we mostly did picket duty on the Atlantic and went USNR in '73, home ported Brooklyn Navy Yard mostly taking the rinks out for their 2 weeks yearly duty. Mid '73 just before a Carib Cruise we hit the pier putting a massive hole in the bow to frame 6. Went up to Newport and they welded 2 plates over it. Cape Hatteras peeled 'em off like a banana skin--good bye Caribbean and hello Jacksonville dry dock where a full repair was done. Then back to picket duty and the rinks. She was a great high seas ship. OS4.
I like this video because the Fox was part of Desron 20, and we were all deployed to Viet Nam in October 1966. What is weird is seeing my ship, the USS Norris DD 859 alongside the Fox knowing that I am on the Norris at the very moment this picture was taken, it's like Wow.
+Joseph Hettel She made her final world cruise in '71-'72 I believe. I went aboard not long after she returned to the N. Atl. and Newport RI home port.
+Mark Durfee
Mark: A great place for Fox shipmates where there are over 600 men:
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MylesCFox-DD829/info