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On the 5th of December 1966, she sailed for her first tour of war duty. Her guns fired their first shot in anger on December 17th while "riding shotgun" for a motor convoy up the Vietnamese coastline. |
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On the 5th of December 1966, she sailed for her first tour of war duty. Her guns fired their first shot in anger on December 17th while "riding shotgun" for a motor convoy up the Vietnamese coastline. |
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| PROVIDENCE returned to Yokosuka in time for the Christmas holidays and the settling of recently arrived dependents. |
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Photo submitted by Colin Carnegie
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| On January 7, 1967, PROVIDENCE left Yokosuka for her second tour of Vietnam operations. Again she supported Commander 7th Fleet on a tour off Yankee Station and the First Marine Division on the gunline off the 1 Corps area of Vietnam. |
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