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    Navy War Stories
    Navy War Stories
    Navy War Stories
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    Navy War Stories

    By Gary Carson

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    Memoir on being in the Navy and on the Naval Gunline in the DMZ of Vietnam during 1968. A collection of personal stories of war and the people who wage war.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGary Carson
    Release dateFeb 14, 2010
    Navy War Stories
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    Gary Carson

    I have two pbooks on poker currently in print. Both published by Lyle Stuart, The Complete Book of Hold'em Poker and The Complete Book of Casino Poker

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      Book preview

      Navy War Stories - Gary Carson

      -1Navy War Stories

      A collection of essays on being in the Navy

      Or

      On the Naval Gun Line in the DMZ of Vietnam

      by Gary Carson

      Vol. I in the War Stories series

      Copyright 2010 by Gary Carson

      All rights reserved

      Published by Broken Pine Press

      315 N. Violet

      Cushing OK, 74023

      www.brokenpinepress.com

      Publisher@brokenpinepress.com

      ISBN 978-0-9798023-0-0

      Book cover designed using www.wordle.net

      Smashwords Edition

      Version 2.0

      Published by Broken Pine Press and distributed by Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Gary Carson

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      published by Lyle Stuart and are available at bookstores everywhere

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      Navy War Stories

      PREFACE

      About this book

      Most of these stories are from over 40 years ago. That’s because the first half of 1968 was my personal time of war That’s when I was in Vietnam. Not actually in Vietnam, but on a warship, USS Hull, a United States destroyer, off the coast of Vietnam. We were certainly in Vietnamese waters, our gunfire was directed to Vietnam and the few times we were fired on the guns aimed at us were located on Vietnamese soil.

      There’s a lack of naval guns these days The gunships of old have been replaced by missile carrying frigates. Naval warfare in Vietnam was mostly divided into three parts 1.) The brown water Navy, shallow draft small boats patrolling the rivers,

      2.) an air war that was launched from carriers cruising in Yankee Station, and

      3.) the cruisers and destroyers along the gunline of the coastal waters of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

      Those cruisers and destroyers had the big guns back then, not missiles.

      Crewmembers of the USS Hull were awarded the Meritorious Unit Citation for service during our deployment in the Winter/Spring of 1968 and the Combat Action Ribbon for combat action in February, March, and May of 1968. Incoming shells came close enough to cover me with water from on explosion off our bow.

      My ship had a DD designation, which is the Navy’s way to designate that the primary weapon was guns rather than missile (DD stands for destroyer, the second D is superfluous).

      The ship operated between Cap Lay and Tiger Island, about a mile offshore on the northern edge of the DMZ. It patrolled a one mile strip (north to south) called the gunline. There were typically two destroyers and a cruiser on station, with a couple of brown water Navy swift boats south of Cap Lay.

      No Navy vessel in the gunline escaped enemy fire. We didn't lose any ships patrolling the gunline, although some ships did take direct hits and lost some sailors. The brown water Navy did lose some boats (and crews) that were patrolling the inland waters in the area.

      At one point the exchange of gunfire was so intense that the barrels on our 5 inch guns literally melted. We had to transfer

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